The Middle Kingdom, Volume 1 (of 2) / A Survey of the Geography, Government, Literature, Social Life, Arts, and History of the Chinese Empire and its Inhabitants

by S. Wells Williams

[377] Memoir of Dr. Morrison, Vol. II., p. 142.

[378] Chinese Chrestomathy, Chap. V., Sec. 12, p. 182. This phrase is the origin of the word chinchin, so often heard among the Chinese.

[379] Compare the China Review, Vol. IV., p. 400.

[380] Chinese Repository, Vol. XV., p. 433. Book of Records, Part V., Book X., Legge’s translation; also Medhurst’s and Gaubil’s translations.

[381] Nevius, China and the Chinese, pp. 399-408.

[382] A like custom existed among the Hebrews, now continued in the modern mezuzaw. Deut. vi. 9. Jahn’s Archæology, p. 38.

[383] Presbyterian Missionary Chronicle, 1846.

[384] Compare Morrison’s Dictionary under Tsung; Doolittle, Social Life, Vol. II., pp. 55-60; Notes and Queries on China and Japan, Vol. II., p. 157.

[385] Gray’s China (Vol. II., p. 273) contains a cut of a mat theatre from a native drawing. See also Doolittle, Social Life, Vol. II., pp. 292-299.

[386] Chinese as They Are, p. 114.