DOI issue:
Nr. 332 (January 1925)
DOI article:Day, Edward G.: Ningpo wood carvings
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19984#0057
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jinricsha wheel-barrow
chair is the open chair, made usually of wicker or tired, wire-spokcd, yellow-varnished ricsha which
split bamboo. Being light and airy, it is the prel- they rented out by the day to the coolie pullers,
erable for summer use. This type is much in The life of the ricsha-coolies is not easy. Out
demand at the Ts'ing-Ming festival in the spring- in ah sorts of weather and all hours of the day or
time, when thousands of men and women visit night, shivering in winter and sweltering in sum-
their family grave-plots to burn paper money and mer, no wonder they are rarely free from a tuber-
offer food to the ancestral spirits. cular cough, and no surprise is it to be told that
The word jinricsba is a combination of three their average life is a matter of only three years,
words: jin—meaning man, ric—strength, and sha The wheelbarrow is used perhaps more in
—cart. It is therefore a one-man-power-cart. northern China than in any other part. It is,
The name is usually shortened to ricsha. This however, the cheapest mode of baggage transfer in
mode of conveyance was first invented and used Shanghai, and is also extensively used in Nanking,
by a missionary in Japan. When still in its iron- The water-buffalo, or carabao, is the farmer's
tired stage it was introduced into China under friend. It is used for plowing, harrowing, and
the appellation of Dong-yian-ts'o (Ningpo dialect turning the pump which irrigates the rice fields;
for Japanese-cart). About nine or ten years ago occasionally it is employed to pull crude wagons
Shanghai manufacturers produced a pneumatic- across flooded lowlands to meet the river steamers.
"plowman with water buffalo"
jinricsha wheel-barrow
chair is the open chair, made usually of wicker or tired, wire-spokcd, yellow-varnished ricsha which
split bamboo. Being light and airy, it is the prel- they rented out by the day to the coolie pullers,
erable for summer use. This type is much in The life of the ricsha-coolies is not easy. Out
demand at the Ts'ing-Ming festival in the spring- in ah sorts of weather and all hours of the day or
time, when thousands of men and women visit night, shivering in winter and sweltering in sum-
their family grave-plots to burn paper money and mer, no wonder they are rarely free from a tuber-
offer food to the ancestral spirits. cular cough, and no surprise is it to be told that
The word jinricsba is a combination of three their average life is a matter of only three years,
words: jin—meaning man, ric—strength, and sha The wheelbarrow is used perhaps more in
—cart. It is therefore a one-man-power-cart. northern China than in any other part. It is,
The name is usually shortened to ricsha. This however, the cheapest mode of baggage transfer in
mode of conveyance was first invented and used Shanghai, and is also extensively used in Nanking,
by a missionary in Japan. When still in its iron- The water-buffalo, or carabao, is the farmer's
tired stage it was introduced into China under friend. It is used for plowing, harrowing, and
the appellation of Dong-yian-ts'o (Ningpo dialect turning the pump which irrigates the rice fields;
for Japanese-cart). About nine or ten years ago occasionally it is employed to pull crude wagons
Shanghai manufacturers produced a pneumatic- across flooded lowlands to meet the river steamers.
"plowman with water buffalo"