VOLUME II. TABLE OF CONTENTS

Established annual customs and festivals : Observations concerning the Chinese Year — Procession in Honor of Spring — New Year’s Festivities — Fes­tivals and Customs of first Month continued — Festivals and Customs of the second, third, and fourth Months — Festivals and Customs of the fifth Month — Festivals and Customs of the seventh Month — Festival and Customs of the eighth Month — Festivals and Customs of the ninth and eleventh Months — Festivals and Customs of the twelfth Month.

Singular and popular superstitions : Four Superstitions for the Benefit of destitute and unfortunate Spirits — Methods of ascertaining the Will of the Gods or deceased Ancestors in frequent Use — Praying for Rain — The Bread-loaf Superstition — Mis­cellaneous Superstitious Practices.

Business Customs : System of Gobetweens or Middlemen in the Transaction of important Business — Banking, Bank-bills, and Cash — Money-lending Clubs without Interest — Trading and Shop-keeping — Miscellaneous Business Customs.

Meritorious or charitable practices : Distribution of Moral and Religious Books and Tracts — Reverence for Lettered Paper — Native Foundling Asylum — Societies for the Relief of Indigent and Virtuous Widows — So­cieties relating to Marriages and Funerals — Vows relating to the Lives of Animals — The Merit of eating Vegetables and abstaining from Animal Food — Popular Sentiments relating to killing the Buffalo and eating its Flesh — Miscellaneous Works of Charity and of Merit.

Social Customs : The small bandaged Feet of Females — Female Infanticide — Domestic Slavery — Voluntary Clubs — Celebrations of Birthdays — Privileges of Primogeniture and other Family Matters — Common Use of Samshu or Chinese Wine — Giving and receiving Presents — The Tonsure and the Cue — Customs relating to Neighborhoods and to Neighborhood Temples — Customs relating to Lepers — Customs relating to Beggars.

Miscellaneous opinions and practices : The Dragon and the Phœnix — Proverbs and Book Phrases — Chinese Cursing — Preparation and Use of Mock-money — Jugglers — Gamblers — Farces — Sports and Plays — Playacting — Jottings on various Subjects.

Charms and Omens : Charms or Amulets to expel or keep away evil Spirits and unpropitions Influences — Diabolical Charms — Ominous Words and Sentences — Miscellaneous Omens for Good or Evil.

Fortune-telling : Six Methods of Fortune-telling — Explanation of Terms used — Se­lection of Fortunate Days.

Opium and opium-smoking.

Chinese and scripture customs.

Missionary topics : Principles of the true Religion unknown in China before the Introduction of Christianity — Relation of native Helpers to the Evangelization of China — Im­portance of Special Prayer for Native Helpers as a Class — Peculiar or extraordinary Obstacles to the rapid Evangelization of the Chinese — The Duty of the Church in view of there peculiar and extraordinary Obstacles in China.

Interior view of Pekin.