China : a history of the laws, manners and customs of the people . XXIII.] • THRESHING AND WIXNOWING. 129 their backs towards tlie wind, and let the grain fall gentlyfrom a tray. I have often seen gleaners in Leicestershire, win-nowing the grain gleaned from the harvest-field in a mannerprecisely similar. Another mode resorted to by the Chinese, istossing up the grain with a fork against the wind. The grainundergoes a further sifting or cleansing by being tossed up onbamboo or rattan trays, and occasionally on wooden these processes of winnowing an allusifjii is evidently madein the
China : a history of the laws, manners and customs of the people . XXIII.] • THRESHING AND WIXNOWING. 129 their backs towards tlie wind, and let the grain fall gentlyfrom a tray. I have often seen gleaners in Leicestershire, win-nowing the grain gleaned from the harvest-field in a mannerprecisely similar. Another mode resorted to by the Chinese, istossing up the grain with a fork against the wind. The grainundergoes a further sifting or cleansing by being tossed up onbamboo or rattan trays, and occasionally on wooden these processes of winnowing an allusifjii is evidently madein the first Psalm, where we read that the ungodly arc likethe chaff which the wind driveth away; and in the book ofIsaiah (xxx. 24), where it is predicted, as a feature of the pro-sperity which is promised, that the oxen likewise, and theyoung asses that ear the ground, shall eat clean provender,which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the , in the book of Jeremiah (iv. 11, 12), we find thefolloAving allusion to the same process—At that time sha
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