Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PROLOGUE
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- CHAPTER I MY FIRST VISIT TO PEKING: BEFORE THE SIEGE
- CHAPTER II PILOT TOWN: TAKU
- CHAPTER III AUGUST TN CHEFOO
- CHAPTER IV ON THE WALLS OF SHANGHAI CITY
- CHAPTER V INSIDE SHANGHAI CITY
- CHAPTER VI INTO THE CHINESE COUNTRY
- CHAPTER VII APRIL NEAR NINGPO
- CHAPTER VIII SEPTEMBER IN WUHU
- CHAPTER IX THE DRAGON KING'S CAVERN AND DOME: ICHANG
- CHAPTER X FENGTU: THE CHINESE HADES
- CHAPTER XI CHEAP MISSIONARIES
- CHAPTER XII LIFE ON A FARMSTEAD: FIFTEEN HUNDRED MILES INSIDE CHINA
- CHAPTER XIII ANTI-FOREIGN RIOTS IN WESTERN CHINA
- CHAPTER XVI FURTHER ALARMS OF RIOTS
- CHAPTER XIV “BAD” WENTANG
- CHAPTER XVI LITTLE KNOWN BORDER TRIBES
- CHAPTER XVII TABLE DECORATIONS
- CHAPTER XVIII WHAT ARE MISSIONARIES DOING?
- CHAPTER XIX PART I.—AN ANTI-FOOTBINDING TOUR TO HANKOW, WUCHANG, HAN-YANG, CANTON AND HONG-KONG
- CHAPTER XX PART II.—TO MACAO, SWATOW, AMOY, FOOCHOW, HANGCHOW AND SOOCHOW
CHAPTER XIV - “BAD” WENTANG
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2011
- Frontmatter
- PROLOGUE
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- CHAPTER I MY FIRST VISIT TO PEKING: BEFORE THE SIEGE
- CHAPTER II PILOT TOWN: TAKU
- CHAPTER III AUGUST TN CHEFOO
- CHAPTER IV ON THE WALLS OF SHANGHAI CITY
- CHAPTER V INSIDE SHANGHAI CITY
- CHAPTER VI INTO THE CHINESE COUNTRY
- CHAPTER VII APRIL NEAR NINGPO
- CHAPTER VIII SEPTEMBER IN WUHU
- CHAPTER IX THE DRAGON KING'S CAVERN AND DOME: ICHANG
- CHAPTER X FENGTU: THE CHINESE HADES
- CHAPTER XI CHEAP MISSIONARIES
- CHAPTER XII LIFE ON A FARMSTEAD: FIFTEEN HUNDRED MILES INSIDE CHINA
- CHAPTER XIII ANTI-FOREIGN RIOTS IN WESTERN CHINA
- CHAPTER XVI FURTHER ALARMS OF RIOTS
- CHAPTER XIV “BAD” WENTANG
- CHAPTER XVI LITTLE KNOWN BORDER TRIBES
- CHAPTER XVII TABLE DECORATIONS
- CHAPTER XVIII WHAT ARE MISSIONARIES DOING?
- CHAPTER XIX PART I.—AN ANTI-FOOTBINDING TOUR TO HANKOW, WUCHANG, HAN-YANG, CANTON AND HONG-KONG
- CHAPTER XX PART II.—TO MACAO, SWATOW, AMOY, FOOCHOW, HANGCHOW AND SOOCHOW
Summary
TWENTY miles south of Chungking the range of mountains, that shields the eastern face of Szechuan's commercial centre, harbours a sequestered valley, in the floor of which bubble up the hot springs called by the Chinese Wen-tang. Having never visited a Chinese inland watering-place, we thought a visit to the Wen-tang would form a pleasant outing for the Christmas holidays, and accordingly, packing up our beds and a change of clothing, we set out on Christmas Eve to make the journey. Crossing the great river by the ferry to Hai-tan-chi, a long straggling village composed of a narrow, winding street of steep, stone steps, the terminus of the Great Kweichow Road, we ascended a thousand feet to the pass of “Hoang-ko Ya” (Banian Gap), so called from a group of magnificent Finis infectoria shading the last few hundred yards of the winding stone staircase, that leads to the summit of the gap, a thousand feet above the river. And leaving on our left the beautifullywooded peak of Lao-chun-tung, with its groups of halls and temples, rising in terraces one behind the other (commemorating some say the retreat in this spot of the philosopher Lao-tze, 600 B.C.), we traversed the Straszendorf, the narrow, covered-in street of which forms the first halting place for travellers bound from Chungking to the south. This pass leads into an upland valley, bounded on the east by another and loftier pine-clad range, its floor, here half a mile wide, terraced into an endless succession of paddy-fields, now clad in their winter garb of stagnant, but clear, water; their banks green with bean plants just beginning to flower.
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- The Land of the Blue Gown , pp. 251 - 261Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1902