This was a bowl given to Dr. Virgil Hart  by Cheng Te Tung: Viceroy of Nanking                                                                            The color yellow was only reserved for the emperor to have his things adorned with

                                 in dynastic times

       

                                                                                                                                                       Chinese

peasant man

                                                                                                                       

                                        

            

       Wearing winter quilted clothing           Wedding procession                                                                              

       

     A former street arch now confined to an alley                                                           Flood refugees                                                                

                                

               

        Water buffalo, still in use today       Mobile hand irrigation "paddle wheel" pump            

                                                                            

     

             Treadle wheel irrigation pump                                Clothes washing

                                                                                                                                                             

Wind operated water pump

Herding ducks to the fields

Herding ducks from a tub cut from a wooden barrel

       Child with child on its back                                Children's faces without smiles: notice                                                                                        the girls feet are not bound

                                                                       

Boys fingering through a book

Chinese family: even today the Chinese rarely smile when photographed

        

Braiding the hairstyle of the Qing Dynasty       Freshly made noodles laid out to dry

   

Coal Bunking a ship                                                    Dragon Boat Festival races

 

          

     Drilling platform, note all the rope        Decorated pier                                                            Street vendor      strewn about