. New China and old : personal recollections and observations of thirty years. Love of Flowers. ji hold the kite-string in one hand, and their long tobacco-pipes in the other. The monotony of the uneventful lives of Chinesebusiness people and artisans is broken only by somebirth or death in the family, or by the advent of theirfavourite flowers. Each month has its special Kite Flying. To enumerate only one in Hangchows calendar, andbeginning with February, in the early days oi whichthe Chinese New Years day usually falls, we have thecamellia, the apricot, the peach-blossom, roses, the
. New China and old : personal recollections and observations of thirty years. Love of Flowers. ji hold the kite-string in one hand, and their long tobacco-pipes in the other. The monotony of the uneventful lives of Chinesebusiness people and artisans is broken only by somebirth or death in the family, or by the advent of theirfavourite flowers. Each month has its special Kite Flying. To enumerate only one in Hangchows calendar, andbeginning with February, in the early days oi whichthe Chinese New Years day usually falls, we have thecamellia, the apricot, the peach-blossom, roses, the redpomegranate, the lotus, the balsam, the Ouey Hwa, orOlea Fragrans (an evergreen shrub, which clusters its 72. An Inland City. twigs with small golden or silver flowers with fragrancespecially grateful and delicious after the heat and evilodours of the summer); then the aster and chrysanthe-mum, the hibiscus, the lammay or wax almond, a veryfragrant flower which gleams often through the snows ofDecember and January; and finally, the white and pinkvarieties of the double almond or apricot, which opens andbreathes its sweet smell at the end of January.^ Sprigsof these flowers in the shops of the industrious Chinese,cheer and refresh them, and make life less monotonous. (4) Christianity is to a great extent tacitly acquiescedin as a feature now of the daily life of Hangcho
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