Chinese Pictures : Notes On Photographs Made in China
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It is a most beautiful structure, both in form and colour. The roof is of green tiles, the inside being lined with crimson lacquer, deeply incised in gold with the names of the donors. 48 THE BRIDGE OF MIEN CHUH SZE CHUAN. I) A SIMPLE COUNTRY BRIDGE. The kind of bridge found on a second- ary road in Sze Chuan, constructed of wood roofed in with tiles, after the manner of Switzerland, to protect it from the weather. A SIMPLE COUNTRY BRIDGE. A DRAGON BRIDGE. Ol'ite a common form of stone bridge, ...in which every pier is surmounted by a dragon, the national emblem. A DRAGON BRIDGE. THE ZIG-ZAG BRIDGE OF SHANGHAI. Its name indicates its peculiar charac- ter. It makes nine zig-zags across the water to the most celebrated tea house in Shanghai, and, perhaps, the most fashionable tea house in China. It is the resort of mandarins and people of the upper classes. Women are never seen at the tea houses. They are patronised by men only. Women, indeed, are ^'ery little seen in public at all. The absence of the female element is a marked feature in Chinese hfe.
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