Chinese pictures : notes on photographs made in China (1900)
Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy), 1831-1904 · London ; New York : Cassell and Company · leaf 126
fine ones are often foundat the entrance of very squalid villages.They are erections put up to honourwidows who, faithful to the memonr oftheir husbands, have remained widows,devoting themselves to good works andto the service of their parents-in-law,which is the great duty of every goodwife.… … A PAI-FANG, OR WIDOWS ARCH. TWO SOLDIERS OFSZE CHUAN. The military are usually dressed inpicturesque but unserviceable, not to saygrotesque costumes, the carnation red,beloved of the Chinese, and blue beingthe prevailing colours. They carry fans,and often paper umbrellas. They areill-trained and…
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