[Chinese words that appear in the text of this book and in the index have been given their Pekingese sounds in accordance with Wade's system of transliteration.—R.F.J.]
Aberdeen (Hongkong), Scare at, [366]
Aboriginal tribes of Shantung, [38] seq.
Aden, Weihaiwei compared with, [17]
Adiantifolia Salisburia, [168], [381]
Administration of Weihaiwei, [7]-[9], [28], [80] seq., [429] seq.
Adoption of heirs, [151], [203], [205], [231], [284] seq.
Africa, Suicide of Widows in, [225]
Agriculture, [16], [56], [79], [90], [91], [153]-[4], [164], [166], [180] seq.
Ai-shan-ch'ien (village), [54]
Ai-shan Miao (temple), [54] (1), [385]-[6]
Alceste, H.M.S., [1], [156]
Allen, Grant, quoted, [251], [287] (2), [319], [365] (1), [379] (5), [384]
Amitabha Buddha, [404]
Amputations, Chinese superstitions regarding, [281]
Ancestor-worship, [119], [126], [134]-[5], [186]-[7], [192], [196], [251]-[2], [258] seq., [263], [276] seq., [301] seq., [318] seq., [328] seq., [331] seq., [342]
Ancestral spirits not malevolent, [286]-[7], [341] seq.
Ancestral tablets, [135], [236]-[7], [277] seq., [277]-[9], [282] seq., [339]-[40]
Anhui, Province of, [334]
Annals, Chinese official, of Weihaiwei and neighbourhood, [26], [35]-[6], [37], [46], [52] seq., [56], [58], [59] seq., [168]-[9], [289] seq., [300], [362]-[3], [390]-[1], [402]
Appeal Court of Weihaiwei, [100]-[1]
Armadas sent against Japan, [44]-[5]
Arnold, Matthew, quoted, [329]
Ashtoreth, Moon-goddess of Hittites, [191] (4)
Aston, Dr., quoted, [319], [341], [373], [388]
Astronomical knowledge in early China, [40] seq., [59] seq.
Australia, Folk-lore of, [299]
Aztecs, [420]
Barbarians of eastern Shantung, [38] seq., [42]
Barnes, Lt.-Col., [83]
Barton, Mr. S., [79]
Bat'uru, a Manchu military distinction, [71]
Beacon-fires, [19]
Beehive tombs, [257]-[8]
Bernard, Mr. E. R., quoted, [308] (footnote)
Betrothals, [203] seq.
Bishop, Mrs., cited, [377] (2)
Black's Folk-Medicine quoted, [287]-[8], [291] (1), [375] (1), [377]
Bohemia, Folk-lore of, [298]-[9], [376] (1), [382]
Bower, H.M., cited, [379] (5)
Box, Rev. A., quoted, [180] (3), [183] (2), [185] (3), [366] (1), [371] (1), [377] (1)
Boy Scouts of the Weihaiwei School, [90]
Brenan, Byron, quoted, [15] (1)
Bridge to Fairyland, [21]-[3]
Brigands, [55], [60], [62], [90]
British and Chinese officials, Relations between, [87]-[9]
British Columbia, Betrothal customs in, [206]
British rule at Weihaiwei, [1] seq., [7]-[9], [77] seq.
Brooms, Demons afraid of, [190] (1), [296]
Bruce, Major (now Lt.-Col.), [83]
Buddha, Images of, [397], [400]-[2], [406]
Buddhism, [10], [334], [351], [352], [357], [381], [398] seq.
Burial customs, [6]-[7], [254] seq., [276] seq., [367]
Burial-grounds, [135], [254]-[75]
Burial of evoked souls without the body, [281] seq.
Burial of the living, [225], [274], [367]
Burma, [156] (2)
"Burning of the Books," [20]
Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy quoted, [164]
Caird, Edward, quoted, [329]
Canal suggested at Shantung Promontory, [19]
Canonisation of saints and deities, [335], [337], [338] seq.
Canton, [421]
Capital, Foreign, in China, [446]-[7]
Carlyle, Thomas, quoted, [328]
Cats, Beliefs regarding, [292]-[4]
Ceylon, [80]
Chang-chia-shan (village), [18], [382], [398]
Ch'ang-fêng (village), [97]
Ch'ang-kuang prefecture, [44]
Chao-shih-shan (hill), [21]
Character of people of Weihaiwei, [168] seq.
Charities in China, [70], [73]-[4]
Charms, [173]-[4], [187], [188], [194], [198], [346], [358]
Chatterton Hill, G., quoted, [224], [306] (1)
Chefoo, [14], [24], [78], [426]
Chemulpo, [14]
Chên-jên of Taoism, [355]
Chêng-ch'i Shan, see Mount Macdonald
Ch'êng Huang (city god), [364]-[71]
Ch'êng-shan-tsui, see Shantung Promontory
Ch'êng-shan-wei, [46] seq., [51], [53], [63]
Chi-ming-tao ("Cock-crow Island"), [25], [52]
Chi-t'ien (sacrificial land), [122], [135], [258]-[9]
Chiang-chia-chai (village), [158]
Chih-hui, [47] seq., [70]
Children of Weihaiwei, [129], [179], [183]-[4], [245]-[53]
Chin dynasty, [59]
China's Millions (missionary journal), [316]-[7], [336]
Chinan-fu (capital of Shantung), [407]
Chinese drama, [130] seq.
Chinese Regiment, The, [28], [82]-[7]
Ching-hai-wei, [53]
Ching-wei (a mythical bird), [38]
Ch'i Ch'ung-chin, [70]
Ch'i K'uang (village), [18]
Ch'i, State of, [17], [42] seq.
Ch'iao-t'ou (village), [14], [53], [129]
Ch'ien-hu, [47]
Ch'ien Li-k'ou (village), [18]
Ch'ien Lung, Reign of, [65]
Ch'in dynasty, [20], [43]
Ch'in Shih Huang-ti (the "First Emperor"), [20] seq., [42], [43]
Ch'ing dynasty, [62]
Ch'ing Chou (one of the nine provinces of Yü), [39]
Ch'ing-chou-fu, [407]
Ch'ing-fêng-t'êng, a Chinese medicinal herb, [177]
Ch'ing-ming Festival, [70], [185]-[7], [255]-[6]
Cho-ch'i Shan, see Mount Macdonald
Chou dynasty, [20], [43]
Christendom, Pagan survivals in, [182] seq., [186]
Christianity, [104], [157], [302]-[3], [305] seq., [314] seq., [333], [407], [412],
and see Missionaries
Christian Science, [176]
Chronicles, Chinese, see Annals
Chrysanthemum wine, [192]
Chuang Tzŭ (Chinese philosopher), [351] (1), [354]
Ch'un Ch'iu (the "Spring and Autumn Annals"), [34]
Ch'ü Yüan (ancient statesman of Ch'ü), [188]
Cicero quoted, [174] (4)
Cinderella of the British Empire, The, [2]
City-god, [364]-[71],
and see Ch'êng Huang
Civil authority, Chinese respect for, [47], [434]-[6]
Civil Service of Weihaiwei, [97]-[101]
Climate of Weihaiwei, [28], [63], [81]-[2]
Club, United Services, at Weihaiwei, [25]
Coffins, [121], [290]-[1]
Coffin-nails, Superstitions regarding, [290]-[1]
Coffin-wood, Chinese and other superstitions regarding, [290]-[1]
Cold Food, Festival of, [185]-[6]
Comets, [59], [62], [63], [65], [66], [67]
Commercial probity of Chinese, [138]
Commissioner of Weihaiwei, [28], [79], [80], [81], [98]
Concubinage in China, [169], [214] seq.
"Confucian Pencil," [31]
Confucianism, [10], [11], [109], [116], [123], [300]-[50], [434]-[6], [449],
and see Confucius
Confucianism not unreligious but untheological, [330]
Confucius, [11], [34]-[5], [42], [271], [272], [300], [301] seq., [311] seq., [321], [324] seq., [347], [352]-[4], [430], [449],
and see Confucianism
Conservatism of Weihaiwei, [6]-[11]
Convention relating to Weihaiwei, [2], [29]-[30], [57], [77]-[8], [428]
Conybeare, F. C., quoted, [320] (2)
Cook, A. B., cited, [378] (2)
Corpses, Superstitions regarding, [292] seq., [295] seq.
County Folk-lore quoted, [176] (1), [179] (1), [180] (3), [291] (1), [294], [379], [386] (1), [387](2)
Courtesy of Orientals, [169] seq.
Cox, Rev. Sir G. W., quoted, [374]
Crime and lawlessness, Comparative freedom from, [87], [99], [158] seq., [434]-[5]
Cross-roads, Superstitions regarding, [376]-[7]
Currency question, [443] seq.
Cypress trees, [262], [263], [264],
and see Evergreen trees
Dalny, [14] (footnote)
Davenport's China from Within quoted, [316] (2), [336] (1)
Davis, O. K., quoted, [348]
Davis, Sir John, quoted, [331]
Davison, Charles, quoted, [67] (1)
Dead, Festivals of the, [191], [192], [292], [369]
Dead, Marriages of the, [6], [204] seq.
Dead men and ghost-lore, [276] seq.
Deer in Weihaiwei, [166]
Dennys's Folk-lore of China quoted, [27], [175] (2), [177] (1), [191] (4), [287] (2), [291] (1), [292] (2), [294] (1), [377] (1), [380](2)
Devils, [173] seq.
Devonshire folk-lore, [291] (1)
Diodorus Siculus quoted, [402] (1)
District headmen, [95], [156], [289]
District magistracies, [15] seq., [53]
District Officer's Department, [53], [54], [97],
and see Wên-ch'üan-t'ang and South Division
Divisions, North and South, of Weihaiwei, [97]-[8], [104], [114] seq., [129]
Dog, Heavenly, [174]
Dogs, Superstitions regarding, [292]-[3]
Doolittle's Social Life of the Chinese cited, [291] (1)
Dorward, Maj.-Gen. Sir A., [79]
Douglas, Sir Robert, quoted, [104], [312], [313], [352] (2), [387] (3)
Dragon, Chinese, [36], [37], [385]-[91],
and see Lung Wang
Drama in China, [130] seq.
Driver, Prof. S. R., [365] (1)
Drought-demon, [295]-[9]
Droughts, [16], [52], [60] seq., [81], [90], [297], [346]
Drowning, Superstitions regarding, [287]-[8]
Du Bose quoted, [331], [348]
"Dwarf-catchers," [49]
"Dwarfs," see Wo-jên and Japanese
Dyaks of Borneo, [376] (1)
Dynastic histories of China, [35]
Earthquakes, [55], [60], [61], [63], [64], [66], [67]
Eclipses, [68], [418]-[22]
Edkins, Dr., quoted, [334], [417]-[8]
Education, [172] seq., [195], [333]
Egypt, [318], [320], [387] (2)
Egypt, Funeral trees in, [264] (1)
Eliot, Sir Charles, quoted, [329], [335] (2), [341]
Elixir of Life, [20], [22], [24], [32]
Epidemics, [56], [64], [67]
Ethics, Confucian, [301] seq., [307] seq., [328] seq., [352]-
[3]
Ethics, Taoist, [352] seq., [354] seq.
Ethnography of Weihaiwei, [38] seq.
Evergreen trees, Significance of, [121]-[2], [262]-[4], [378]
Evil spirits, [289] seq., [292]
Excalibur, A Chinese, [362]-[3]
Export trade of Weihaiwei, [90], [164] seq.
"Expulsion from the clan" (ch'u tsu), [159]
Expulsion of disease, Magical, [183], [192], [375] seq., [384]
Extra-territorial jurisdiction, [447]-[8]
Fairs, Country, [129] seq.
Family organisation, [112] seq., [135] seq.
Families, Antiquity of Chinese, [134] seq.
Famines, [16], [36], [55], [56], [59] seq.
Fang Chi (village), [401]
Farnell's Evolution of Religion cited, [321], [338], [416] (2)
Feathers and rain, Supposed connection between, [295] seq., [298]-[9]
Fên-chia (Family division), [149] seq., [218]-[9]
Fên-shu (deed specifying details of division of family property), [149] seq.
Fêng-lin (village), [129]
Fêng-shui (geomantic superstition), [119]-[20], [181], [198], [203], [251], [264]-[70], [333], [387]
Ferguson's Tree and Serpent Worship cited, [379] (5)
Festivals at Weihaiwei, [178] seq.
Fichte quoted, [329]
Fiji Islanders, Religious ideas of, [251] (3)
Filial Piety, [196], [199], [200], [272]-[5], [342] seq.,
and see Ancestor-worship
Filial Piety, Classic of, quoted, [271]-[4]
Financial position of China, [443] seq.
Fir-trees, [121]-[2], [167], [262]-[4], [378],
and see Evergreen trees
"First Emperor, The," [20] seq., [43]
Fish, Large, seen at Weihaiwei, [24], [26], [27], [62], [65]
Fitzgerald Range, [31]
Five Sacred Hills, [71], [73], [74], [391] seq., [396]
Fleet, Ships of British, at Weihaiwei, [25]-[6], [81]-[2], [429]
Floods, [16], [36], [52], [55], [56], [59] seq., [81]
Flora of Weihaiwei, [167]
Flowers' Birthday, [185]
Flying corpses, [295] seq.
Fo-erh-ting (Buddha's Head), [32]
Folk-lore, [34] seq., [155] seq., [173] seq. and passim
Folk-lore quoted, [183] (2), [184] (1), [281] (1), [298] (3), [299], [377] (2), [379], [380]
Folk-lore Journal quoted, [264] (1), [291] (1), [294], [298] (2), [379]
Food of the people, [164] seq.
Foot-binding, [195]
Forestation, [17], [447]
Forke's translation of Lun Hêng cited, [40] (2), [271] (1), [297] (3)
Fortifications of Weihaiwei, [27], [56], [78], [426]-[9]
Foundation Sacrifices, [365] seq.
Four Famous (Buddhist) Mountains, [394]
Frazer's Golden Bough quoted, [183] (2), [186] (1), [187] (3), [294] (2), [295], [375] (1), [376] (1), [377] (3), [379]
From Peking to Mandalay cited, [47]
Frugality of people of Weihaiwei, [79]
Fruit, Magic, [25]
Fruit-growing in Weihaiwei, [164]-[5]
Fu (Prefecture), [15], [16]
Fu-mu-kuan (father-and-mother officials), [9], [15], [98], [122]-[3], [345]-[6]
Fu-sang (name of mythical land in the East), [21], [24]-[5], [419]
Fusō, Japanese name for Fu-sang
Fustel de Coulanges cited, [142], [319] (2)
Future of China, [125]-[6], [135] (5), [138] (1), [240] seq., [307], [426] seq.
Gambling, [171]
Game-birds, [165]-[6]
Gardiner, S. R., quoted, [200]-[1]
Garrison of Weihaiwei, [82] seq.
German action in China, [57], [58]
Ghosts, [173] seq., [276] seq., [286] seq., [289] seq.
Gibbon's Decline and Fall quoted, [182] (2)
Gibraltar, [80]
Giles, Prof. H. A., quoted, [188], [301]-[2], [305], [308], [313], [348] (2), [349], [351]
Giles, Lionel, quoted, [303], [305], [311], [327]
Ginkgo tree, see Maidenhair tree
Gloucestershire, Dragons in, [387] (2)
Glover, T. R., cited, [319] (2), [320] (2, [3]), [378] (1)
God, Definition of, [330]-[1]
God of the City, [364]-[71]
God of War, see Kuan Ti
God of Wealth, [360]-[1]
Goddess of Mercy, see Kuan Yin
Goh, D., cited, [319] (4)
Golden Age of China, [39]
Golden Bough, The, see Frazer
Golden Rule, The, [352]
Golf links at Weihaiwei, [25], [29]
Gomme's Folk-lore Relics quoted, [186] (2), [193] (1), [293], [365] (1), [412] (1)
Government of Weihaiwei, British, [7]-[9], [28], [80] seq., [429] seq.
Grape-cultivation, [165]
Graveyards, [254]-[75]
Great auk, China not a, [307]
Great Wall of China, The, [21], [365]
Greece, Ancient, [373], [396]-[7]
Griffis, Dr. W. E., quoted, [304], [307], [322], [379] (5), [387] (4)
Groot, Dr. De, quoted, [6], [7], [17], [174] (3), [185] (1), [192] (1), [219], [262], [263], [271], [277], [278], [279], [280], [283], [287] (1), [291] (1), [292], [298] (1), [380] (2), [387] (3, 4), [435]
Ground-nuts, [164]
Guisers, [184] (1)
Hachiman (Japanese deity), [362]
Hai Chuang (village), [78]
Hai-hsi-t'ou (village), [289]
Hailstorms, [59], [61]-[2]
Hallam quoted, [310]
Halley's comet, [59], [63]
Han dynasty, [59], [79] (1)
Han Fei Tzŭ (philosopher), [351] (1)
Han Kao Tsu, (Emperor Kao Tsu of the Han dynasty), [43]
Han Wu Ti (Emperor Wu of the Han dynasty), [23]
Han-pa (drought-demon), [295] seq.
Happy marriages in China, [195]-[6], [244]-[5]
Harbour of Weihaiwei, [25] seq., [28], [78], [426] seq.
Hare, Mr. G. T., [79]
Harriers, Weihaiwei, [82]
Headmen, [155], [289], [336], [371]-[7], [382], [386]
Hearn, Lafcadio, [341], [349], [431], [447] (1)
Hearth-god, [193], [372]
Hebrews, Serpent-worship among, [387]
Hegel quoted, [329]
Hell, Christian attitude towards idea of, [323]-[4]
Hells of Buddhism, [402]
Hemp, Folk-lore connected with, [179]
Herd-boy and Spinning Maiden, Chinese legend of, [190]
Herodotus quoted, [315], [316], [365] (1)
Heroes and other celebrities of Weihaiwei, [69] seq.
High Court of Weihaiwei, [99]-[100]
Hill-Tout's British North America cited, [206]
Hills of Weihaiwei, [30]-[3], [78]-[9], [391]-[8]
Hills, Sacred, of China, [71], [73], [74], [116], [391] seq., [396]
Historians' History of the World quoted, [35]
History of Weihaiwei, [38] seq.
Ho the Astronomer, [43]
Ho Ch'ing (village), [391]
Holcombe, Chester, [352] (4)
Holidays at Weihaiwei, [178] seq.
Hongkong, [77], [80], [81], [366]
Honour, Commercial, among Chinese, [138] seq.
Hooker quoted, [330]
Hot springs, [29], [98], [400]
Hotels at Weihaiwei, [26], [28]
House of Lords, The Chinese, [349]-[50]
Hsi and Ho (astronomers), [40]-[2]
Hsi-yü-ting (hill), [31]
Hsien (magisterial district), [14] seq., [48], [53]
Hsien-jên (mountain recluses), [32]
Hsün-chien (Chinese deputy-magistrate), [30], [53]-[4], [367]-[8]
Hua Shan (one of the Five Sacred Hills), [73]
Huai Nan Tzŭ (philosopher), [351] (1)
Huai-ts'ui-lou (tower on city walls), [30], [31]
Huang Ch'êng-tsung, [75]-[6]
Huang K'o Ssŭ (temple), [401]
Human flesh, Eating of, [61], [64]
Human sacrifices, [365]-[6]
"Hundred-grass lotion," [189]-[90]
Hunting at Weihaiwei, [82]
Huo Ch'ien (village), [391]
Hydrophobia, [176]-[8]
Idolatry, [320]-[1], [335] seq., [337], [340], [348], [412], [414] seq.
India, Unrest in, [432]
Individualism, [135] seq., [344]
Insincerity in politics, Chinese, [441]
Irish folk-lore, [281] (1), [296] (1), [375]
Isis and Horus, [320]
Isles of the Blest, [24]-[5]
Jade-Imperial-God, [32], [391] seq., [396], [398]
Jamaica, [80]
James, Prof. William, cited, [324]
Japan and Japanese, [40], [44], [48], [56], [70], [87] (1), [348], [373], [375]-[6], [379], [387] (4), [432], [438]-[9]
Japan, Abortive Chinese attempts at invasion of, [44]-[5]
Japan, Confucianism in, [304]-[5]
Japanese ancestor-worship, [341]-[2], [348]
Japanese "spiritualism," [175] (2)
Jên-chieh (Festival of Living Men), [192], [369]
Jesuits in China, [334]
Jih-tao (Sun Island), [30]
Jih-yüeh-ho-pi (atmospheric appearance), [64]
Joan of Arc, [338] (1)
Ju Hsüeh (Director of Confucian studies), [47]
Jung-ch'êng city and district, [13], [14], [16], [18], [19], [24], [43], [44], [47], [51], [53], [98], [180] (1), [301], [369]-[71], [390]
Jung-ch'êng hsien chih (Annals of Jung-ch'êng), [37], [56], [168]-[9], [402]
Jurisdiction of courts in Weihaiwei, [98]-[101]
Juristic Person (Persona ficta), Evolution of, [156] seq.
Kakasu Okakura cited, [356]
K'ang Hsi, The Emperor, [51]
K'ang Hsi Dictionary, [40], [297] (2)
Kempson, Rev. F. C., quoted, [324]
Khond tribes of India, [382]-[3]
Ki-ming island, see Chi-ming-tao
Kiaochou, [14], [17], [57], [58], [428]
Kingsmill, T., quoted, [352] (3)
Kitchen-god, see Hearth-god
Knox, Prof. G. W., [353]-[4]
Kojin (Japanese deity), [193] (1)
Korea, [1], [20], [39], [40], [183] (2), [377]
Kowloon, [77], [428] (2)
Ku Hung-ming quoted, [311]
Ku-mo Shan, [31]
Ku Shan (hill and temple), [399]-[402]
Ku-shan-hou (village), [129]
Ku Shêng-yen, [70]
Ku-yü hills, [78]-[9]
Kuan Ti (God of War), [27], [338], [362]-[4]
Kuan Yin, [336], [357], [385], [404], [414]-
[5]
Kublai Khan, [44]-[5]
Kuei Chieh (Festivals of the Dead), [191], [192], [292], [369]
La-pa-chou (Twelfth-month gruel), [192]
Lai-tzŭ, [43]
Lancashire folk-lore, [377]
Land-tax, [64], [65], [96]-[7]
Land-tenure, [55], [127]-[54]
Lang, Andrew, quoted, [318] (1)
Lantern-dances, [184]
Lantern Festival, [182]-[4], [409]
Lao Chün, [391]
Lao Mountains, [73]
Lao Tzŭ (The Old Philosopher), [40] (1), [351] seq., [391]
Lao-ya Shan, [31]
Laoism, [356]
Lawyers, Absence of, [102], [104]
Le Roy cited, [326] (1)
Lease of Weihaiwei to Great Britain, [29], and see Convention
Legal system of China, Reform of, [448]
Legge, Professor, cited, [39], [41] (1), [271] (1), [297] (1), [300] (1), [302] (2), [311], [312], [313], [316], [321], [340], [345] (2), [353]
Li Ch'un (Beginning of Spring), [180] seq.
Li Hung-chang a serpent-worshipper, [387] (3)
Li-k'ou hill, [32]
Li Tzŭ-ch'êng, [50]
Lighthouses, [19]
Likin tax, [443]
Lin-chia-yüan (village), [165], [381], [383]
Lincolnshire, Folk-lore of, [176] (1), [179] (1), [379], [387] (2)
Literature, God of, [361]-[2]
Litigation, [98] seq., [102]-[26]
Liu, Mr. and Mrs., [26]-[8]
Liukungtao, [12], [25] seq., [30], [47], [48], [50], [78], [79]
Lockhart, Sir James H. Stewart, [79]
Locusts, [60], [61], [62], [64], [65], [66], [67], [68], [396]
Lowell, Percival, Occult Japan by, quoted, [175] (2)
Lu, Earl of, [69]
Lu, the native state of Confucius, [42]
Luchu Islands, [1]
Lucky and Unlucky days, [295] (2)
Lun Hêng of Wang Ch'ung cited, [40] (2), [271] (1), [297], [347] (1)
Lung Wang (Dragon King), [289], [336], [385]-[91]
Lyall, Sir Alfred, cited, [339], [365] (1), [446]
Lyra, H.M.S., [1], [56]
Ma-t'ou, see Port Edward
Macdonald, Mount, [32], [166], [397]-[8]
Macgowan's Sidelights on Chinese Life quoted, [109], [201] (2), [342] (2), [414], [423], [424]
Mackay Treaty, [443]-[4], [448] (1)
Mad dogs, Cures for bites of, [176]-[8]
Madagascar, Mirror superstition in, [295]
Magdalen College, May Day at, [413]
Magisterial courts at Weihaiwei, [98] seq.
Maidenhair tree, [168], [381]
Maine's Ancient Law cited, [136] (1)
Malay States, Superstitions and folk-lore of, [175] (1), [298] (1), [379], [422] (1)
Manchu dynasty, [50]-[1]
Manchu invasion of China, [50]-[1]
Mandalay, [365]
Mang-shên, [180]-[2]
Mang-tao village and tree, [383]-[4]
Market villages, [129]
Marriage customs, [169], [203] seq., [232] seq.
Marriages between the dead, [6], [204] seq.
Martin, W. A. P., quoted, [332]-[3], [352]
Maspero cited, [356], [379] (5)
McKibben, Rev. W. K., quoted, [354]
Meadows quoted, [321]
Mencius, [34], [300], [343] (1), [430] (1)
Mêng-chia-chuang (village), [134]
Mexico, Religious customs and beliefs in, [186], [375], [388]
Micius (Chinese philosopher), [347] (1)
Middlemen in Chinese marriages, [204], [206]
Midsummer, Folk-lore relating to, [189]
Military precautions against Japanese, [44] seq.
Milky Way, Different names for, [318] (1)
Millard, T. F., quoted, [440] (1), [445] (footnote)
Ming dynasty, [31], [44], [46], [50]-[1], [6]
Mirage, [30]
Mirrors, Superstitions regarding, [294]-[5]
Missionaries, [11], [57], [58], [122], [123]-[4], [302] (2), [315] seq., [331] seq., [336], [353] seq., [407], [412]
Mo Tzŭ, see Micius
Mock suns (parhelia), [60]
Modernists, [326] (1), [413]
Mohammedanism, [407]
Mongol dynasty, [44], [257]-[8], and see Kublai Khan
Montaigne's Essays quoted, [312] (2), [322]
Montesquieu quoted, [344] (1)
"Moon" (month) in China, [59]-[60]
Moon-worship, [182] seq., [191]
Morse, H. B., cited, [444] (1)
Mortgages of Land, [145] seq.
Mou Chou (district), [44]
Mou-p'ing, Marquisate of, [43]
Mou-tzŭ country, [43]
Mountain-shrines, [395]-[8], and see Hills
Mountain-worship, [391]-[8]
Mountains, Celebrated, of China, [35]-[6], [71], [73], [74], [391] seq.
Mu yü (Buddhist "wooden fish"), [190]-[1]
Mugwort, Magical use of, [188]-[9]
Müller, Max, cited, [319], [321], [334] (2), [352] (2), [353], [414], [416]-[7]
Mutilations of human body, Chinese abhorrence of, [281]
Nagasaki, [14]
Nai-ku-shan (hill), [30], [76]
Names of persons and villages, [163]-[4]
Nature, Chinese love of wild, [32]-[3], [393] seq.
Navy, The Chinese, [426] seq., [436] seq.
"New Fire," [186]
New Guinea, Treatment of children's corpses in, [251]
New Territory of Hongkong, [77]
New Year Festivities, [178]-[9], [193]-[4]
New Zealand Hearth-god, [193] (1)
Newman, Cardinal, [328]
Newspapers, Absence of, in Weihaiwei, [436]
Ning-hai city and district, [14], [16], [44], [53], [180] (1), [301]
Ning-hai-chou Chih (Annals of Ning-hai), [37], [300], and see Annals
Nobushige Hozumi quoted, [341], [348], [373]
North Division of Weihaiwei, [97] seq., [129]
Northumberland folk-lore, [180] (3), [185] (2), [293]
Nun, Story of a Buddhist, [405]-[6]
Ocean spirits, [21]-[2]
"Oie-hai-oie," [1]
Oman's Cults, Customs and Superstitions of India quoted, [225]
Opium in Weihaiwei, [171]-[2], [357]
Order-in-Council, Weihaiwei, [8], [99], [100]
Ordinances of Weihaiwei, [80]-[1]
Orkney and Shetland folk-lore, [184] (1), [293], [294]
Orpheus of S. Reinach quoted, [379] (5)
Oxford, Rev. A. W., quoted, [315] (1), [319], [378] (2)
Pa kua (mystic diagrams), [181]
Pai-hu, [47]
Palestine, Human sacrifices in, [365] (1)
Pao-hsin (village), [382]
Parhelia (mock-suns), [60], [63], [67], [68]
Parker, Prof. E. H., quoted, [137] (1), [334] (2), [335], [355] (1)
Patria potestas, [149] seq.
Patriarchal theories, [15], [16], [149], [156], [209] seq., [252]-[3]
Patriotism in China, [429] seq.
Peasantry of Weihaiwei, Hardihood of, [68]-[9]
Pedigree-scrolls, [279]
Pei k'ou Pass (also village and temple), [18] (1), [168] (1)
Peking, [81], [392]
Pennant's Tour in Scotland cited, [293]
Persecutions by Christians, [308]-[9]
Peru, Religious and other customs in, [186], [225], [418]
Pestilences, [55], [64], [68], and see Epidemics
Petitions to officials at Weihaiwei, [114] seq.
P'êng-lai (name of fairy islands), [21], [24]-[5]
Philanthropy shown by Chinese, [70], [73]-[4]
Philostratus quoted, [435]-[6]
Philpot's The Sacred Tree cited, [379] (5), [380]
Pi Kao, [70]
Pine-trees, [262], and see Evergreen trees
Pirates, [44] seq., [48] seq., [52], [55], [61]
Planchette in China, [174] seq.
Poets and poetry of Weihaiwei, [30], [72], [73], [74]
Poisonous influences of the fifth month, [188]-[9]
Police of Weihaiwei, [83], [98], [101], [158] seq.
Polygamy in China, [214]
Pootoo (sacred island), [394], [414]
Population of Weihaiwei, [28], [29], [79], [128]-[9]
Port Arthur, [2], [14], [56], [57], [428]
Port Edward, [27], [28], [29], [79], [97], [172], [385], [429]
Prayer, Confucius's attitude towards, [327]
"Pro-Chinese," [125]
Promontory, see Shantung Promontory
Prosperity of Weihaiwei under British rule, [90], [94]-[5]
Psychic research, [175]
Pu-yeh city and district, [43]
Public works at Weihaiwei, [93]-[4]
Queen of Heaven, The Chinese, [336], [385]
Rain, Curious superstitions regarding, [295]-[9]
Rain, Prayers for, and rain-charms, [31], [187], [336], [346]
Rainfall, [16], [18], [81]
Rationalism in China, [334]
Recluses, Taoist, [32], [393] seq.
Recreation, Means of, at Weihaiwei, [26], [29]
Red, a lucky colour, [174], [178], [179], [376]
Reform movements, [9]-[11], [173], [436] seq., [449]
Regiment, Weihaiwei, [28], [82]-[7]
Reinach's Orpheus cited, [379] (5)
Religion, Definitions of, [328]-[30]
Religions of China, [23], [27]-[8], [31], [32], [69]-[70], [129] seq., [254] seq., [276] seq., [300], [351], [385], and see Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, etc.
Revenue and expenditure of Weihaiwei, [93]-[7]
Ritchie, D. G., quoted, [135], [317] (1)
Rivers, see Streams
Robbers and brigands, [55], [62], [90]
Robertson, J. M., quoted, [186]
Rome, Church of, in China, [334] seq.
Rome, Religion in, [373], [378]
Russian action in China, [57]
Sacred Edict, The, [123]-[4]
Sacred hills of China, see Hills, Sacred
Sacred trees, [375], [377]-[81]
Sacrifices, Human, [365] seq.
Saints of Christendom, [335], [337], [381]-[2]
San Chiao (Three Religions of China), [407]
San Kuan (Taoist divinities), [361]
Sati, [224]-[5], and see Widows
Scenery of Weihaiwei and neighbourhood, [17], [18], [25], [395] seq.
Schleiermacher quoted, [329]
Scholarly hermits of China, [72]-[3], [393] seq.
School, European, at Weihaiwei, [28], [90]
Scolds, Female, in Weihaiwei, [197] seq.
Scott, Sir Walter, [314]
Scottish folk-lore, [184] (1), [291] (1), [293], [294], [296], [298]
Sea-monsters in Chinese legend and history, [24], [26], [27], [62], [65]
Secretary to Government of Weihaiwei, [79], [98]
Seoul (Korea), Spring customs at, [183] (2)
Serpent-worship, [387] seq.
Shan Hai Ching ("Hill and Sea Classic"), [38], [40] (2), [42], [297]
Shan-shên (mountain-spirits),
[166], and see Hills, Sacred, of China
Shansi (Shan-hsi), Province of, [346]
Shang Chuang (village), [18]
Shanghai, [14] (1), [142] (2)
Shanghai folk-lore, [180] (3), [183] (2), [185] (3), [371] (1), [377] (1)
Shang Fên ("Going up to the Tombs"), [187], and see Ancestor-worship
Shang Ti, [392], [395]
Shantung, Area and subdivisions of, [16]
Shantung Promontory, [14], [18]-[25], [40] seq., [53], [56], [60], [78]
Shantung Province, Alleged special sanctity of, [430] (1)
Shantung T'ung Chih (official Annals and Topography of Shantung), [56]
Shên, an ancient worthy of Wên-têng, [69]
Shên-nung, The Emperor, [39], [180]
Shêng-chia-chuang (village), [69]
Shêng-tzŭ (village), [14], [53]
Shetland Islands, Folk-lore of, [184] (1), [291] (1)
Shih Ching quoted, [206], [297]
Shih Huang Ch'iao (Bridge of the "First Emperor"), [19] seq.
Shinto, [319] (4), [341]
Shu Ching (a Confucian classic), [34]-[5], [39], [40], [41]
Shuang-tao (village), [97]
Shun, The Emperor, [39], [392]
Sidney, Sir Philip, [314]
Silk industry, [59], [141] (1), [162], [166]
Sino-Japanese war, [2], [56], [87] (1), [428]
Skating, [81]
Skeat's Malay Magic quoted, [175] (1), [298] (1), [379] (1, [5]), [422] (1)
Small-pox in Weihaiwei, [193]
Smith, A. H., quoted, [225] (2), [321]-[2], [331]-[2], [334]
Snipe, [165]-[6]
Sociological interest of Weihaiwei, [133] seq., [155] seq., [195] seq.
Solomon, King, [22]
Sophora Japonica, [168], [381], [383]
Souls, Festivals of, [191], [292], [369]
South Division of Weihaiwei, [97] seq., [104], [114] seq., [129]
Spectator, The, quoted, [333], [431]
Spencer, Herbert, [315], [316], [341], [431]
"Sphere of Influence," British, [78]
Spiders, Folk-lore connected with, [191]
Spiritualism, Chinese, [174] seq.
Sport at Weihaiwei, [82], [165]-[6]
Spring Festivals, [180] seq.
Spring Ox, [180]-[2]
Ssŭch'uan, Chinese official Annals of, [36]
Ssŭ-ma Ch'ien (Chinese historian), [35]
St. George and the Dragon, [387] (2)
St. Helena, [80]
Straits Settlements, [80]
Streams of Weihaiwei, [18]
Su-mên-tao (island), [42]
Suicides, [219], [221] seq.
Sulphur springs at Weihaiwei, [29]
Summer at Weihaiwei, [66]
Sun, Chinese legends relating to the, [21], [40] seq., [60]-[1]
Sun-worship, [185]
Sung dynasty, [44], [59]
Sung-lin-Kuo-chia (village), [163]
Sung Ting hill, [31]
Swettenham's Malay Sketches quoted, [175] (1)
Switzerland, Holy trees in, [379]
Sympathetic magic, [176], [416]
Ta-jên (term of respect), [15], [16], [106]-[7]
Taku, [14]
Ta K'un-yü hills, [79]
Ta-lan-t'ou (village), [78]
Ta lao-yeh (term of respect), [15], [106] (2)
Ta-sung-wei, [53]
T'ang dynasty, [44], [59], [398]-[9]
T'ai P'ing Huan Yü Chi quoted, [21], [22], [43], [46]
Tao, Meaning of, [352], [354]-[5]
Tao Tê Ching, [351] seq., [355]
Taoism, [10]-[11], [32], [173] seq., [333], [351]-[84]
Taoism, Supreme God of, [32], [391] seq.
Taoist "Pope," [358]
Taoist priesthood, [357] seq.
T'ao Lang-hsien, [50]
Taxation under British rule, [93]-[7]
Temperature of seasons at Weihaiwei, [81]-[2]
Temples, [23], [26], [27], [60], [78], [79], [129] seq., [135], [258], [279], [301], [357] seq., [391] seq., [399] seq.
Tengu, see T'ien Kou
Têng-chou, [16], [40], [44]
Tennyson, [411]-[12]
Tertullian, [323]
Thackeray quoted, [325] (1)
Theatricals, [130] seq., [183]-[4]
Thermal springs, [29], [98], [400]
Ti, a Chinese word for God, [339]-[41]
Tiao-wo hill, [31]
Tiger, Manchurian, [160]
Times, The, quoted, [432]
Ting, Admiral, [2]
Ting Pai-yün, [73]
T'ien Hou, Queen of Heaven, [336], [385]
T'ien Kou (Heavenly Dog), [174]
Tombs, Festivals of, [186]-[7], [255]-[6], and see Ch'ing-ming
Torture in Chinese courts, [309]-[10]
Tou Shan Ssŭ (Buddhist temple), [402]
Trade of Weihaiwei, [28], [94]-[5], [129], [164] seq., [426] seq.
Transmigration of souls, [403]-[4]
Tree-worship, [261]-[2], [375], [377]-[81]
Trees, [17], [18], [167]-[8]
Truthfulness, Chinese and Confucian conceptions of, [105], [108]-[12], [310]-[17]
Tsai Li Sect or Society, [358]
Ts'ai Shên (God of Wealth), [360]-[1]
Tsao Shên, see Hearth-god
Ts'ao-miao-tzŭ, [129]
Tsingtao, [426]
Tso Chuan, [35]
Ts'un Kuei (village regulations), [160] seq.
Tung-lai Prefecture, [43], [44]
Tutelary local deities, [364]-[77]
T'u Ssŭ, [47]
T'u Ti (local deity), [155], [336], [371]-[7], [382], [386]
Tylor's Primitive Culture quoted, [177], [186], [251] (3), [252], [261], [287] (2), [319] (2), [320], [341] (2), [365] (1), [375], [377], [378], [381], [382], [403], [411], [418], [419], [420], [422], [423]
Tyrell, George, quoted, [326] (1), [329]
Uji-gami of Japan, [373]
United States and China, [440] seq.
Untruthfulness of Chinese, Alleged, [108]-[12], [310]-[17]
Upanishads of India, [330]
Urn-burial, Sir Thomas Browne's, quoted, [239] (1), [264] (1)
Vaeddas of Ceylon, [252]
Vampires, [298]
Vedas of India, [330]-[1]
Vientian, Dances at, [131]-[2]
Village-life and Land tenure, [127] seq., [155] seq.
Village tutelary gods, [155], [336], [371]-[7]
Villages of Weihaiwei, [79], [127] seq., [155] seq. and passim
Vine-cultivation, [165]
Vivian, Philip, quoted, [304]-[5]
Wade, Sir Thomas, quoted, [329]
Walter, Mr. R., [79]
Wang-chia-k'uang (village), [18]
Wang Ch'i-jui, [74]-[5]
Wang Ch'ung (Chinese philosopher) quoted, [40] (2), [271] (1), [297], [347] (1), [422]
Wang Hsien-wu, a Pirate, [50]
Wang Yüeh, [71]
War, God of, see Kuan Ti
Water, Lack of running, [18]
Watters, T., quoted, [183] (2)
Wealth, God of, [360]-[1]
Weather, Methods of forecasting, [179]
Weeping over corpses, Superstition regarding, [295] seq.
Wei, meaning of, [12]-[13]
Wei (military district), [12], [13], [46] seq., [52]-[3], [54], [55]
Wei Chiang-chün, [70]
Wei To (Buddhist divinity), [404]
Weihaiwei Convention, [2], [29]-[30], [57], [77]-[8], [428];
meaning of name, [12]-[3];
Order-in-Council, [8], [99], [100];
scenery of, [17], [18], [25], [395] seq.
Weihaiwei Chih (Chinese Annals of Weihaiwei), [37], [46], [168], [289] seq., [362]-[3], [390]-[1]
Weihaiwei City, [29], [47], [78], [129], [362], [367]-[8]
Weihaiwei, Future of, [426] seq.
Weihaiwei Police, [83], [98], [101], [158] seq.
Weihaiwei Regiment, [28], [82]-[7]
Weihaiwei School, [28], [90]
Wên-ch'ang (Taoist divinity), [361]-[2]
Wên-ch'üan-chai, [53], [54], [382]
Wên-ch'üan-t'ang, [53], [54], [70], [98], [165], [400]
Wên-têng city and district, [13], [14], [16], [23], [43], [44], [48], [53], [63], [69], [98], [180] (1), [301]
Wên-têng, Legendary origin of name, [23]
Wên-têng Magistrate, [30], [61], [64]
Wên-têng, Marquis of, [69]-[70]
Wên-têng Shan (hill), [23], [69]
Wên-têng Hsien Chih (Annals and Topography of Wên-têng), [36], [37], [46], [56], and see Annals
White-clouds, Mr., [73]
Widow-immolation, [204] seq., [219] seq., [225] seq.
Widows, [217] seq.
Wild-fowl at Weihaiwei, [165]-[6]
Williams, Dr. Wells, [316] (2), [331], [334] (2), [335], [336], [421]
Willow-wreaths as rain-charms, [187], [346]
Wiltshire, Folk-lore of, [281] (1)
Winter at Weihaiwei, [81]-[2]
Witches, Chinese, [21]-[4], [174], [176]
Wives, Purchase of, [211] seq.
Wo-jên ("Dwarfs," a term applied to Japanese), [46], [48], [70]
Wo Lung Shih (names of rocks), [19]
Wolves, [56], [57], [166]
Women, Chinese, [103], [112], [113], [150] seq., [168]-[9], [195]-[216], [217]-[45]
Wordsworth quoted, [394]
Wu fu (five degrees of relationship), [143]
Wu Yüeh or Wu Yo, see Hills, Sacred
Wylie's Notes on Chinese Literature cited, [313] (3)
Yamêns, Chinese, [55]
Yang and Yin, see Yin-yang
Yang Ku (the Valley of Sunlight), [41]-[2]
Yang-t'ing (village), [129], [385]
Yao, The Emperor, [39], [40], [392]
Yao-yao hill, [31]
Yellow and White races, Alleged antipathy between, [430] seq.
Yin-ma-ch'ih ("Drink-horse-pool"), [24]
Yin-yang (in ancient Chinese philosophy), [262] seq., [276], and see Fêng-shui
York Powell, F., quoted, [319]-[20]
Yorkshire, Graveyard superstitions of, [291], [386] (1)
Yorkshire, Holy trees in, [379]
Yung Lin, Suicide of, [223] (1)
Yü, The Emperor, [20], [39], [392]
Yü-chia-k'uang (village), [18], [398]
Yü I (earliest recorded inhabitants of eastern extremities of Chinese Empire), [38] seq.
Yü P'êng-lun, [70]
Yüan (Mongol) dynasty, [44], [45], [59], [257]
Yüan Shu-fang, [72]
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