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Updated: June 3, 2025
Kau Kiang is 'the lady Kiang' of ode 3, the wife of Than-fu or king Thai, who came with him from Pin. A wife becoming the House of Kau. Thai Sze inherited her excellent fame, And from her came a hundred sons . He conformed to the example of his ancestors, And their spirits had no occasion for complaint.
Ho, the Governor-General of the Two Kiang; the Tautai of this port; and the Treasurer of the district, all well-disposed to foreigners, have been gradually removed from the councils of the Commissioners. Some papers which we have seized also indicate that the Emperor is by no means reconciled to some of the most important concessions obtained in the Treaties.
Wherever this can be done with any tolerable probability of usefulness it shall be attempted. The Pei-ho, which runs into the gulf of Pekin, near the head of the Yellow sea. Kathay, or Northern China, contained the six northern provinces, and Mangi or Southern China, the nine provinces to the south of the river Kiang, Yang-tse-Kiang or Kian-ku.
According to the Chinese annuals, about 4,000,000 of people perished by famine in the neighbourhood of Kiang in 1337; and deluges, swarms of locusts, and an earthquake which lasted six days, caused incredible devastation. In the same year, the first swarms of locusts appeared in Franconia, which were succeeded in the following year by myriads of these insects.
We have before us in sight the pagoda of Kew- kiang; one of the principal points which we proposed to reach when we embarked on this expedition.... We have not much to hope for from our Chinese pilot. Our several mishaps have disheartened him.
The first step toward the acceptance of these terms was taken when an imperial commission was formed of three members, Keying, Elepoo, and Niu Kien, viceroy of the Two Kiang; and to the last named, as governor of the provinces most affected, fell the task of writing the first diplomatic communication of a satisfactory character from the Chinese government to the English plenipotentiary.
Before closing this chapter it will be well to give some account of the origin of this force, and of the more important events that preceded Gordon's appointment to the command. As far back as April 1860 the Viceroy of the Two Kiang provinces had begged the English and French representatives to lend him military assistance in dealing with the rebels.
As the numerous places which had hitherto been taken were at a distance from the capital, the emperor still hoped that he might set the British at defiance. It was determined, therefore, to attack Nankin itself, the second city in the empire, situated about 200 miles up the great river Yang'tse Kiang, or Yellow River.
Here a parching drought, accompanied by famine, commenced in the tract of country watered by the rivers Kiang and Hoai. This was followed by such violent torrents of rain, in and about Kingsai, at that time the capital of the empire, that, according to tradition, more than 400,000 people perished in the floods. Finally the mountain Tsincheou fell in, and vast clefts were formed in the earth.
Lacharme denominated them correctly 'Parentales Cantus. In the Preface to the Shih, to which I have made reference above, it is said, 'The Sung are pieces in admiration of the embodied manifestation of complete virtue, announcing to the spiritual Intelligences their achievement thereof. Ku Hsi's account of the Sung was 'Songs for the Music of the Ancestral Temple; and that of Kiang Yung of the present dynasty 'Songs for the Music at Sacrifices. I have united these two definitions, and call the Part 'Odes of the Temple and the Altar. There 'is a difference between the pieces of Lu and the other two collections in this Part, to which I will call attention in giving the translation of them.
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