. Lion and dragon in northern China. alled the Huan-tsui-lou, theview from which has for centuries past been muchpraised by the local bards. It was built in the Mingdynasty by a military official named Wang, as a spotfrom which he might observe the sunrise and enjoythe sea view. From here can be seen, at favourabletimes, a locally-celebrated mirage (called by theChinese a market in the ocean) over and beyondthe little islet of Jih-tao or Sun Island, which liesbetween Liukungtao and the mainland. The viewfrom this tower is very pleasing, though one need notbe prepared to endorse the ecstatic wo
. Lion and dragon in northern China. alled the Huan-tsui-lou, theview from which has for centuries past been muchpraised by the local bards. It was built in the Mingdynasty by a military official named Wang, as a spotfrom which he might observe the sunrise and enjoythe sea view. From here can be seen, at favourabletimes, a locally-celebrated mirage (called by theChinese a market in the ocean) over and beyondthe little islet of Jih-tao or Sun Island, which liesbetween Liukungtao and the mainland. The viewfrom this tower is very pleasing, though one need notbe prepared to endorse the ecstatic words of a senti-mental captain from the Wen-teng camp, who closeda little poem of his own with the words Howentrancing is this fair landscape : this must indeed beFairyland ! Many of the most conspicuous hills in the northernportion of the Territory can be seen to advantagefrom the Huan-tsui-lou. The small hill immediatelybehind the city wall and the tower is the 1 See pp. 53 and 36. 8 Shan is the Chinese word for HILLS OF WEIHAIWEI 31 Like many other hills in the neighbourhood and alongthe coast, it possesses the remains of a stone-builtbeacon-tumulus (feng tun), on which signal fires werelighted in the old days of warfare. To the northwardlie Ku-mo Shan, the hill of Yao-yao, and Tiao-woShan, all included in the range that bears in theBritish map the name of Admiral Fitzgerald. The highest point of the range is described in thelocal chronicle as a solitary peak, seldom visited byhuman foot, though it is nowadays a common ob-jective for European pedestrians, and also, indeed,for active Chinese children. The height is barely onethousand feet above sea-level. Tiao-wo Shan and aneighbouring peak called Sung Ting Shan were re-sorted to by hundreds of the inhabitants of Weihaiweias a place of refuge from the bands of robbers anddisorganised soldiers who pillaged the homes andfields of the people during the commotions whichmarked the last year of the Ming dynasty
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