A glossary of reference on subjects connected with the Far East / by Herbert A. Giles.

  • Herbert Giles
Date:
1886
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Credit: A glossary of reference on subjects connected with the Far East / by Herbert A. Giles. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tomb of Confucius, etc., etc., while a number of them are required to be in attendance on the Emperor as readers, instructors, advisers, and so forth. Admission to this body is the highest literary honour obtainable by a Chinese scholar. .B^tablished eqrly in the 8th century by the emperoi^i H^fa’n^Tsuhgi of the T‘ang dynasty. HANOI: The capital oi Tonquim, HAPPY vlLliPY, THE : ^ -)i —yellow mud creek. * .V ' . . A valley ih the island of Hongkong, covering about thirty A r ^ acres of ground, and used as a race-course. The' fefm Happy Vdlley belongs originally to Dr. Johnson’s Basselasj the history of a prince of Abyssinia' who travelled far and wide ih search of true happiness. ^ ♦ HAEA KIRI: ^ '^-^belly cutting. Disembowelment: the form of suicide formerly in vogue among the Japanese. Familiarly known to Europeans as the ‘‘happy despatch.” HATOBA: [. ' A piei^, or landing-place. [Japanese.] Used much as matow in China. HATS, CHINESE OFFICIAL. Are of two kinds, for winter and for summer; called “warm hats” and “cool hats” respectively. The latter is made of a yellow grass: the former of black cloth, velvet, and satin. Both have red tassels. The days for changing from one to the other in spring and autumn vary in various parts of the empire, as fixed by the provincial officials in each case; but they are always (1) very shortly before or after the “Beginning of Summer” at the efid of the 3rd or in’the early part of the 4th moon, and (2) some time between the mid-autumn festival on 15th of the 8th moon and the 9th of the 9th moon. I
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