A glossary of reference on subjects connected with the Far East / by Herbert A. Giles.
- Herbert Giles
- Date:
- 1886
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A glossary of reference on subjects connected with the Far East / by Herbert A. Giles. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![the ground their still unhuried relatives, the ordinary course being to select some propitious date. The chief Chinese festivals are the New Year, when all business is at a temporary stand-still, the Feast of Lanterns and the Dragon-hoat festival {q.v.) YEDDO or YEDO: K P —river’s door. Formerly written Jeddo, according to the Dutch orthography. Same as Tohio (q.v.). YEH: The infamous Viceroy of the two ’ Canton provinces, who was captured at the bombardment of that city in December 1858 by the Allied Forces, and banished to Calcutta where he shortly afterwards died. [See Arrow.'] He is said to have beheaded as many as 70,000 of the T‘ai-p^ing rebels who fell into his hands. His father was a petty druggist at Hankow and of a very religious turn of mind. YEH-SOO: mm —Jesus. Thus written in K^’ang Hsi’s lexicon, and explained as ® @ “ said by western nations to have been born to save mankind.” The name of a once well-known steamer, the Yesso (q.v.) was thus written in Chinese upon the paddle-boxes, until the attention of the owners was called to the impropriety of such a term. YE-LANG : pt A common term in Canton for an auction. Probably from the Portuguese leilao, through the Malayan lelang which means auction, as seen more markedly in the Swatow variation ^ loy-lang, actually pronunced lelang in Amoy. YELLOW CAPS, THE EEYOLT OF THE: ^ ijl M- A rebellion which broke out A.D. 184 towards the close of the Han dynasty, and resulted in the final division of](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30093120_0290.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
