. New China and old : personal recollections and observations of thirty years. member noticing such schools in Chinsnative plain, every corner of which I have visited. Theability and character of the masters in these schoolswill depend a great deal on the amount of the endow-ment. One of the first acts of persecution, described inmy fifth chapter, was the expulsion of all Christian boysfrom the ancient endowed schools of the village. Therewere two such in this comparatively small place (GreatValley Stream i) with scarcely 600 inhabitants. At last, when about nineteen years of age. Chin YungLin
. New China and old : personal recollections and observations of thirty years. member noticing such schools in Chinsnative plain, every corner of which I have visited. Theability and character of the masters in these schoolswill depend a great deal on the amount of the endow-ment. One of the first acts of persecution, described inmy fifth chapter, was the expulsion of all Christian boysfrom the ancient endowed schools of the village. Therewere two such in this comparatively small place (GreatValley Stream i) with scarcely 600 inhabitants. At last, when about nineteen years of age. Chin YungLing competes for his first degree. The competitivecivil examinations of China were instituted by Taitsung Or Great Waters Meet. 26o Language and Literature. in the Tang dynasty, about the year 600, and asimilar system has been adopted by the present dynasty,for the supply of officers for the army. Such officerscan gain the degrees of Siit-tsai, and Kyu-jin; but thesubjects of examination are not, as we should havesupposed, engineering, fortification, gunnery, or Archery Practice. The nation which discovered and adopted the use ofgunpowder long before the roar of artillery was heardin Europe, makes no mention of such methods in hercompetitive system. Trials in archery, on foot or onhorseback ; and trials of strength in brandishing heavyswords, and putting heavy weights, constituted, till quiterecently, the only subjects for competition. Now, how- The First Degree. 261 ever, both artillery and musketry drill and practice arecontinually going on in garrison towns ; and before longsuch subjects, at any rate, if not the higher branches ofthe art of war, will invade the old routine; even asWestern science is threatening to disturb the far moreancient and time-honoured routine of the civil examina-tions. The examinations for the first degree of Siu-tsai(or flowering talent) are twofold; the first, a kind oflittle go, is held before the district magistrate (in cas
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