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VILLAGE LIFE In SOUTH CHINA
Described By
T. PAUL GREGORY
toil by their forefathers, aro for the- greater part neglected and well-nigh ruined by the erosive and torrential seasonal rains,
The mountain-slopes, whilst they have been terraced to a certain ex- tent, and rendered amenable to the plough, are yet better adapted for the pasturage of numerous water- buffalocs and humped Brahman eattle, of
which almost every house-
O all the tooming millions of the populous East, no people TYRE EXPENSE SAVED are more inherently a nation of farmers than the Chinese; for although the great cities of the land boast immense populations, yet the majority of the Sons of Han are, as they have been for more than forty centuries, con-- tented and self-sufficing tillers of the past, when the inhabitants eit beneath the heavenly well. Here hold possesses one or more. These the soll. The cities on the other less forcibly the restraining hand of may be found the ching-hum, lads, who regularly lead these pled- are the special charge of the younger LUP-TO-DATE PROCESS hand, especially those of the so- the military, they were wont to make stone rlee-huller (a kind of mortar in ring-nosed brusts out to
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serfs bound to the village, which they welfare of their descendants, and are countryside, there yet lurks an
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called Open Ports pullulate with villages at rival chans with the intens pink, set in a frame, and to designed ture hi the morning, and luring them all the concomitant Incongruities of pillage, slaughter and enslavement that it may be operated by pressure back at nightfall, lest they abould of quasi-Occidentalism and can of the foe. Indeed, even at the pres of the foot), and during the long n prey to either thieves or an scarcely be reconciled with the sent day there may be found amongst afternoons, and often, too, by candle- occasional tiger. The bucolic sim-
the inhabitanta In certain of the light, the womenfolk busily engage picity of this
life has N poetle charm delectable prospects of the plucid southernmost districts of the province themselves with the arduous task of about it, which has the strongest ap countryside presenting it of Kwanglung a condition of helotism bulling the garnered sheaves of South Deal to every Son of Han; and no does multitudinoua vistas of or serfdom, such as once existed in Chinn's staff of life. The t'ent how- matter how far lie mily have
these Europe. And
helots emerald paddy-fields and quaint ttai-ini as they are designated in the Inhabitants
or ever, in the ense of the wealthier advanced in the world, be he sue-
Is often
elaborately cessful merchant, famed warrior, old-world villages cnshrined rustic patois, are sold to be the off- furnished, and many well-chosen ple- learned scholar or astute diplomnt, amongst verdant, tomb-dotted spring of those prisoners of war, who fures and calligraphic scrolls are the spot that he holds most dear to hills. Moreover, one finds in were captured during the cruel and ung upon the walls, and the room is his heart is usually the little hamlet the rural portions of the country blondy clan struggles of former years. llet with a profusion of heavy, in- where he was bort, and where he Stubbs Rd,
Although, these unfortunate victims tricately carved blackwood furniture, perchance spent so many happy an almost nirvannic calm and of internecine strife have been legal- The tens also contains the ancestral childhood hours as a herd-boy, perch- pence, and the thought dawns ly tree since the establishment of the shrine, resplendent in crimson and ed upon the broad back of patient- upon one that after all, the bust. Republic in 1912, yet most of them gilt, and is the centre of the assiduously ambling water-ox and wandering
stil ling port cities with their quays, remain in their respective vil- devotions of the household: for like so carefree over the verdant hillsides,
of their the Lares and Penates of the ancient lages, apparently obvious warehouses, sheds and shops are emancipation; and their position is one Romans, the spirits of the deportelt merely the prosaic, conterminous of benign slavery, being agricultural ancestors, are ever solicitous of the such a singularly charming LONG. In loving memory of dear
to requite unmistakable sense of insecurity and Reggie, who passed away on 4th ugly and grotesque totality of an and in the preparation and serving such loyal attentions with bountiful unrest; for in almost every South December, 1032.
encroaching West-the sordid of the periodte communal feasts. harvests and manifold prosperity for China humlet loom one "He lives with us in memory still, and venal excrescences of an
the family,
battiemented Not just lu-day, but always will, alien civilisation. Furthermore,
sentinels are The Sweetest memory, fond and
strongly
of reln true, the countryside is the veritable PRACTICALLY all Chinese villages Will ever remain, dear Reggie centre of Chinese national life, appearance, and seem to be not stately banyang and graceful bam- plerced
are of a monotonous uniformity in Aca by groves of splendid conifers, or
· LMOST every village is surround- forced concrete, with walls of a
more in thickness, which are of you." and, too, has been a most potent more than a solid block of his boos, which tower in verdant majesty brasures; and
with loopholes OF -Inserted by Mum, Dad, Albert, factor in developing the much which, however, are separate
emTM Harold and Maurice,
and the solitary entrances criticised and grossly mis-under. each other by an interval of perhaps savas and pumicios, the tiny kum- In addition, many of these watch-
clustering thickets of are fitted with massive doors of iron." The dwellings are The
stood national viewpoint of the in the majority of cases windowless qu and wild raspberries, the towers are provided with acetylene.
or tiger Chinese people; for they, as a structures
therns' brick, of greyish
surmount- lo-jop-lake
(Poly- searchlights, whose rays may be
which on account of their
of spinigerous brambles, through the village and out into the circum- the nation at large, but of family, nature and the inherent dampness of ubiquitous swine, engaged in the lei-
whose tangled of
depths roum the jarent boskage. clan, province and above all the South China's climate, are variegated surely task of delving for pannage, not only as a defence against bandits. These fortaliçes have been erected natal village.
with the velutinous verdure of mose Within this encircling boskage are but also as a preparatory measure ground, and the absence of the paddy-flelds, periodically meta- against the ever-recurrent clan feuds, shallow pools of to which we have alluded, and do [NDEED, every village, contrary to tion renders them insufferably damp, morphosing from
the usual practice of other lands, a fact which is apparently unnoticed black oozy mire to virent carpets of not serve as habitations except in Is the abode of a single clan, or rare by the inmates; but as such hillary into a state of golden splendour, and such occasions, the towers are hastily been growing grain, which soon change times of impending danger. Upon ly of two, who are both more or less the prevalling mode of domiciliary Great Britain keeps step with closely united by ties of kindred, and architecture for the past two thousand then if tired of allusion, revert to provisioned, and the inhabitants pre- the world in most things, and who thus perforce abide together for years, sure to such trivial matters stubble. The entire life of the vil- both bandit and clan raids are always the inhabitarits have no doubt patches of starkly staring, denuded pure to pass the night in them; for is generally a pace of two ahend role mats are fired cut the line as ginom and dumpness and ill-ven- lage revolves around the world of conducted under the protecting vell of the crowd. There was a time habitants are consanguineous in re- Wlation. None of the dweilin; ex- its rice-fields, which are apportioned of darkness. Formerly, these when, like Sam the Soldier,lationship and theoretically, at least, ceeds a single storey, in height, unless out in narrow strips, so that each tural forays were attended with the |Britain was the only one in step-iends to generatë like interests and an the residence of some returned emi- grain for its own use. There is, pro- village, with the concomitant dolorous of common ancestral origin, which we mention a rare two-storey edifice, household has suficient space to raise pliage and burning of the captured Joe Peterson. But that was long ago, when an urbacity.of outlook, so much so that grant, who, defying tradition and the Derly speaking, no communal owner- slaughter of many of the Inhabitants: idealistic Government sought to those who reside in another homlet, influence of geomancy, has planned ship nor tenant system: for every but, nowadays, however, elan skit- lead the world in disarmament if they happen to be numbers of his house in a more exotic style, and inhabitant owns and tills the soll in- mishes when they do occur, ure and scrapped thousands of tons different clan, are often viewed with boasts of a collocation
herited from his fathers, which is usually evinced. by a seasonal ex- of eye-like
looked upon almost as of fighting craft of glorious re-
distrust; and unfo
unfortunately, too, In windows, which stare vacantly down
a sacred change of gun-fire between the charge; and
rarely
ivill 11 pra- hostile villages, and the sullen dis- cord, and much against the will some parts of southern China in the upon the roofs of the neighbouring
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slender like of one another and an unwilling- ifs province of Kwangtung, clan feuds babitations. of people who realised that frequently recur, which are always unusually plain, and would be accord-by the unforeseen
The interior of such dwellings la bolding, unless compelled to do so ness to co-operate in the develop- peace was not yet permanent.
by disturbance
ing to sionally by bloodshed.
is justly which often manifests itself in bullies To-day, however, it is fair to
These focal
com stuffy and comfortless. Light is ad regarded as a dire calamity: for a stationing themselves in the highway. feuds bear say that Britain not only keeps relation to those of Scotland during, met the skylight or tin-iscug pot_and_is_erefong_reduced_to_beg- clans from being brought to market. mitted through an aperture in the family without land speedily goes to and preventing the produce of rival step,-sets-the-pace, or what you the several centuries before the Union (heavenly wel is furnished with
well') is
gary. Somewhat remote from the will, but keeps the open mind of the Crown; but there is little ro- in matters pertaining to de- China, as the dashing shivalry of the mosaic of translucent oyster-shells is cincts of the village, are
mance about the vendettas of South zort of sliding frame in which a rice-fields, but still within the pres |fence, which are after all wild Caledonian Border, which has fitted,
and su
so designed that by a pull patches, where the women-folk grow China have a great variety; for amongst the most vital con- been immortalised by Sir Walter of a rope, it may be made to slide vegetables for the family table, and their fields, in addition to providing siderations of the time..
Scott, is entirely lacking.
opening, thus effectively for sale in the hui or market-town the omnipresent rice, supply them Of course, over the nowadays the Provincial Government providing against the emergency of of the community. Naturally, the with an abundance of vegetables; changes in the Imperial General nuts down any enmity between the this opening is found the domestic is a serious drain upon fertility; but wentais, ficcis, long pas,
the Frequeal rains. Directly beneath continual productivity of the fields and their groves yield in scuson n Staff prove the Government's disaffected clans which seems pre- well, which like the hearth in the the Chinese farmer has long since plantains, litchis, long-ans, mangoes. progressiveness, and the at- cursory of general bloodshed; but in well. FOR HER
country cottages
to offset any of England and the learned
detrimental -the frugiferous
plenitude of titude of the famous soldiers,
Continent, is the centre around which effects by the constant, liberal and Chinese orchard. The herds the veterans who have willingly
moves the daily life of the family. unstinted application of natural swine and flocks of fowls provide and FOR HIM the places of chief responsibili- any unit was not necessarily the to provide both ventilation and an cement, where, it is blended with their water-buffaloes or yellow oxen.. The doors of the house are usually fertiliser which is assiduously collect them with flesh, which miny be made way for younger men in cognised.. The senior officer of thrown opent during the day in order
rder ed and stored in reeking vats of varled by the slaughter of one of ty, speaks volumes for the oldest man in it, any more than increased volume of light; and ammoniacal excreta and
wood yet this is seldom done, unless the altered spirit of the Army, he was the strongest physically through the open portals saunter un- ashes, and allowed to ferment until animal be too old for labour in the Gone is the old, hide-bound, iron-And so the old order altered,
obtrusively the family chanticleer and is ready for use. his feathered scraglio. The freedom There is, moreover, at some dis- spare the creature that draws the fast system whereby seniority It took some of Britain's of the house that is granted to the tance from the village, a number of plough?) The rivers of the region won to command. To-day meril soldiers and sallors a long time fowls is dented, however, 10 the outlying fields, largely sterile, from teem with fish, which may be caught and ability are the first con- to recognise the potentialities in household pig, and should the latter which some impecunious peasant by all who care to take the trouble; siderations where promotion the tank and the aeroplane, ambulations poke an inquisitive snout stand of rice; but the labour of carry of the art of pisciculture, the village In the course of its indefatigable per- occasionally endeavours to coax n but as the Chinese are past musters concerned. That is as it should But finally the prejudices were within the sacred precincts, the good ing out the buckets of necessary fer- fish-pond is well-stocked with deni- overcome, and to-day the Army matron is immediately up in arms, tiliser, Is, in itself, a sumelent de- zens of the finny tribe, so that the There will be some who reis being mechanised, tanks are and with many a choo-hee and ou-yo- terrent to most of the country-folk. family, who, perchance, may tire of - bids the unlucky intruder ta
us in many districts a large the
pork and vegetable member how, during the early superseding envalry, acroplanes, depart.
tion of the male population adjuncts to its bolted 'rice, may on stages of the Great War, performing the functions of the Every house contains a parlour or has gone to the cities in search of occasion add such Lenten entremets, "regular" soldiers scoffed at the cruiser squadrons, to some ex-
a suite employment, the cultivation the as invite the gustatory appro- idea of amateura" ever distent. That was another step.
furnished rooms, which are employ lund is left largely to the efforts of bation of an
epleure. Moreover, the tinguishing themselves except The Government has even reinmales. The parlour, or teng, as it only those fields which are the most market-towns of the countryside, ed as the sleeping quarters of the the women and girls; consequently, proximity of the villages to various in obeying orders and carrying cognised the necessity of alter called, is alike the living room and accessible and fertile are filled, and affords the wealthier inhabitants an out Rome enterprise which ing the status of the Territorials, domestic workship of the household, the terraced mountain-slopes, which opportually to augment their lorders the old Army directed. and their officers can now reach as it is the best lighted, being directly were carved out with such infinite with imported delicacies, co that on There was even some doubt the highest ranks. The Direc whether the "undisciplined" and tor-General of the Territorial free-and-easy troops from the Army has been nominated a Dominions would stand up un-member of the Army Council. der fire. Those misconceptionc Closer collaboration of all de soon vanished in the bloody fence forces, Territorials, Naval welter of the Somme, the Marne, Reserve, volunteers who pursue own vocations and are Festubert, Passchendaele, Vimy, their Loos, Gallipoli, and a hundred only amateurs in the service, Is other fights where the Great the basis of the new British Untried, from London's East defence policy. It is sound..
Shanghai It's all very well to say that End and French-Canadian tim-And it will be especially appre- gossip-writer; some fair refu- everything will be alright in the ber camps, from Sydney's water-ciated by the officers and men gees have had quite a birthday long run; but how long is the front and the farms of Africa, who, ns amateur soldiers and in Hongkong. We wish them long run?
to many happy returns. did as much as the Guards could sailors have endeavoured
Should life insurance be re- do. It was in the Great War make themselves proficient in; that British generals, and the the arts of war without re Two burglars entered a local ferred to as professional or com- mercial? aska n render. We British Government, learned muneration and, all too often hotel. It is understood that
thanks-until that by merit alone are battles without
their they escaped without losing any-
thinks it's just a business, won. Seniority has nothing to hour has struck, and they have thing.
The best way to preserve do with it, though there is no had a chance to show their
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oranges is to lock them up. question that the older men had ability.
The Glasgow "Dry" Vote has
ឆ as much, often more, to offer:
In her present defence policy been over-ruled by the House of Some of the returned Shang- NorWITHSTANDING than the younger. The great Britain keeps up with the Commons.
the steady Whenever wo've hallandera way that Hongkong influx of monetary wealth from thing was that the principle of world. To many it will appear been there, it's been wat for is really on the map now.
the workers in the cities and abroad, promotion on ability was re-that she keeps a step ahead of it. days on end,
¡Atlas-ti
which is unfortunately spent not so
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abundance of food, however, Is counterbalanced by the scarelly of fuel, and yet, although the bowels of the mountaing contain coal of an excellent quality, which in some places is so near the surface that open scams of carboniferous strata are exposed, the inherent conservo- Usm of the people is so trammelling that the opening of mines has always been frowned upon; and thus, the inhabitants have had to depend upon sparse fuct obtained from their denuded hillsides, and the dried straw remaining after the rice has been threshed. Yet in splle of this defeat, the people are obviously con- tent, and as in the cas
the case of certain dls- funds from Hongkong and abroad, enables almost every household to enjoy a degree of luxury not possible to the peasantry of the northern par tion of the Chinese Republic.
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