China As I Saw It : a Woman's Letters From the Celestial Empire
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They are returned at the com- mencement of winter — in excellent condition. I have been trying to buy myself a fur garment for my own wear, as, under the erroneous impression that the Szechuan climate was the same as that of the north of Egypt (the latitude of Chentu being 187 China as I Saw It nearly similar to that o£ Cairo), I have not brought anything of that kind with me ; but once again we are met with the unajiswerable argument, " This is the ' Ko Nien ' (New Year), no fur shops are open...." In spite of closed shutters and barred doors, the streets are still full of colour. The red lanterns bobbing over doorways, the red scroUs on the door- posts, the gay portraits of the door gods on the doors, the loiterers and passers-by in festive clothing, baby children in scarlet tunics, elder girls in trousers of poppy red, their fathers in sumptuous gowns of purple silk or pale green and golden plush, and the women with knots of artificial flowers of every colour of the rainbow in their black hair.
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