To the Editor of the "Norra-Cama Dairy News."
Sir,—I have read with much interest Mr. A. de C. Sowerby's article on the '""Hakkas of Fukien," but even with his corrections appearing in your yesterday's issue I do not quite follow his meaning with reference to the. Sons of Han." The expression "Sons of Han" was not known before the Han dynasty, B.C.206~—A.D.221, and it only afterwards became a synonym for the Chinese of north China, who adopted this appellation to distinguish themselves from the Mongols and Manchv@, t.e., Wi, and from this fact grew the well-known saying, BF img RK, ran- azu-han, ta-chang-fu, of the northerners, which is equivalent to the "Superior Man" of the Chinese Classics and the "Hita wa Bushi'* of the Japanese. The southerners were somewhat contemptuously called }§R, ran man, they are the "Manzi" of Marco Polo; but besides them there were
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