The face of China, travels in East, North, Central and Western China; with some account of the new schools, universities, missions, and the old religious sacred places of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism . rnedout to be a sort of entertainment given by a cashshop next door, and not only was there a very be-draggled-looking dragon about twenty feet long, butalso fish lanterns and sundry fireworks. The mencarrying the sections of the dragon leapt about likedemons as the shower of golden rain (fireworks)was turned full upon them, and the dragon writhedwith unwonted energy. The drums never cease
The face of China, travels in East, North, Central and Western China; with some account of the new schools, universities, missions, and the old religious sacred places of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism . rnedout to be a sort of entertainment given by a cashshop next door, and not only was there a very be-draggled-looking dragon about twenty feet long, butalso fish lanterns and sundry fireworks. The mencarrying the sections of the dragon leapt about likedemons as the shower of golden rain (fireworks)was turned full upon them, and the dragon writhedwith unwonted energy. The drums never ceasedfor a moment, so that it was rather a relief when theshow came to an end by the exhaustion of the internalillumination of the dragon. We were stopping atan inn just outside the city wall, and when we leftthe next morning we crossed a fine suspension-bridgewith an imposing archway at each end of it. Thechief magistrate of the district happened to be travel-ling on the same road with us, and sent word aheadthat we were to be accommodated in a charminginn that day, having invited us to stop at his Yamenin the city the previous night. When magistrates are travelling they always send to engage an inn 228. ch. xx Yilnnan Fu beforehand, and a little official flag is then hung out-side to show that the inn is full. Mr. Ku suggestedthat we should go in for an official flag, but we fearedlest complications should arise. The fresh New Year mottoes put up on the door-posts of our room stated encouragingly that allcultured people inhabit this room, and the court-yard is full of chairs and carts, but, true to Chineseincongruity, our coolies filled one of the rooms andthe pigs occupied the background ! Day after day new flowers and birds appear onour pathway—white camellias, daphne, dog-roses, aflight of brilliant green parrots, long-tailed tits, sea-gulls ; though what they are doing out here wecannot imagine. At one village where we spent anight the magistrate sent word that the people w
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