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The meeting-place of the British Lion and the Chinese Dragon in northern China consists of the port and Territory of Weihaiwei. It is therefore with this district, and the history, folk-lore, religious practices and social customs of its people, that the following pages are largely occupied. But Weihaiwei is in many respects a true miniature of China, and a careful study of native life and character, as they are exhibited in this small district, may perhaps give us a clearer and truer insight into the life and character of the Chinese race than we should gain from any superficial survey of China as a whole. Its present status under the British Crown supplies European observers with a unique opportunity for the close study of sociological and other conditions in rural China. If several chapters of this book seem to be but slightly concerned with the special subject of Weihaiwei, it is because the chief interest of the place to the student lies in the fact that it is an epitomised China, and because if we wish fully to understand even this small fragment of the Empire we must make many long excursions through the wider fields of Chinese history, sociology and religion.

BRITISH, CHINESE, HISTORY, WEIHAIWEI, DRAGON, CONFUCIANISM, BUDDHISMINTRODUCTIONLess than a dozen years have passed since the guns of British warships first saluted the flag of their country at the Chinese port of Weihaiwei, yet it is nearly a century since the white ensign was seen there for the first time. In the summer of 1816 His Britannic Majesty's frigate Alceste, accompanied by the sloop Lyra, bound for the still mysterious and unsurveyed coasts of Korea and the Luchu Islands, sailed eastwards from the mouth of the Pei-ho along the northern coast of the province of Shantung, and on the 27th August of that year cast anchor in the harbour of "Oie-hai-oie." Had the gallant officers of the Alceste and Lyra been inspired with knowledge of future political developments, they would doubtless have handed down to us an interesting account of the place and its inhabitants. All we learn from Captain Basil Hall's delightful chronicle of the voyage of the two ships consists of a few details—in the truest sense ephemeral—as to wind and weather, and a statement that the rocks of the mainland consist of "yellowish felspar, white quartz, and black mica." The rest is silence.CONTENTSINTRODUCTIONWEIHAIWEI AND THE SHANTUNG PROMONTORYHISTORY AND LEGENDCHINESE CHRONICLES AND LOCAL CELEBRITIESBRITISH RULELITIGATIONVILLAGE LIFE AND LAND TENUREVILLAGE CUSTOMS, FESTIVALS AND FOLK-LORETHE WOMEN OF WEIHAIWEIWIDOWS AND CHILDRENFAMILY GRAVEYARDSDEAD MEN AND GHOST-LORECONFUCIANISM—ICONFUCIANISM—IITAOISM, LOCAL DEITIES, TREE-WORSHIPTHE DRAGON, MOUNTAIN-WORSHIP, BUDDHISMRELIGION AND SUPERSTITION IN EAST AND WESTTHE FUTUREINDEXLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONSVIEW FROM THE HUAN-TS'UI-LOU ON THE CITY WALL OF WEIHAIWEITHE MANG-TAO TREEA HALT IN YÜ-CHIA-K'UANG DEFILETHE TEMPLE AT THE SHANTUNG PROMONTORYWEIHAIWEI HARBOUR, LIUKUNGTAO AND CHU-TAO LIGHTHOUSEIMAGES OF "MR. AND MRS. LIU"A VIEW FROM THE WALL OF WEIHAIWEI CITYPART OF WEIHAIWEI CITY WALLTHE AUTHOR AND TOMMIE ON THE QUORK'S PEAKTHE HARBOUR WITH BRITISH WARSHIPS, FROM LIUKUNGTAODISTRICT OFFICER'S QUARTERSTHE COURT-HOUSE, WÊN-CH'ÜAN-T'ANG"WE ARE THREE"VILLAGE OF T'ANG HO-HSIA TYPICAL THEATRICAL STAGE BELONGING TO A TEMPLEVILLAGE THEATRICALSA DISTRICT HEADMAN AND HIS COMPLIMENTARY TABLETTHREE VILLAGE HEADMENPROTECTIVE CHARMS USED IN WEIHAIWEIFIRST-FULL-MOON STILT-WALKERS"WALKING BOATS" AT THE FIRST-FULL-MOON FESTIVALMASQUERADERS AT FESTIVAL OF FIRST FULL MOONGROUP OF VILLAGERS WATCHING FIRST-FULL-MOON MASQUERADERSTHREE WOMEN AND A HAYRICKTHREE GENERATIONS—AT THE VILLAGE GRINDSTONEVILLAGE OF KU-SHAN-HOU, SHOWING HONORARY POLES IN FRONT OF THE ANCESTRAL TEMPLEMONUMENT TO FAITHFUL WIDOW, KU-SHAN-HOUAN AFTERNOON SIESTAWASHING CLOTHESTHE ANCESTRAL GRAVEYARD OF THE CHOU FAMILYA PEDIGREE-SCROLL (CHIA P'U)SPIRIT-TABLETSA PEDIGREE SCROLL (CHIA P'U)A WRECKED JUNKA JUNK ASHOREWEIHAIWEI VILLAGERSSHEN-TZŬ (MULE-LITTER) FORDING A STREAMHILLS NEAR AI-SHANHILL, WOOD AND STREAMIMAGE OF KUAN TI, WEIHAIWEITHE BUDDHA OF KU SHAN TEMPLETHE CITY-GOD OF WEIHAIWEISHRINE TO THE GOD OF LITERATUREA T'U TI SHRINEYÜAN DYNASTY GRAVESA T'U TI SHRINE, SHOWING RAG-POLES AND TREETHE HAUNTED TREE OF LIN-CHIA-YÜANA VILLAGEAT CHANG-CHIA-SHANAI-SHAN PASS AND TEMPLESHRINES TO THE MOUNTAIN-SPIRIT AND LUNG WANGWORSHIP AT THE ANCESTRAL TOMBSAT THE VILLAGE OF YÜ-CHIA-K'UANGA MOUNTAIN STREAM AND HAMLETWÊN-CH'ÜAN-T'ANGSHRINE ON SUMMIT OF KU SHANVILLAGERS AT A TEMPLE DOORWAYTWO BRITISH RULERS ON THE MARCH, WITH MULE-LITTER AND HORSEA ROADSIDE SCENETHE COMMISSIONER OF WEIHAIWEI (SIR J. H. STEWART LOCKHART, K.C.M.G.), WITH PRIEST AND ATTENDANTS AT THE TEMPLE OF CH'ÊNG SHANMAP WEIHAIWEI

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The meeting-place of the British Lion and the Chinese Dragon in northern China consists of the port and Territory of Weihaiwei. It is therefore with this district, and the history, folk-lore, religious practices and social customs of its people, that the following pages are largely occupied. But Weihaiwei is in many respects a true miniature of China, and a careful study of native life and character, as they are exhibited in this small district, may perhaps give us a clearer and truer insight into the life and character of the Chinese race than we should gain from any superficial survey of China as a whole

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Combining the keen eye of an anthropologist with the skill of a historian, this colorful volume records Reginald F. Johnston's experience as a colonial official in Weihaiwei more than sixty years ago. Johnston paints a detailed picture of the rich fabric of life in Weihaiwei--the customs, social structure, family life, religion, law, and history--at a time before the region was transformed by Western influences and Chinese reformers.

Excerpt from Lion and Dragon in Northern ChinaChina has been worked out. The demand for books that profess to deal in a broad and general way with China and its people as a whole has probably, indeed, been fully satisfied: but China is too vast a country to be adequately described by any one writer or group of writers, and the more we know about China and its people the more strongly we shall feel that future workers must confine themselves to less ambitious objects of study than the whole Empire. The pioneer who with his prismatic compass passes rapidly over half a continent has nearly finished all he can be expected to do; he must soon give place to the surveyor who with plane-table and theodolite will content himself with mapping a section Of a single province.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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