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Updated: May 16, 2025
In course of time trades became highly specialized their number being legion and localized, bankers, for instance, congregating in Shansi, carpenters in Chi Chou, and porcelain-manufacturers in Jao Chou, in Kiangsi. As to land, it became at an early age the property of the sovereign, who farmed it out to his relatives or favourites.
"It's easy to get at her," added the boy; "just come along with me." Leading the way for goody Liu into the backyard, they reached the wall of a court, when he pointed and said, "This is her house. Mother Chou!" he went on to shout with alacrity; "there's an old lady who wants to see you." Chou Jui's wife was at home, and with all haste she came out to greet her visitor. "Who is it?" she asked.
They could change their masters if the land changed its master, but they could not legally be sold individually. Thus, the following, still rather hypothetical, picture of the land system of the early Chou time emerges: around the walled towns of the feudal lords and sub-lords, always in the plains, was "state land" which produced millet and more and more wheat.
Thou gavest us wheat and barley, Which God appointed for our nourishment, And without distinction of territory, Didst inculcate the virtues over our vast dominions. Other Deities. During the long period covered by the Chou dynasty, various other deities, of more or less importance, were called into existence.
A temple, called Temple of the Prince of Ch'ing Ho, was built by them, and the territory of Ling Chou was given to Chang Tao-ling in recognition of the benefits he had conferred upon the people. The Dragon-king's Daughter She said to him: "I am the youngest daughter of the Dragonking of the Tung-t'ing Lake.
Contrary to her expectation Tai-yue was not at this time in her own room, but in Pao-yue's; where they were amusing themselves in trying to solve the "nine strung rings" puzzle. On entering Mrs. Chou put on a smile. "'Aunt' Hsueeh," she explained, "has told me to bring these flowers and present them to you to wear in your hair." "What flowers?" exclaimed Pao-yue.
How could you remember such as ourselves?" With these words still in her mouth, they had entered the house, whereupon Mrs. Chou ordered a hired waiting-maid to pour the tea. While they were having their tea she remarked, "How Pan Erh has managed to grow!" and then went on to make inquiries on the subject of various matters, which had occurred after their separation.
This menace Wong Ts'in bought off from time to time by agreeing to their exactions, but it began presently to appear that this way of appeasing them resembled Chou Hong's method of extinguishing a fire by directing jets of wind against it.
Such families often derive their origin from branches of the Chou nobility. But other gentry families were of different and more recent origin in respect to land ownership.
Nor are you led off because a near-by stairway beckons you to a Chinese restaurant up above. A golden dragon swings over the door. Its race has fallen since its fire-breathing grandsire guarded the fruits of the Hesperides. Are not "soys" and "chou meins" and other such treasures of the East laid out above? And yet the dragon dozes at its post like a sleepy dog. No flame leaps up its gullet.
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