DOI Heft:
Nr. 332 (January 1925)
DOI Artikel:Day, Edward G.: Ningpo wood carvings
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19984#0053
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"fishing nets" "man carrying baskets of fish"
nets are trailed behind boats, or larger ones of flat fish, white and pink fish, shellfish, shrimps,
finer mesh are cast from fishing canoes. Many crabs, oysters, eels and turtles. When your
times have I seen six or eight of these canoes on Chinese cook has made his choice for your table,
the Djien Tank River swing into a V-formation, do not be surprised if, in true Chinese style, he
have watched them make the cast and waited for serves it up on the platter with its head and tail
the nets to strike the water simultaneously with still intact. The guest of the day may further-
their peculiar swishing sound. In the wood-carv- more consider himself honored, also, if the head
ing here portrayed of the man with his bag-net, the be turned in his direction.
net is of cloth and not of carved wood. A friend A great part of the life of China is concerned
of mine tells me of an ivory carving in which the with water and waterways. The ancient stone
net which the fishermen are hanging on the bough arched bridges over the latter combine grace and
of a tree to dry is so exquisitely carved that one strength. The classic type is that of the "camel's
would think that its flexible folds were woven of back" bridge in the lake in front of the Imperial
silk. Summer Palace near Peking, an admirable speci-
As a rule the Chinese prefer not to carry any- men of workmanship in cut and mortised stone,
thing by hand. Where an American is used to Comparatively few bridges are built high enough
carrying a suitcase or two with determined grip, to allow boats to clear without having to lower
the Chinese promptly hoists his luggage to his their masts. Very often a small shrine is con-
shoulder (in Chinese to bay it); or in the case of nected with a bridge wherein to house its tutela
two pieces, he slings them to the
ends of a carrying stick (in Chinese
to t'iao them). So the fish-monger
does his baskets. If a man has only
one pig to carry to market, he will
tie it in one basket, place a heavy
stone in the other to balance, and
march off happy in such a simple
solution of his problem.
The fish-market on a summer
morning is the smelliest place imag-
inable. Stacked on trays in the open
shop are all kinds of dried fish, redo-
lent in the extreme, while along the
curb are many more of the finny
tribe, some dead and freshly packed
in ice, some alive and swimming
about in tubs: big fish, little fish,
short fish and long fish, round fish,
ry
wood sawyers"
january I925
three thirteen
"fishing nets" "man carrying baskets of fish"
nets are trailed behind boats, or larger ones of flat fish, white and pink fish, shellfish, shrimps,
finer mesh are cast from fishing canoes. Many crabs, oysters, eels and turtles. When your
times have I seen six or eight of these canoes on Chinese cook has made his choice for your table,
the Djien Tank River swing into a V-formation, do not be surprised if, in true Chinese style, he
have watched them make the cast and waited for serves it up on the platter with its head and tail
the nets to strike the water simultaneously with still intact. The guest of the day may further-
their peculiar swishing sound. In the wood-carv- more consider himself honored, also, if the head
ing here portrayed of the man with his bag-net, the be turned in his direction.
net is of cloth and not of carved wood. A friend A great part of the life of China is concerned
of mine tells me of an ivory carving in which the with water and waterways. The ancient stone
net which the fishermen are hanging on the bough arched bridges over the latter combine grace and
of a tree to dry is so exquisitely carved that one strength. The classic type is that of the "camel's
would think that its flexible folds were woven of back" bridge in the lake in front of the Imperial
silk. Summer Palace near Peking, an admirable speci-
As a rule the Chinese prefer not to carry any- men of workmanship in cut and mortised stone,
thing by hand. Where an American is used to Comparatively few bridges are built high enough
carrying a suitcase or two with determined grip, to allow boats to clear without having to lower
the Chinese promptly hoists his luggage to his their masts. Very often a small shrine is con-
shoulder (in Chinese to bay it); or in the case of nected with a bridge wherein to house its tutela
two pieces, he slings them to the
ends of a carrying stick (in Chinese
to t'iao them). So the fish-monger
does his baskets. If a man has only
one pig to carry to market, he will
tie it in one basket, place a heavy
stone in the other to balance, and
march off happy in such a simple
solution of his problem.
The fish-market on a summer
morning is the smelliest place imag-
inable. Stacked on trays in the open
shop are all kinds of dried fish, redo-
lent in the extreme, while along the
curb are many more of the finny
tribe, some dead and freshly packed
in ice, some alive and swimming
about in tubs: big fish, little fish,
short fish and long fish, round fish,
ry
wood sawyers"
january I925
three thirteen