The Kingdom of the Yellow Robe: Being Sketches of the Domestic and Religious Rites and Ceremonies of the SiameseYoung, Ernest
Religion
The Kingdom of the Yellow Robe: Being Sketches of the Domestic and Religious Rites and Ceremonies of the Siamese
Young, Ernest
Thailand -- Religious life and customs; Thailand -- Social life and customs
Chinese Guilds--Hong-kong--Native
Boats--Shopkeepers--Artists--Music Halls.
" III. THE CHINAMAN ABROAD AND AT HOME (_continued_).
Gambling--Typhoons--The floating population of
Hong-kong--North branch of the Pearl River.
" IV. CANTON AND KWANG-TUNG PROVINCE.
Tea--Foreign Hongs and Houses--Schroffing.
" V. CANTON (_continued_).
Its general appearance--Its population--Streets--Mode of
transacting business--Signboards--Work and Wages--The
willow-pattern bridge--Juilin, Governor-General of the two
Kwang--Clan fights--Hak-kas--The mystic pills--Dwellings of
the poor--The Lohang-tang--Buddhist monastic life--On board
a junk.
" VI. CANTON (_continued_). MACAO. SWATOW. CHAO-CHOW-FU--AMOY.
The charitable institutions of China--Macao--Description
of the town--Its inhabitants--Swatow--Foreign
settlement--Chao-chow-fu--Swatow
fan-painters--Modellers--Chinese art--Village
warfare--Amoy--The native quarter--Abodes of the
poor--Infanticide--Manure-pits--Human remains in
jars--Lekin--Romantic scenery--Ku-lang-su--The foreign
settlement.
" VII. FORMOSA.
Takow harbour, Formosa--La-mah-kai--Difficulties
of navigation--Tai-wan-fu--The Taotai--His
yamen--How to cancel a state debt--The Dutch in
1661--Sylvan lanes--Medical Missions--A journey to
the interior--Old watercourses--Broken land--Hak-ka
settlers--Poahbe--Pepohoan village--Baksa valley--The name
"Isla Formosa"--A long march--The central mountains--Bamboo
Bridges--"Pau-ah-liau" village--The physician at
work--Ka-san-po village--A wine-feast--Interior of
a hut--Pepohoan dwellings--A savage dance--Savage
hunting-grounds--La-lung village--Return journey.
" VIII. FOOCHOW AND THE RIVER MIN.
The Japanese in Formosa--Cause of the invasion--The
River Min--Foochow Arsenal--Chinese gunboats--Foochow
city and great bridge--A City of the dead--Its
inhabitants--Beggars--Thieves--Lepers--Ku-shan
Monastery--The hermit--Tea plantation on Paeling
hills--Voyage up the Min--Shui-kow--An up-country
farm--Captain Sheng and his spouse--Yen-ping
city--Sacrificing to the dead--Shooting the Yen-ping rapids
A Native passenger-boat.
" IX. SHANGHAI. NINGPO. HANKOW. THE YANGTSZE.
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