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Title: China, its costume, arts, manufactures, &c. : edited principally from the originals in the cabinet of the late M. Bertin, with observations explanatory, historical, and literary
Year: 1812 (1810s)
Authors: Breton, M. (Jean Baptiste Joseph) Bertin, Henri-Léonard-Jean-Baptiste, 1719-1792 Freschi, Andrea, b. 1774
Subjects: Costume
Publisher: London : Printed for J.J. Stockdale ...
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s abuses are the con-sequence of it, and which would be stillmore fatal were not most of the drugs ofthe Chinese pharmacopoeia, extremely E 2 S6 CHINA, ITS COSTUME, simple. The medicine-sellers, who areseen in the streets, public j^laces, andfairs, sell nothing but purgative woodsand preparations of certain dried herbs.The simples are not very dissimilar tothe Swiss vulnerary, to which Europeanquacks ascribe extraordinary virtues, butwhich, at any rate, is not susceptible ofdoing very material harm. The workman represented in this Platehas his hair rolled round his head in anout-of-the-way manner, which requiressome explanation. The Chinese would often find them-selves inconnnoded in their work, if theysuffered the long tress of hair, whichhangs at the back of their heads, to beimconfnied; this tliey obviate by knottingit circularly about their head, whichotherwise is absolutely bare and shaved.The same kind of head-dress is seen inseveral both of the preceding and subse-quent Plates.
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■ITrrsriii sfuiisit .1P®IE,3S ^B^SS-JE^m,. Afif^..f :Ucf)-/Sj^ ln/.7Srin-/idu/,.4i FanMh/l ARTS, AND MANUFACTURES. 57 PORK-SELLER. The flesh-meat, which is in most generalconsumption in China, is that of the pig;it is more wholesome and deHcate thanin Europe. The Chinese hams are veryhighly esteemed, and foreigners purchasethem in considerable quantities at Can-ton. Ihey breed pigs, not only by land, butin boats. They are generally fishermenwho keep them in this way, feeding themwith the entrails of the fish which theycatch. The Chinese prefer the pig andthe goose to all other domestic animals,because they are more easily brought up,and their flesh is more savoury and con-tains more fat. e3 £8 CHINA, ITS COSTUME, The sale of ox-flesh is not authorizedby the police; the itinerant butchers whocarry on this trade are obliged to cry itas mutton. This prohibition is foundedon the scarcity of horned cattle, the breedof which they wish to increase; forthe Chinese, unlike the Mahometansan

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