. Pictorial history of China and India; comprising a description of those countries and their inhabitants. r assurance; but if our kind and indulgent readerswill fancy all sorts of monosyllables, such as hvvang, tee, sun, hung, loo, foo,yin, fan, quel, &c., each word being sung to two notes, they will be able toform some idea of the words of a Chinese song, and the pleasing effect pro-duced on the oral organ of an American by the same. MUSIC AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. 319 AIRS FOR THE HWANG-TEL OR HEANG-TEL 1. #-#—P--# m P i SE^S ^^ • -# \ h—Fi^ W=K ? ^ ^—T- S ^ » _ ^ »- :P=^ -•—^ i^^=j=M=^ jt g
. Pictorial history of China and India; comprising a description of those countries and their inhabitants. r assurance; but if our kind and indulgent readerswill fancy all sorts of monosyllables, such as hvvang, tee, sun, hung, loo, foo,yin, fan, quel, &c., each word being sung to two notes, they will be able toform some idea of the words of a Chinese song, and the pleasing effect pro-duced on the oral organ of an American by the same. MUSIC AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. 319 AIRS FOR THE HWANG-TEL OR HEANG-TEL 1. #-#—P--# m P i SE^S ^^ • -# \ h—Fi^ W=K ? ^ ^—T- S ^ » _ ^ »- :P=^ -•—^ i^^=j=M=^ jt g . a »- t:: ^t^ tii ^^^ IV—• y 1-— I J —»-*—h—*H F-# -^-^ -• ^—I— ^e —-—^-f^- ^F=£:-^^^ ft-m i^mp; ^J: g. ri-ff 1 *j*-^^ =3 -fi ^—9—0- ^^^m ^ ^ S^E^ :;?=? ^ -^ 0pf^0 (t-0- n—0-^ ^^g=^i^4i^--U^-v=^==l—F—»- ^—h Vt H«—# -g—p: :*^_3t: :;^=^a=^ ijizc ^ ^i 320 CHINA, HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE. CHAPTER XXIII. MANNERS, CUSTOMS, AND GENERAL CONDITIONS OF THE Gurlfu-r^cone of one of tlie VVealthi t Class. HE liabits of social life in China, as far as they areyet known to us, are as peculiar to the inhabitants ofthat country, as their political institutions, their reli-gion, or their literature; and although not destituteof refinement, they present a striking contrast toZ those of any other existing nation. In the many^^> allusions that have already been made, in the pre-ceding pages, to the manners and customs of thissingular people, it must have appeared that it is not the difference betweencivilization and barbarism that distinguishes the Chinese of the presentage from their contemporaries, but it is the more remarkable dissimilaritybetween ancient and modern civilization, which marks them as a nationbelonging: to other times. MANNERS AND CUSTOMS. 321 To speak of the Chinese as a rude or uninformed race, would be quite aserroneous as to style them a higiily-civilized people — a term that can onlybe applied wit
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