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[[underlined]] APPENDIX II. [[/underlined]] 23. The people of Wu, we are told blackened their teeth, tattooed themselves, went about naked, [[superscript]] (60) [[/superscript]] and cut their hair short (in distinction to the ------------------------------------ [[superscript]] (60) [[/superscript]] Perhaps however the meaning is, simply, that they went about bareheaded. The point is that among the ancient Chinese, clothing and headgear of various kinds played a part of great importance. ------------------------------------- Chinese proper of that day, who wore theirs long and done up in a knot on top of the head, like modern Taoist priests or old-fashioned Koreans). They were far more at home on the water than on land; and they worshiped mountains, rivers, and many spirits, among them that of the famous Hangchow bore. [[superscript]] (61) [[/superscript]] ------------------------------------- [[superscript]] (61) [[/superscript]] The last-named cult, attached to the name of a historical human personage, has survived to the present day. ------------------------------------- Just as in Ch'u [[strikethrough]] (see page 17 of this Appendix) [[/strikethrough]] and in fact in southern China generally, so too in Wu, the position of woman was much freer, the marriage-tie more easily broken, than in northern China; and according to the rigidly patriarchal code in force in the latter region, their morals were very loose. [[superscript]] (62) [[/superscript]] ------------------------------------- [[superscript]] (62) [[/superscript]] The character [[underline]] yu [[/underline]] 娱, meaning "pleasure", or with verbal force, "to give pleasure", is formed of a combination of those for "woman" and "Wu"---doubtless an echo of this belief. ------------------------------------- The [[underlined]] Su-chou Fu chih [[/underlined]] 蘇州府志, probably based on authentic earlier records, states that elephants were used to transport earth for the tomb of King Ho Liu (already mentioned) [[strikethrough]] see page 21 of this Appendix [[/strikethrough]] [[superscript]] (63) [[/superscript]]. -a ------------------------------------- [[superscript]] (63) [[/superscript]] This tomb is still shown, in a rocky knoll just northwest of the present Soochow; its construction gives a much higher idea of the civilization of ancient Wu than the surviving [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] records would lead us to suspect existed there. ------------------------------------- by no means incredible assertion, since as we have seen, [[strikethrough]] (page 15 and note 41 of this Appendix), [[/strikethrough]] these animals were kept in captivity in ancient China, and we know too that they survived in the Yangtze basin until a com-
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