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Excerpt from The General History of China, Vol. 3: Containing a Geographical, Historical, Chronological, Political and Physical Description of the Empire of China, Chinese-Tartary, Corea, and Thibet
There is this Inconvenience in the Method, that Children imbibe an infinite number of Chimerical Notions in their molt tenders Years; for the Sun is reprelented by a Cock in a Hoop; the Moon by Rabbet pounding Rice in a Mortar; a fort of Demon, who holds Lightning in his Hand, nearly like the ah cient Reprefentation of 7upiter, {lands for Thunder; the Bonzes and their Miao, or Pagods are amoug? thefe Figures, fo that in armanner the poor Children fuck in with their Milk thefe firange Whimfies, tho' I am inform'd that this Method is but little in ufe at prefent.
The next Book they learn is called San tfee hing, containing the Duties of Children, and the Method of teaching them it confilts of feveral ibort Sentences of three Charafiers in Rhyme to help the Memory of Children: There is likewife another, the Sentences of which are of four-charaéters as likewife a Cate chifm made for the Chrif'tian Children, the Phrafes of which are but of four Letters, and which for this rea fon ls called Ssh'o tsi'e hing teen.
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