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 . the plainin which Chengtu is situated. It is about ninety milesin length by forty broad, and has been well describedas a garden. Colonel Manifold estimates that it con-tains a population of 1700 to the square mile, andthere are seventeen cities in it. The old familiar groanof wheelbarrows greeted our ears once more, thoughthe type is slightly different here from that of Shan-tung ; they ar
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 . the plainin which Chengtu is situated. It is about ninety milesin length by forty broad, and has been well describedas a garden. Colonel Manifold estimates that it con-tains a population of 1700 to the square mile, andthere are seventeen cities in it. The old familiar groanof wheelbarrows greeted our ears once more, thoughthe type is slightly different here from that of Shan-tung ; they are much smaller and only accommodateone person, or (as we frequently saw) one fat pig, lyingon his back, with his legs in the air. The seat isimmediately behind the wheel, and it looks decidedlycomic to see a woman, wearing tight pink trousers,with a leg cocked jauntily on either side of the wheel. In this part of the country we passed throughvillages much more frequently, and the people had abusier air. There are markets held every few days inone or other of the villages, so that we continually metpeople coming from them laden with their kept passing us on the road wearing paper caps 158. ch. xiv S%echwan High-roads over their hats, and on inquiry we learnt that this wasdone to preserve their pristine freshness. The fieldswere full of people weeding, and they looked verycomfortable, seated on their little stools, and withwarming-pans between their feet ; for it was the weekbefore Christmas, and the weather was growing minute kind of care the peasants here give to theircrops is most interesting, each individual plant in afield being carefully attended to and manured. Eachmember of a family seems to share in the toil and tohave implements suited to his or her size, some of themthe cutest little weapons imaginable. The peoplelook well fed and attended to, but their clothing is oftena network of rags, and their houses are singularly darkand forbidding. If there
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