le dans la
langue chinoise de l'epoque, c'est-a-dire Man-tseu; mais, au lieu de
Manzi, les Mongols avaient adopte un autres nom, Nangias, dont il n'y a
pas trace dans Marco Polo. On pourrait multiplier ces exemples."
XXXIII., p. 456, n. Instead of _Hui Heng_, read _Hiu Heng_.
[1] _Industries anciennes et modernes de l'Empire chinois_. Paris,
1869, pp. 145, 149.
[2] _Resume des principaux Traites chinois sur la culture des muriers et
l'education des vers a soie_, Paris, 1837, p. 98. According to the
notions of the Chinese, Julien remarks, everything made from hemp like
cord and weavings is banished from the establishments where silkworms
are reared, and our European paper would be very harmful to the
latter. There seems to be a sympathetic relation between the silkworm
feeding on the leaves of the mulberry and the mulberry paper on which
the cocoons of the females are placed.
[3] _Ko chi king yuan_, Ch. 37, p. 6.
[4] _Relations des Musulmans avec les Chinois (Centenaire de
l'Ecole des Langues Orientales vivante_, Paris, 1895, p. 17).
[5] Ibid., p. 20.
[6] _Ming Shi_, Ch. 81, p. 1.--The same text is found on a bill issued in
1375 reproduced and translated by W. Vissering (_On Chinese Currency_,
see plate at end of volume), the minister of finance being expressly
ordered to use the fibres of the mulberry tree in the composition of
these bills.
[7] _Memoires relatifs a l'Asie_, Vol. I., p. 387.
[8] A. WYLIE, _Notes on Chinese Literature_, p. 64. The copy used by
me (in the John Crerar Library of Chicago) is an old manuscript
clearly written in 4 vols. and chapters, illustrated by nine
ink-sketches of types of Mohammedans and a map. The volumes are not
paged.
[9] _Ancient Khotan_, Vol. I., p. 134.
[10] _Mikroskopische Untersuchung alter ostturkestanischer Papiere_, p. 9
(Vienna, 1902). I cannot pass over in silence a curious error of this
scholar when he says (p. 8) that it is not proved that _Cannabis
sativa_ (called by him "genuine hemp") is cultivated in China, and
that the so-called Chinese hemp-paper should be intended for China
grass. Every tyro in things Chinese knows that hemp (_Cannabis
sativa_) belongs to the oldest cultivated plants of the Chinese, and
that hemp-paper is already listed among the papers invented by Ts'ai
Lun in A.D. 105 (cf. CHAVANNES, _Les livres chinois avant l'invention
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