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The Civilization Of China

CHAPTER I--THE FEUDAL AGE
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Bride and bridegroom must kneel down and call God to witness; they also pledge each other in wine from two cups joined together by a red string.

Red is the colour for joy, as white is the colour for mourning.

Chinese note-paper is always ruled with red lines or stamped with a red picture.

One Chinese official who gave a dinner-party in foreign style, even went so far as to paste a piece of red paper on to each dinner-napkin, in order to counteract the unpropitious influence of white.
Reference has been made above to journeys performed by boat.

In addition to the Yangtsze and the Yellow River or Hoang ho (pronounced _Hwong haw_), two of the most important rivers in the world, China is covered with a network of minor streams, which in southern China form the chief lines of transport.


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