. Lion and dragon in northern China. days, but their courses are short andthe flood-waters are soon carried down to the winter and spring some of the streams whollydisappear, and the greatest of them becomes themerest rivulet. The traveller who approaches Weihaiwei by seafrom the east or south makes his first acquaintancewith the Shantung coast at a point about thirty miles(by sea) east of the Weihaiwei harbour. This is theShantung Promontory, the Chinese name of which isCheng Shan Tsui or Cheng Shan Tou. ChengShan is the name of the hill which forms the Promon-tory, while Tsui and Tou
. Lion and dragon in northern China. days, but their courses are short andthe flood-waters are soon carried down to the winter and spring some of the streams whollydisappear, and the greatest of them becomes themerest rivulet. The traveller who approaches Weihaiwei by seafrom the east or south makes his first acquaintancewith the Shantung coast at a point about thirty miles(by sea) east of the Weihaiwei harbour. This is theShantung Promontory, the Chinese name of which isCheng Shan Tsui or Cheng Shan Tou. ChengShan is the name of the hill which forms the Promon-tory, while Tsui and Tou (literally Mouth and Head)mean Cape or Headland. Before the Jung-chengmagistracy was founded (in 1735) this extreme easternregion was a military district like Weihaiwei. Takingits name from the Promontory, it was known as Cheng- 1 Especially some of the sea-beaches, the defiles that lie betweenYii-chia-kuang and Shang Chuang, and the valleys in which aresituated Chi-kuang, Wang-chia-kuang, Pei kou, Chang-chia-shan, andChien ^^ll^Bl -^rfjf a PL ? • -g#- • • IM I 4, t~^~e>iCfr-r/ ;».jS^fl«^8 ^tf£p^ ?t -Hi vffivfl Vfl THE PROMONTORY 19 shan-wei. Cheng Shan, with all the rest of the presentJun-cheng district, is within the British sphere ofinfluence ; that is to say, Great Britain has the rightto erect fortifications there and to station troops :rights which, it may be mentioned, have never beenexercised. The Shantung Promontory has been the scene ofinnumerable shipwrecks, for the sea there is apt to berough, fogs are not uncommon, and there are manydangerous rocks. The first lighthouse—a primitiveaffair—is said to have been erected in 1821 by a piousperson named Hsu Fu-chang; but long before that aguild of merchants used to light a great beacon fireevery night on a conspicuous part of the hill. A largebell was struck, so the records state, when the weatherwas foggy. The present lighthouse is a modernstructure under the charge of the Chinese ImperialCustoms
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