Note 250 — CXXXI. THE WEI-CH‘I DEVIL.
Herbert Allen Giles translation
On this day, annually dedicated to kite-flying, picnics, and good cheer, everybody tries to get up to as great an elevation as possible, in the hope, as some say, of thereby prolonging life. It was this day—4th October, 1878—which was fixed for the total extermination of foreigners in Foochow. return to footnote anchor 250 return to footnote anchor 268