That there was such a blonde race in north western China up until the 3rd Century B.C. is well known. Migratin before the advance of the Huns, these folk, the Yueh Shih, or Yueh Chih, or Yueh Ti, as you like, dominated what is now Turkestan until the time of the early Mohammedan conquests in Central Asia, became Buddhists and left manvscript records of themselves in a borrowed Aramaic script. Some of these ro-cords, which have been unearthed by various logists during the past twenty years, are in language closely allied to old Persian, some show Slavic affinities, while others are said to be in 'a tongue rather Indo-Germanic than Indo-European. Ancient China must have been in close contact with these people for centuries before their eviction by the Huns, but it is not until some centuries after the Christian era that Chinese waiters begin to comment upon light Hair and eyes as unusual features, though the black hair of the aborigines is the subject of constant remark in the oldest records; so one cannot avoid thinking that the Po-hsing must have been our remote With this at the back of one's ancient Chinese traditions take on a new interest. and, knowing how tenaciously a people clings to its holidays and the rites associated with them, the resident in China should be moved to study Chinese ceremonies with a new interest.
Like our own forefathers, the Chinese have four seasonal holidays which are faithfully observed. The New Year-is present far removed from the Wi solstice, The Ching Mi enoa to Easter to serve' as a Spring festival,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.