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Updated: May 18, 2025
This occurs every year at the same time, and it is not well to cultivate trees on the height of Yung-Tshi, for the sun, being too hot, dries them up before the time when the foliage ought to fall. "A few days afterward my steps lead me on the opposite slope of the same hill.
"Both of them were suffering from a hurtful exaggeration, but each one explained it in a way arbitrarily exclusive. "He of the north made out that the sun never shone on the summit of Yung-Tshi, and the inhabitant of the south affirmed that the health-giving shade was unknown there."
"I found myself one day on the slope of a hill named Yung-Tshi, and I remarked that the majority of the trees were stript of their foliage. "The season seeming to me not sufficiently advanced for this condition of vegetation, I exprest my astonishment to a passer-by, who replied to me: "'Alas!
If each one of the inhabitants of Yung-Tshi had followed this precept, instead of declaring that the hill never received the sun or that shade never fell upon it, they would each one have thought for himself. "At what conclusions should I arrive, if I had planted my trees on the opposite side?"
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