Chau Ju-Kua - University of Oregon Libraries
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178 ISLAND OF HAINAN. 1,46<br />
Prefectural Finance Commissioner {}]] oj ^) lie taught the people (<strong>of</strong> K'iungchou)<br />
to read books and to compose (^ ^)^ During the kHng-li period (1041—<br />
1049) Earl Sung <strong>Kua</strong>n-chi (^ ^ ;^)<br />
built the prefectural college, which was<br />
renovated in the Mng-wu year <strong>of</strong> the Tiia-ting period (1210) by Earl <strong>Chau</strong> <strong>Ju</strong>-<br />
hia (^ f^ ^), on which occasion tablets to the manes <strong>of</strong> Dukes Su Tung-po 5<br />
iW- Mr ^) ^^^ Hu Tan-an (]^ '^ ^) were erected on the east and west<br />
sides <strong>of</strong> the Lecture hall, and on the tablet <strong>of</strong> the hall was written iming<br />
tam (^ ^ ((Understanding and Methods or «Enlighteners <strong>of</strong> the Way»)^°.<br />
In Hai-k'6u (y$ P) there is a «Temple <strong>of</strong> the two Fu-po <strong>of</strong> the Han<br />
dynasty)) (>^ M ik^&. M)' where the manes <strong>of</strong> Lu Po-to ({^ ]^ f^)<br />
and lo<br />
Ma Yiian {^ j^) are worshipped. Those who pass by on the sea must pray<br />
here, and no one may pursue his journey before learning his luck from tlie<br />
pei-kiau tablets (i^ 3^)"-<br />
Five towns, K'iung shan (j| jij), Ch'ong-mai ('^ ^), Lin-kau (^<br />
j^), W5n-ch'ang (^ ^) and Lo-hui (^ ^), are subordinate to this 15<br />
district (<strong>of</strong> K'iung-chou), and in each <strong>of</strong> them there is a Maritime Customs<br />
Collector (1^ ^y^.<br />
The junks which trade there are divided into three classes: the first is<br />
called po (^), the second pau-fou (^ H), the third tan (^)'^. When a<br />
junk arrives, a Customs Inspector ("/^ ^) reports the fact to the District 20<br />
Magistrate who then sends an <strong>of</strong>ficer to gauge the tonnage and determine<br />
(^I>|),<br />
the regulation duty. Officials <strong>of</strong> all ranks, as well as the soldiers, look to this<br />
(duty) for their maintenance.<br />
After a journey <strong>of</strong> 236 li farther west the military district (^ f^) <strong>of</strong><br />
Ch'ang-hua ( ^ ^) is reached. 25<br />
Ch'ang-hua is situated to the north-west <strong>of</strong> the Li-mu mountain, and is<br />
the same as the ancient Tan-ch6u ". The city walls are fourteen feet high<br />
and measure 220 paces (p'u) around. According to ancient records the city<br />
was built by the noblewoman Tan-ir (j^ ^ ^ \y, she made the goblins<br />
(51)<br />
work in a single night.<br />
"""ork for her, and they with baskets and shovels completed the whole so<br />
According to another version the people <strong>of</strong> this country were called<br />
Tan-ir (i. e., ependant ears») because their ears hung down on their shoul-<br />
ders. Although at the present time no children are born in Ch'ang-hua with<br />
long ears, nevertheless the Li, as devout Buddhists, put big rings in their 35<br />
ears, making them to reach down to the shoulders ^^<br />
The country is free from epidemics (i. e., malaria) and marshes. As the<br />
climate is absolutely different to that <strong>of</strong> China, all flowers bud early in the
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