Typical Women of China

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Kelly & Walsh, 1899 - 192 หน้า
 

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หน้า 167 - Sons shall be born to him ; They will be put to sleep on couches ; They will be clothed in robes ; They will have sceptres to play with ; Their cry will be loud. They will be (hereafter) resplendent with red knee-covers, The (future) king, the princes of the land.
หน้า 118 - It is characteristic of the most entire sincerity to be able to foreknow. When a nation or family is about to flourish, there are sure to be happy omens; and when it is about to perish, there are sure to be unlucky omens.
หน้า 135 - A wise man builds up the wall (of a city), But a wise woman overthrows it. Admirable may be the wise woman, But she is (no better than) an owl.
หน้า 162 - In the seventh month, the Fire Star passes the meridian; In the ninth month, clothes are given out. With the spring days the warmth begins, And the oriole utters its song. The young women take their deep baskets, And go along the small paths, Looking for the tender leaves of the mulberry trees. As the spring days lengthen out, They gather in crowds the white southernwood. When the young ladies' hearts are wounded with hardship, They begin to have the common idea with the princesses, wishing to marry.
หน้า 177 - She gathers the large duckweed, By the banks of the stream in the southern valley. She gathers the pondweed, In those pools left by the floods. She deposits what she gathers, In her square baskets and round ones. She boils it, In her tripods and pans. She sets forth her preparations, Under the window in the ancestral chamber 1. Who superintends the business ? It is (this) reverent young lady. 1
หน้า 146 - THE MOST BEAUTIFUL OF CHINESE WOMEN: HSI SHIH (ABOUT 495-472 BC) 'Herjingers were like the blades of the young white grass, Her skin was like congealed ointment, Her neck was like the tree grub, Her teeth were like melon-seeds ; Her forehead cicada-like, her eyebrows like (the antennae of the silkworm moth) ; What dimples as she artfully smiled! How lovely her eyes, with the black and white so well defined!
หน้า vii - ... marriage she must obey her father; when married she must obey her husband ; after her husband's death she must obey her son. She must not presume to follow her own judgment.
หน้า 11 - If he very much approves of his wife, and his parents do not like her, he should divorce her'. If he do not approve of his wife, and his parents say, 'she serves us well,' he should behave to her in all respects as his wife,—without fail even to the end of her life.
หน้า x - The father should behave as a father, the son as a son, the elder brother as an elder brother, the younger brother as a younger brother, the husband as a husband, the wife as a wife.
หน้า viii - Go to rest late and arise early, dreading not the earliest dawn, before the' darkness flees. Be industrious, never refuse one task because it is difficult, nor slight another because it is easy. Cultivate thoroughness in all you do, and order everything methodically. Be sedate and...

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