RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1974 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/x633mp077 88 G. J. BELL his death also carried his last paper on this subject (and one on atmospheric electricity). When receiving weather reports by radio from ships near the central regions of typhoons he noticed (1925) that radio communication was relatively undisturbed by atmospherics—the crackles and bangs due to lightning discharges. This point was not really appreciated by others until the post-war years when it was found that tropical cyclones could not be reliably tracked with equipment designed to locate lightning flashes (sferics equipment). Some typhoons do contain thunderstorms—they can be almost continuous in the eye wall—but others have none. The reasons for this variable behaviour have not yet been adequately explained. During the war years Fr Gherzi noticed coincidences between certain characteristics of the ionosphere and the air mass prevailing around the sounding station. He considered that the events were not unrelated and went on to use the association as an aid to weather forecasting (1946, 1950). Unfortunately, the matter has proved more complicated than Fr Gherzi implies in his papers and the method has not been adopted for general use. INTERNATIONAL METEOROLOGICAL INTERESTS In the Annual Report of the Director, Royal Observatory, Hong Kong for 1927, Mr Claxton wrote: 'Father Gherzi of the Zikawei Observatory, after patient experiments and with the utmost goodwill, has recently inaugurated a short-wave broadcast service by which we obtained at 9 hr 45 min the 6 hr observations from seven stations from the Yangsi and North China. The thanks of all concerned are due to Fr Gherzi for these valuable observations'. By personally receiving the Morse signals from ships and other countries Fr Gherzi helped to maintain good communication standards in the region; he would send terse, admonitory notes to wireless operators or meteorological services who did not follow good practices or keep to schedules. His Observatory was represented at the very first regional meeting of Directors of weather services which was held at Hong Kong in 1930 to decide on codes for signalling tropical cyclones and transmitting weather reports. Subsequently, in April 1934, Fr Gherzi and Mr Jeffries, Director of the Royal Observatory, Hong Kong travelled to Manila together to decide, with the Director of the Manila Observatory Fr M. Selga, on standardised storm warning procedures. Fr Gherzi also attended the ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1980 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/kh04md207 210 CAROLE MORGAN terms to define. It has three different meanings: 1) It refers to the centre of a burial site, in other words, to the area enclosed by the two sides of the semi-circle. 2) It is used for xue (which see). 3) It may refer to the slope of the land. Since long has so many meanings it is usually qualified by another term; thus: #shanlong which refers to any knoll, hill or mountain on the site. It is itself qualified by the adjectives: huo ★, living; si ♯, dead; zhen, true; and jia, false; all of which refer to the nature of the shanlong. ★ shuilong refers to any depression which occurs on the site. *sha refers to the topography of the land on either side of the long. Since these basic terms are often confused—the xue of one school being the long of another—the point to remember about them is that they all refer to the physical nature of a site. The next series of terms refers to different areas of a site. A tai is the spot where the yangqi No 4, of the mountains comes into contact with the yinqi, of the plain. tang refers to the flat ground in front of the central long. Tang is subdivided into antang ★★ which indicates the centre, and mingtang ♬ † which describes the areas to the right and left of the antang. chao refers to the flat ground in front of the antang. diwu is any feature visible from the long such as trees, rocks, walls, houses, roads, etc. When selecting a site water is also vitally important; literally so since the direction of its flow influences the number of sons born into a family. From a purely practical point of view, good drainage is essential to prevent water seeping into a grave and making the ancestors uncomfortable: were that to occur they would cease to promote the family's prosperity. Of the many water-related terms only four need to be listed here. ** shuilu refers to the direction of the water's flow. ★ zhengqiao wei is the name of the point where water enters a site. xiaoshui is flowing water. nashui refers to areas where water may accumulate. | I ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1996 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/3n209j641 HUNAN KANGSI Tems Jung Fal Tsang Shink Pok Lo Kwal Shin Link Ch Wes! Size Wu Shiu Hing San Hing Ping HDA + Yeung +0 + Less than 50 males born at 50-250 males born at 250-1000 males born at Over 1000 males born at Provincial boundaries → HÀNG KẺ NG FUKEN 38 Table 13 Places of Birth Outside New Territories 1911 & 1921 Censuses Miles 50 100 150 200 However, upon closer inspection, it appears that the original text is a mix of a table and a map legend. Here is a reformatted version in Markdown: ## Table 13 Places of Birth Outside New Territories 1911 & 1921 Censuses | Location | |-----------------| | HUNAN | | KANGSI | | Tems | | Jung Fal | | Tsang Shink | | Pok Lo | | Kwal | | Shin | | Link Ch | | Wes! | | Size Wu | | Shiu | | Hing | | San Hing | | Ping | | HDA | | + Yeung | | +0 | | Category | |---------------------------| | Less than 50 males born at | | 50-250 males born at | | 250-1000 males born at | | Over 1000 males born at | * Provincial boundaries ### Legend | Distance | |----------| | 50 | | 100 | | 150 | | 200 | It seems more likely that the original text is a mix of a table and a map, so a more accurate representation would be: HUNAN KANGSI Tems Jung Fal Tsang Shink Pok Lo Kwal Shin Link Ch Wes! Size Wu Shiu Hing San Hing Ping HDA + Yeung +0 Less than 50 males born at 50-250 males born at 250-1000 males born at Over 1000 males born at Provincial boundaries → HÀNG KẺ NG FUKEN 38 Table 13 Places of Birth Outside New Territories 1911 & 1921 Censuses Miles 50 100 150 200 However, the most accurate representation in HTML, following the original instructions, is the first response. To better represent the content, I will provide it in HTML format as requested: HUNAN KANGSI Tems Jung Fal Tsang Shink Pok Lo Kwal Shin Link Ch Wes! Size Wu Shiu Hing San Hing Ping HDA + Yeung +0 + Less than 50 males born at 50-250 males born at 250-1000 males born at Over 1000 males born at Provincial boundaries → HÀNG KẺ NG FUKEN 38 Table 13 Places of Birth Outside New Territories 1911 & 1921 Censuses Miles 50 100 150 200 ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-2003 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/2v242g390 219 Luoyang at Binglingsi (where a ferry took Silk Road travellers across the Yellow River) also shows influence from further west, this time from Gandhara (see below). These caves date from around 420. Indian influence was significant too in the magnificent complex of four hundred and ninety-two caves at Dunhuang, 'the art gallery in the desert', nearly fifteen hundred kilometres (as the crow flies) northwest of Chang'an. The practice arose at Dunhuang of travellers making offerings for a safe trip as they set off into the Taklamakan desert, or for a safe return, in the form of commissioning Buddhist devotional cave paintings. Dunhuang also became a monastic centre, particularly flourishing after the great fair at Zhangye (nine hundred kilometres northwest of Chang'an) in 609, which was sponsored and attended by the Chinese Emperor Yangdi. Among those who travelled to attend this fair were people from twenty-seven different nations, according to Tucker. This indicates the greater freedom of travel established by this period, and it is not surprising that Gandharan influence is to be seen in Dunhuang's paintings, although Tucker argues that their style is distinctively Chinese. Clearly, by the time of the Zhangye fair, the Silk Road was thriving. By then, Xinjiang Province (meaning 'New Dominion') had been firmly in Chinese hands for four centuries. The roaming hordes of nomads that had formerly menaced travellers on the routes through the Province had been brought to heel by Chinese military control and lines of forts extended west into the desert beyond Dunhuang. One of the most important power groups beyond the Taklamakan desert with which the Chinese had established good relations beginning with Wudi's efforts in 105 BCE was the Kushan Empire (c. 2nd century BCE to 3rd century AD), the territory of which straddled the Pamirs and the Hindu Kush, and is now occupied by Afghanistan, northern Pakistan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan. It had been established by a formerly nomadic tribe, the Yuezhi, which had settled after fleeing west from the nomadic Xiongnu. The Kushan Empire, with its provinces of Bactria and Gandhara, was the primary nexus of cross-cultural interaction along the Silk Road, straddling as it did the mountains and passes between the Indian subcontinent, Central Asia, Persia, and the plains and great river valleys draining northwest into Europe. It was in the Kushan cities of Peshawar (now in Pakistan) and Mathura (India), where magnificent schools of art emerged that blended western and eastern influences and that, in turn, spread further east into China. For example, in what is now the north of Pakistan, then known as Gandhara, Greek sculpture strongly influenced statues of ================================================================================