siao-shui-tsing

Updated: May 20, 2025

And the mountains turn upwards to the sky in silent reverence to their Maker, whose work must in the main remain unchanged until eternity. It is now 12:30, and we have fifty li to cover before reaching Ch'u-tung. We sit here to feed at a place called Siao-shui-tsing, a sorry antediluvian make-shift of a building, where in subsequent travel I was hung up in bitter weather and had to pass the night.

Edwin John Dingle - Across China on Foot