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[Page 1] 欠 ch'ien4 to owe. "a weight on the head of a man. Hence the Chinese saying 欠字壓人頭 debt weighs a man to earth - Giles.
寸 [glyph] Cf. 寸脈 mo5 = pulse an from hand.
耄 mao = an expression for 90 years.
上古結繩記事 - See 易經
琀 "han" to fill the mouth of the dead with jade
凹 wa1 concave - a picture of a tile
臭自大是個臭 self 自 and great 大 make up a stinker - ie people who think a lot of themselves stink. Here the character 臭 is regarded as composed of 自 and 大
塔 t'a3 = earth 土, and answer 答, the pagoda rising heavenward gives concrete expression to the Chinese doctrine that heaven's influences are helpful and can be responded to on earth by human aspiration - J Leighton Stuart in "The Chinese Mind & the Gospel."
牛 [glyph] niu cow as seen from above. All Chinese pictures must be viewed from above.
善 shan = [glyph] harmony in speech 言 like a sheep 羊
偷 t'ou steal. The old form is 媮 which probably is an attempt to do justice to women. 女 - Wilder
旦 tan dawn Compare 昜
[Page 2] 洄 hui2 an eddy, a whirlpool, water flowing round and round.
犧 hsi1 originally a sacrificial vessel shaped like an ox 牛 or rhinocerous of which there is one in the Hist. Museum Peking. Not until this was found was it known what the [?] originally ment. - first a sacrificial victim 牛, later any kind of sacrifice cf. hsi1 sheng.
歪 wai awry, askant 不 正
俚 li3 commonplace, vulgar = a man 人 who dwells in a village 里
覔 mi (a 覓) To seek to hunt what is 不見
眇 miao3 One-eyed, to take aim
氓 mang2 Fugitives, gypsies. Also written 甿
宿 su hotel - hundred men under roof
愁 autumn - heatedness ie melancholy.
[Page 3] A wise man is the teacher of a hundred generations - Mencius.
Wherever you go, mother is the only relationship; whatever you eat salt gives the best taste.
He who owes no debt can sleep in a beaten drum.
Much talk - loud thunder and little rain.
Make friends with merchants and your wealth will grow.
Make friends with nobles and your wealth will go.
Make friends with boors and learn to use your fists.
Make friends with priests and sign subscription lists. - Arthur Guiterman "Chips Jade" E.P. Dutton + Co.
Your arm is broken? Do not grieve[?] aloud, but hide it in your sleeve.
得禮還禮，總不過意 though a present is returned for the present received, one is still not satisfied, - there is the good intention of the original sender which remains unrequited - Giles 6949.
十世修來同般渡
百世修來共枕眼 Those who have in 10 lives cultivated virtue may [?] in the same boat. Those who have in a
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[Page 1] hundred lives (generations) cultivated virtue may sleep in the same bed.
要得好問三老 To get good advice ask three old men.
買把扇子遮臉 Buy a fan to cover your face. Said to another as request; to self as apology.
屁股掛鑰匙鎖 管那一門 Your rump is heavy with keys, but what gate do you keep? Said for neglect of duty.
說話時短，記話時長 It takes little time to administer reproof but a long time to forget it.
事怕當面 When men face each other their difficulties vanish.
兩個學生打架為筆 Innuendo. Two scholars fighting for a pencil - impossible 未必
狗仗人勢 a dog relies on his master's influence.
是個人被天地磨成不是 個人被天敵磨壞 Cf. one is a man the wills of heaven and earth grind him to perfection, if not to destruction - Giles see 磨 mo2
千里馬還有千里人 to fill a great position it is necessary to have great abilities.
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[Page 3] 票 p'iao [glyph] 火 fire and smoke [glyph] controlled by hands [glyph] on signal towers, hence to signal.
關 kuan The [glyph] way mean the common iron catch [glyph] to hold the bar.
象 hsiang original meaning an elephant Han Fei (d 233 BC) gives this account of the derivation of the word: "Few people have seen a living elephant (because it is produced only in the 'southern barbarian' countries) Though they possess the bones (ivory) of dead ones. They only imagine its living shape from pictorial representations of it. Therefore all that man conceive in imagination is called hsiang' " (Han Fei Tzu XX)
聒 k'uo4 to make a din, noise (with the 舌 in the ear 耳.
焚 fen fire under wood.
Dr. Cendeesan of P.U.M.C. told me that the Chinese character for tooth 牙 is the exact marking on the most important lower molar [which?] tooth comes first and determines the structure of all the other teeth and the whole jaw, especially if a circle is put about it like this [glyph]
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[annotation] From A. W. Hummel, Sr Fenchow notebook
[text] Material for settler's home
Mr. Feng Chiin of Shangta. A convert during boxer times when no Christian Mission aries were here, just an ordinary farmer started opium refuge, after seeing himself always insists on having his opium patients sleep with him in the same room for "You can tell a man lots of things in dark that you can't tell him in day light" he says. Digging well without heathen rites. As Christians are exempt from contributing toward local village temple so when the village decided to dig a new well the Christians of Shangta offered to draw their interest in any good cause by digging it for them. But Feng - - refused to use heathen ceremony before beginning to dig. People horrified that men should dare be so impious to the earth dragon. While others Christians were digging Feng went around talking Christianity to the village pagans this was his chance you see. They got sweet water much to credit of the church and arrangement of villagers.
Unbound his wife's feet and had her walk 2 li to next village + back to show people that a woman with unbound feet could walk fast and erect. He had this exhibition every friday afternoon in midst of great crowd of villagers who watched the woman walking to a hillside near by.
Whipped his wife to hasten her conversion. He now confesses that procedure was a wrong one. This man is not under employ
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of church - just a lay farmer, during diptheria epidemic here in Jan Dr. Watson wrote to Peking officials to help us in preventing spread of the disease. The governor of Shansi was notified and he in turn then told city of Fenchow was right to do all he could to help. He sent word every where that people should ground pith of lambar.
The other day, Dr. Watson operated upon a Chinese into throat. woman for cataract, who had never before seen! two of her children. Imagine her joy to look into the faces of there her children for the first time.
Send articles on Chinese house inscriptions like one on Tungchow Temple, and give proverbs. Teacher astonished at our care in the use of time - rise at certain time, eat by clock etc. Told him mans life is short - like Jesus said "Must work works of him that sent us while day for night"
2 years ago parents of boys in school objected to Mr. Pye about athletics in the school (1) because it wore out the boy's shoes. (2) It made them eat too much which was to expensive. Of Chinese idea of feast. Greeting is Ch'ih lo fam. "Have you eaten"
Boy in country said to Mr. Pye after looking him over from every angle "why he has ears just exactly like we have.