All the ancient tales associated with names of places in Cuina are as a vale very interesting and quaint, but the following, which accounts for the changing of the lower portions of the Chingkiang or Long River into Yangtzekiang, or Tea Tree River, would be hard to heat for prettiness of idea and quaintness, The Emperor Chany Sung was accustomed to leave his palace Nanking (or Southern Capital) and rowed down the river to a tea house in which there was " beautiful singing gir, Tsi by name, with a lovely voice, for from the Emperor held n rear platonic. lore. On the waters in front of the tea house the Emperor Chang Sung used to remain in his boat while the beautiful Juliet used to sing to him from the upper storey of the tea house. Then it ovine about that the Eimperor wus detained for many days over State matters and could not pay his ave noon visits; those others maidens who had previously been jealous of the evident reference which the Emperor had for the ale one, began to tease her and say the Emperor had found some one else to amuse him. This so preyed on the mind of the beautiful singer Isi, whose regard for her royal Master was seep and sincere, that she threw herself into ther and was drowned, On learning which the Emperor's grief was toyond hounds, and he took a morbid enjoyment in gain to the old hun, where lo said he could hear the voice of his lost love singing in her death to him. But the sight of the tea house filled him with too much sadness, so in order to hide it from view he ordered the whole south bank of the river to be planted with Yangtze or tea tree, and only when these grew up to hide the tea house did the voice of the lost one cease tingling in his ex, but a new amusement had come for him in seeing to the proper cultivation of his Yangtze, or tea tee, And thus was a little singing girl the meos of changing the name Tiver, or rather that portion of it between Nanking and the sea, for the higher waters (ong River). should still properly he called Chang Kiang
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