mountain-girdle

Updated: May 27, 2025

But the place of his birth we know not; perhaps the tradition of it may have been effaced from remembrance by that awful war which in our own day consumed the lives of twenty millions of the Black-haired Race, and obliterated from the face of the world even the wonderful City of Porcelain itself, the City of King-te-chin, that of old shone like a jewel of fire in the blue mountain-girdle of Feou-liang.

Lafcadio Hearn - Some Chinese Ghosts