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Updated: May 7, 2025
Speaking the while, he was about to go immediately when Ling Kuan cried out and stopped him. "Do you go off in a tantrum in this hot broiling sun?" she said. "You may ask him to come, but I won't see him." When he heard her resolution, Chia Ch'iang had perforce to stand still. Pao-yue, perceiving what transpired between them, fell unwittingly in a dull reverie.
In the course of the third and second centuries B.C. the group of the Ti, mainly living in the territory of the present Szechwan, had mixed extensively with remains of the Yüeh-chih; the others, the Ch'iang, were northern Tibetans or so-called Tanguts; that is to say, they contained Turkish and Mongol elements.
"Can it hold a flag in its beak, or do any tricks?" "It's the 'jade-crested and gold-headed bird," smiled Chia Ch'iang. "How much did you give for it?" Pao-yue continued. "A tael and eight mace," replied Chia Ch'iang. But while replying to his inquiries, he motioned to Pao-yue to take a seat, and then went himself into Ling Kuan's apartment.
A secondary tribe often took its name from its leader, but it could also revive an earlier "primary tribe" name. The Toba represented a good example for this "cone" structure of pastoral society. Also the Hsiung-nu of this time seem to have had a similar structure. The Tibetans fell apart into two sub-groups, the Ch'iang and the Ti.
Ch'iang Secundus comes; and when he asks her to sing, she is bound to sing." Pao-yue at these words felt very sad within himself. "Where's brother Ch'iang gone to?" he asked. "He's just gone out," Pao Kuan answered. "Of course, Ling Kuan must have wanted something or other, and he's gone to devise ways and means to bring it to her." Pao-yue thought this remark very extraordinary.
In coughing to-day, I expectorated two mouthfuls of blood, and Madame Wang sent some one here to find you so as to tell you to ask the doctor round to minutely diagnose my complaint, and have you instead brought this to mock me with? But it so happens that I, who have not a soul to look after me, or to care for me, also have the fate to fall ill!" Chia Ch'iang listened to her.
"I've bought a bird for you to amuse yourself with," Chia Ch'iang added, "so that you mayn't daily feel dull and have nothing to distract yourself with. But I'll first play with it and let you see." With this prelude, he took a few seeds and began to coax the bird, until it, in point of fact, performed various tricks, on the stage, clasping in its beak a mask and a flag.
Chia Chen, to whom we again revert, was fond of display and extravagance, so that he found, on inspection of coffins, those few made of pine-wood unsuitable to his taste; when, strange coincidence, Hsueeh P'an came to pay his visit of condolence, and perceiving that Chia Chen was in quest of a good coffin: "In our establishment," he readily suggested, "we have a lot of timber of some kind or other called Ch'iang wood, which comes from the T'ieh Wang Mount, in Huang Hai; and which made into coffins will not rot, not for ten thousand years.
But tracing up or tracing down, it was ever the character "Ch'iang." When he gazed again, it was still the self-same Ch'iang. The one inside the fence fell, in fact, from an early stage, into a foolish mood, and no sooner was one 'Ch'iang, finished than she started with another; so that she had already written several tens of them.
On completing the sketch, he discovered, the moment he came to reflect, that it was the character "Ch'iang," in the combination, 'Ch'iang Wei, representing cinnamon roses. "She too," pondered Pao-yue, "must have been bent upon writing verses, or supplying some line or other, and at the sight now of the flowers, the idea must have suggested itself to her mind.
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