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A36730	Atlas Chinensis being a second part of A relation of remarkable passages in two embassies from the East-India Company of the United Provinces to the vice-roy Singlamong and General Taising Lipovi and to Konchi, Emperor of China and East-Tartary : with a relation of the Netherlanders assisting the Tarter against Coxinga and the Chinese fleet, who till then were masters of the sea : and a more exact geographical description than formerly both of the whole empire of China in general and in particular of every of the fifteen provinces / collected out of their several writings and journals by Arnoldus Montanus ; English'd and adorn'd with above a hundred several sculptures by John Ogilby.	Montanus, Arnoldus, 1625?-1683.; Dapper, Olfert, 1639-1689.; Ogilby, John, 1600-1676.; Nederlandsche Oost-Indische Compagnie.; United Provinces of the Netherlands.	1671 (1671)	Wing D242; ESTC R5629	631,298	665

Stature white Skins brown Eyes and extraordinary small Feet in which last they account their chiefest Beauty to consist for though a Woman be never so fair yet she is accounted homely if she hath great Feet insomuch that the Mothers Swathe and Rowl up their Daughters Feet from their Infancy that by these Swathes which they wear all their Life-time they may prevent the natural growth of them This Swathing of their Feet often occasions in tender Bodies such a pain that they sometimes become lame of their Feet and decrepit yet the Women generally Dance prettily and make strange gestures with their bare Arms. Some will have it that this Swathing was inven●…ed by some politick and jealous Person that by this means they might be kept at home and prevented from walking the Streets which in that Countrey ●…edounds to the dishonor of the Women and disesteem of the Men. But as Martinius tells us this Custom was deriv'd from Taquia an ancient Empress of Che who though exceeding all other Women in Beauty had extraordinary small Feet which extreamly troubled her in going her Women hereupon in flattery imitated her and also to make their Feet smaller Swath'd them and this Custom to this day is of such Authority among them that should they behold a second Helen they would look upon her as a Monster if she had great Feet Others say that Taquia was no Woman but a Spirit in Female shape with Goats Feet which because she would not have them discover'd she kept continually wrap'd up and that from thence it hath also been a Custom for Women to cover their Feet which if they do not it is accounted very ridiculous Moreover in this they resemble Taquia that their Feet seem so little in their Shoes that they appear no bigger than Goats Feet The Chineses both Men and Women before the Conquering of the Empire of China by the Tartars are said to have wore long Hair on their Heads without ever Shaving it except Children who till the fifteenth year of their Age Shav'd their Heads only leaving a long Lock on their Crown after that time they suffer'd their Hair to grow without Shaving till they came to twenty years of age which was the time that Men putting on their Hat of Manhood an ancient Custom like that of the Toga Virilis amongst the Romans and let it hang loose over their Shoulders In the twentieth year they ty'd up their Hair and wore a Cap or Hat over it made of Horse-hair or Silk but this Cap was not us'd by the Women who went only with their Hair ty'd up and adorn'd with Gold Silver Precious-stones and all manner of curious Flowers and the like But there hath been since a great alteration in the Shaving and Wearing of their Hair for all those Chineses which were subdu'd by them were forc'd to Shave their Hair according to the Tartar fashion only reserving one Lock behind on their Heads wherefore the Hollanders generally call them Shaven Chineses as those who refusing to submit to the Tartars and to Shave off their Hair joyn'd with the Rebel K●…xinga are call'd Unshaven Chineses ●…ut in former times they took such a Pride in their long Hair that they rather chose to Die than lose the least Lock thereof nor was it only Pride but something of Superstition that made them so concern'd in long Hair for they like the Mahumetants entertain'd a simple Imagination that they should be pull'd up to Heaven by their Hair Nevertheless the Priests us'd in ancient times to Shave the Hair of their Heads and Beards every eighth day The Chineses also have a strange Opinion of themselves accounting none equal to them and looking upon all Affairs of foraign Kingdoms and People as not worthy their knowledge nor description insomuch that we find not any one Countrey which they have frequented with their Ships mention'd in their Histories when as they are very exact in the describing of those Countries within their own Dominions Moreover all the Names with which they express foraign places are ridiculous and signifying either Barbarians Slaves or the like for they never take notice of the proper and true Names of Strangers as for example they ridiculously name the Iapanners Vocu which by them signifies The Countrey of a Barba●…ian Language and the Tartars Nucieu All the Northern Chinefes or the Inhabitants of the seven Northern Provinces especially those of the Province of Peking are Inferior to those of the Southern Provinces in Learning Arts and other Exercises of Ingenuity but are Valianter and better Soldiers In like manner the Southern Chineses are very Politick and Civil and the Northern Rough and Unpolish'd As for the Inhabitants of the Province of Xensi they are very Civil and Courteous yet they are as dull in Learning as the other Northern Chineses Those of the Province of Fokien are much inclin'd to Riot and Lasciviousness yet are they Politick of great Understanding and subtile in the way of Merchandize very full of Fraud They are addicted to Literature and have many Learned Persons among them yet they are by the other Chineses accounted a People of a Salvage cruel Nature as seeming to have retain'd some of the antique Barbarism because they were the last that imbrac'd the present Laws and Customs of the Chineses The Inhabitants of the little City Vu●…iven in the Province of Quangsi are in high credit amongst the Chineses for their Policy and Understanding many of them being chosen for Governors and High-priests The City Xaohing in the Province of Chekiang sends forth the most Ingenious and best Orators in all China insomuch that there is scarce a Governor but hath one of this City for his Council The Inhabitants of the eleventh County Vencheufu in the Province of Chekiang have been of old much given to the abominable Sin of Sodomy which is grown so habitual among them that neither Law nor shame restrains them from acting it publickly Several Mountains lying in the twelfth County of Xincheufu in the Province of Huquang are inhabited by Wild and Salvage People call'd Vulinman Concerning the Original of these People the Chinese Writers give us this fabulous account King Kaosin Warring against a Robber nam'd U was driven by him to utmost extremity for the Robbers Valor and Experience in War was such that he often Defeated King Kaosin and Routed all his Forces wherefore Kaosin caus'd to be Proclaim'd amongst his Souldiers that he would give twenty thousand Ounces of Silver and a City with his youngest Daughter to any one that would bring him the General U's Head While this Edict was in force King Kaosin's Dog call'd Puonho ran into the Enemies Army which lay at that time Incamp'd in a Wood and killing the General U brought his Head to the King who exceedingly rejoyc'd at the Death of so great an Enemy yet thought himself not oblig'd to perform what the Proclamation had promis'd as concluding it very unseemly for a Beast to

Marry a Woman Which his Daughter hearing urg'd the Sacredness of the Edict and of the King's Word which ought not to be broke and thereupon she was Marry'd to the Dog by whom in six years time she had six Sons and six Daughters who by Marrying one another bred a Generation of Dog-like Natur'd People But it is to be suppos'd that this Fable was feign'd by the Chineses because they accounted none to be Humane which are not of their Countrey or observe their Laws Yet in the Journal of a Monk written in the second Book of Navigation and Travels Collected by M. Gio Baptista Ramusio we find this for the confirmation of these Dogs The Tartars returning through the Wildernesses came to a Countrey in which as the Ruthens which had been there relate they found a Generation of Wild Women who after they had been ask'd by several Interpreters what People they were that Inhabited that Countrey answer'd That all the Women of that place were of humane shape but the Men like Dogs And that upon this occasion whilst the Tartars stay'd in this Countrey the Dogs met together on one side of the River and leap'd being Winter into the Water and afterwards roul'd themselves in the Sand which by the excessive cold Froze upon them and Arm'd them with a kind of a Coat of Mail This having done several times together the Tartars falling upon them threw their Darts at them but the Dogs running amongst the midst of them made a great slaughter among them and drove the Tartars out of the Countrey and took Possession thereof Thus far Baptista The Inhabitants of the eighth County Taiping in the Province of Quangsi are by a Chinese Writer call'd Barbarians because having cast off the Chinese Laws and Government they go bare-footed like Salvage People and live without Law Rule Order or Decency killing one another upon every slight occasion Also on the Mountains in the ninth County Cuncheufu in the Province of Kiangsi there live many wild People which according to the Relation of the Chinese Writers live after a Salvage and Bestial manner Likewise on the Mountains in the Province of Queicheu inhabit a People for the most part Wild and untractable for they observe not the Chinese Laws or Customs but live of themselves under several Governors of their own Elections They often Sally out upon the Chineses which live near them sometimes forcing them to a Peace which at their pleasure they break again never suffering any that are not for their way of Living to come amongst them To reduce this Countrey to Reason the Emperors have often sent Forces thither but with little success that ever was heard of Those of Queiyangfu in the time of the Family Taiming first apply'd themselves to study the Learning and Customs of the Chineses by which means not a few of them have attain'd to the highest degree thereof The People of the second County Sucheufu of the Province of Queicheu are strong Limb'd and Valiant and withal Courteous and Civil yet have something of Wild in their manner of Living they go with their Hair loose bare-footed and the Soles of their Feet have contracted such a hard Callosity that they fear not to tread on the sharpest Stones and most prickly Thornes Those of the third County though somewhat of a Salvage Nature yet they have mix'd therewith a kind of Clownish Civility The Mountaineers of the sixth County Tungganfu in the Province of Queicheu were formerly the most Cruel and Barbarous People in all that Province Proud of themselves Fraudulent and having a Custom among them to kill their old People but have of late by their conversing with the other Chineses learnt something of Morality The City Hinghoa in the Province of Fokien is famous for the Industriousness of its Inhabitants in Learning Arts and ingenious Faculties The Inhabitants of the seventh County Yancheufu of the Province of Kiangnan are much inclin'd to Lasciviousness The Northern Mountaineers as in the County of the Garrison'd City Puting of the Province of Queicheu trouble not themselves with Learning Manners or Civility every one doing what they please living without Laws or Government The Inhabitants of the Mountain near the Garrison'd City Lungli have by their Conversing with the neighboring Chineses learn'd several of their Customs yet going always Arm'd delight in War and the noise of Arms. Those of the Province of Kiangsi are politick and subtle and many of them attain to the highest degree of Literature and thereby are rais'd to great Preferments The Inhabitants of the City Sucheu in the Province of Nanking are exceedingly inclin'd to dainty and delicious Fare and love the Art of Candying and Preserving in Sugar All the Inhabitants of the ninth County Ningpofu in the Province of Chekiang are great lovers of salt Meats whereupon this proverbial Sentence passes upon them That they cannot rot after Death being so much sa●…ted during Life The People of the Province of Iunnan by reason of their Neighborhood to India participate with them in their Customs and the main thing wherein they differ from the rest of the Chineses is this namely that whereas in all parts of China besides they Lock their Women up in their Houses and suffer them not to be spoken with or seen by any Man or ever to come out of their Houses into the Streets here the Women walk abroad upon their occasions as in Europe They exceed the rest of the Chineses in Courage and Valour being never daunted at the Engaging of an Enemy and training up their Elephants to War They are friendly Courteous and Civil to Strangers and more tractable to embrace the Christian Religion than any of the Chineses besides On the North-side of the fourth County Cuihungfu in the Province of Iunnan before the Tartars coming into China in the time of the Family Iuen dwelt a People call'd Kinchi that is Golden-Teeth because they us'd to cover their Teeth with thin Plates of Gold which is also a Custom amongst those of the eighth Garrison'd City in the same Province The Inhabitants of the twelfth County Xunningfu in the same Province are very barbarous and inhumane some of them take pleasure to make their Teeth black others Paint several Images on their Faces rubbing in their Skin first pierc'd with a Needle a kind of black Colour The Inhabitants of the first Garrison'd City Kiocing of the same Province are good Husband-men but very litigious often spending in Law that which they have labour'd for the whole year and all for a trifle yet they are not the onely People possess'd with this fond humor but may be paralell'd in this Nation especially in some parts of Wales The People of the second Garrison'd City Yaogan in the same Province are according to the Chinese Writers prodigiously strong and therefore delight more in War than Peace The Inhabitants of the third Garrison'd City Cioking in the same Province are valiant prudent and stout People they Fight generally with

according to his pleasure the fairest and most beautiful are in greatest esteem not regarding Birth or Riches for they buy them for a hundred Ducats a piece and sometimes less The common People or the Poor buy Wives for a small Sum and sell them again when they please but the Emperor and his Family in their Marriages look onely upon the Beauty of a Person without regarding whether she be of Royal Extraction or not But Women of Quality shun this Choice partly because the Emperor's Women are of no authority for their life-times being lock'd up in the Palace and secluded from the Eyes of all Friends and Relations and partly because the Magistrates of Marriages chuse but few out of many to be the Emperor 's lawful Wives This is not onely usual with the Emperor and his Family but likewise customary through the whole Empire The prime Wife sits with her Husband at the Table and all the rest especially those that are not related to the Imperial Blood are Servants to the Husbands Father and Waiting-Maids to the lawful Wife not daring to sit in the presence of either The Sons acknowledge not their real Mother but the prime Matron and Mourn onely when she dies three whole years and follow no Employment during that time which they mind not at the Death of their Mother which bare them They strictly observe that no Man Marry a Woman that hath the same Sir-name which he hath though they are no way ally'd to one another not in the least minding how near they are a Kin to each other if their Names do but differ nay the Fathers Marry their Sons to their Mothers nearest Relations The Bride brings no Portion with her and though at that day when she is carry'd to the Bride-grooms House she takes so much Housholdstuff with her that whole Streets are stopt up with it yet all this is bought at the Bridegrooms Charge who some Moneths before sends her a Sum of Money to that purpose Thus far Trigaut The Houshold generally consists in Stools Benches Chests and Umbrella's Moreover the Bride must bring the Bridegroom a Horse and Bridle four Servant Maids and two Boys The Bridegroom also furnishes the Kitchin with all Provision presents the Bride with several Pieces of Silk-Stuffs Cotton-Cloth and a Garland of Flowers with a Gold Bodkin for which she as a sign of her constant Love gives him a Sute of Cloth of Gold or rich Silk The Bridegroom also gives to her Father a hundred and to her Mother fifty Tail of Silver which done the Wedding begins first Entertaining each other eight days in the Bridegrooms House and three days more at the Brides Their Weddings are very expensive being celebrated in great State and ended with Comedies Masques Musick and the like to the great admiration of Strangers The day after the Wedding the new Marry'd Woman is conducted in a stately manner attended by a great number of her Friends and nearest Relations to her Husbands House either by Water in a Pleasure boat or by Land in a Sedan or Chair Upon the side of the Shore walk several Musicians and Singers Playing on Instruments and Singing Upon the Brides approach the Priests hold up at a distance some Golden Half-Moons which they give to the Bride wishing she may not change like the Moon but embrace him with a pure and constant Affection A great assurance they have of these Half-Moons believing that as long as the Woman keeps them she will never change her Love to her Husband When China was Govern'd by several Kings and Lords they took one anothers Daughters to Wife as in Europe but since those Governments were united the Emperor hath been forc'd in his own Realm to take one or other of his Subjects Daughters it being contrary to their Law that the Emperor should Marry any Woman out of his own Dominions But though the Emperor be so bound up yet Persons of Quality do not willingly Marry their Daughters to him because upon trial and dislike he may send them home again Neither may he Betroth himself to a Maid of his Alliance therefore they search through the whole Empire for a Virgin of twelve or fourteen years of age beautiful and endu'd with all manner of Vertues and Breeding after the same manner as sacred Writ testifies they sought for Abishag the Shunamite for David and Hester for Ahasuerus When they have found such a one according to their liking she is put into the custody of two Ladies of Honor antient Matrons who search her to see if she hath no imperfections about her Body When those after all their Searchings have found her faultless she is conducted to the Court with a great Train and being accepted as a Person which from that time belongs to the Emperor she is shewn to his Majesty in his Palace The Emperor after the usual Ceremonies pass'd gives her as Wife to the young Prince his Son from which instant she is the true and lawful Queen In the Palace also they order some chaste and vertuous Women to attend her who being endu'd with all manner of Vertues instruct her in all Courtly Behavior that she may justly deserve the Name of a Queen which they call Chemu that is Mother of the Empire If we would speak of them according to their Historians all the Empresses thus brought up have been Women of great Merits charitable to the Poor very Prudent and of quick Apprehension Such a one was the Daughter of a Bricklayer who being brought to the Dignity of Empress always kept her Father's Trowel by her and when the Prince her Son began to grow too ambitious she shew'd him this Trowel which her Father had us'd whereby she brought him to Obedience The Maidens Relations are immediately advanc'd to high Dignity and Places of Honor and her House and Family afterwards accounted Rich and of great Quality and the more she wins upon the Emperor's Affection the higher their Friends are rais'd The Marrying of the Empero's younger Sons is much after the same manner only they use not so much care in the choyce of their Wives but the manner of bestowing their Daughters is several for they send for twelve young Men of seventeen or eighteen years old the tallest and handsomest that can be found to come to the Palace and set them in a Place where the Princess may see them whom having view'd she takes peculiar notice of two which being shewn to the Emperor he elects one of them for his Son-in-law When the Emperor Vanlie Grandfather to the Emperor Theumchin who Reign'd about Anno 40. having two Youths brought before him on the foremention'd account saw one of them very richly Habited and the other though comelier in poor Apparel ask'd him why he was not so well Habited as his Companion whereto he answer'd O Emperor the poor Estate of my Father will not permit me to appear in a better Condition The Emperor reply'd Because you are poor I

Spectators for his bold attempt excusing his unworthiness of that Office then he writes over the first Mark on the upper end of the Board with black Ink another in this manner 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for then that which signifi'd Emperor is chang'd and is as much as Lord so that in this manner with the first under written Name of the Deceas'd a full Sentence is made viz. The Lord N. N. This Board the Deceased's Friends carry with his Image to his House that it may be yearly Worship'd and remember'd by his Predecessors So soon as this Inscription is finish'd the Writer goes by them all having Bow'd and Kneel'd four times But before the Friends depart they are either entertain'd in a House rais'd of Mats or in the next Chappel at a Noble Treat at which the first Cup is given to the Children as they say to wipe off their Tears At their return home some Tausus or Conjurers come to the Mourning House that by the sprinkling of certain Water they may drive away as they say evil Spirits and bring Peace and Quiet to the House The Chineses and Tartars use one Colour but not one Fashion for their Mourning All the Tartars both Friends and Relations wear a long Coat of Sack-Cloth reaching down to their Feet and gird it about their Middle with a Hempen Cord they put on their oldest Buskins and worst Hats without the red Silk-Fringe which at other times they wear for an Ornament The Hair of their Head or Beard is not shaven in all that time After the expiration of a Moneth every one throws in a fire of Paper and other such like Materials their Mourning Girdle with which they judge their Mourning to be ended and Habit themselves again in their usual Apparel Neighbors and acquaintance shew that they Mourn by pulling their Silk Fringe from their Hats The Tartar Women in the time of Mourning change their Apparel being usually Black into White their Coifs which else are cover'd with their Hair resemble a White Cap with Tassels that hang over their Shoulders The Chineses Mourning alters yearly their first year both Men and Women wear all over their Bodies a Sute of Sack-Cloth full of holes with Shooes of White Cloth and a Rope about their Wastes seeming thus by the carelesness of their Garb to express their sorrow for the Death of their Parents The second year their Habit is made of sleight Cloth their Hat of the usual Fashion but of another Colour their Shooes handsomer and their Girdles of Hemp left off The third year they may wear Silk Clothes and their Hats of the same Stuff but White or else of the usual Colour which is generally Black In this time they follow no imployment though of the greatest concern nor may sit opposite to or by the Visitants as others but on a low Bench. In the first Months they not only abstain as is usual in Fastings from Flesh Fish Milk Wine and the like but eat very unsavory things neither season'd with Salt nor Herbs And as the time of Mourning for a Wife Brother more distant Relations or Friends is much shorter so is also their Apparel and Meat better The Childrens Mourning for their Parents is three year which time the Wife must observe for the death of her Husband the eldest Son or his Wife is by his Parents Mourn'd for a year and as long a time the Man Mourns for his Wife and one Brother for another This long time of Mourning observ'd by the Children for the Death of their Parents hath as Martinius tell us been observ'd by the Chineses ever since the Emperor Xun's time who Mourn'd for his Predecessor Ya being his Father three whole years at his Grave without stirring thence and intrusting the care of his Realm during that time to his Vice-Roys and as the same Martinius adds from thence it is that they Mourn in that manner for their Parents always staying in their Houses laying down all Offices changing their Meat and Furniture to meaner and always sitting on a low Bench upon this account also they drink no Wine but live only on Pot-Herbs Their Clothes are very Fantastick made of Sack-Cloth their Lodging Rooms meaner nay they frame their manner of speaking to a much more sorrowful Tone and whereas before they us'd to write with Red on Paper streak'd with Vermilion now they use only Yellow or Blue Colours as a token of their Sorrow It is very strange to observe the Duty and Reverence which the Children shew to their Dead Parents wherein no other People may be compar'd to them for many though Magistrates when observing that their Parents being grown very old have need of their help they desire the Emperor to excuse them from their Office without urging any thing but that according to their Duty they may go to assist their aged Father which the Emperor seldom refuses As to what concerns their Mourning three years the Chinese Philosophers give this reason That it is most fit those which in their first three years have receiv'd their Parents Love should spend so much time after their Death in Mourning and bewailing their loss therefore it is no marvel that the Chineses count it the greatest misfortune in the world to have no Children because they know that no body will look after them in their Age nor at their Death Mourn for them The reasons why they make White to be Mourning and not Black is as themselves say because White is Natural when as all other things are Dy'd or Artificial by which as they say is signifi'd that in Sorrow neither Art nor Pride must be shewn for where a true Sorrow is Nature sufficiently expresses it Thus far Martinius With great preparation and Pomp the Emperor Zungte Father to this present Emperor was Interr'd The next day being the eighth of their first Moon after the Emperor's Death his Corps was put into the Coffin about Noon There was not one Tartar in all Peking that serv'd in publick Affairs but he went thither with his Wife and Daughters which so throng'd the Courts that none were able to get thorow The eldest were receiv'd into the first Court next the Emperor's Lodging where they all together bewail'd his Death with many loud Shreeks and Cries in which to admiration they obse●…e an exact time with stops and pauses as in Musick After all the Tartars divided into eight Companies let into the Emperor's Hall by two and two there bewail'd his Death they went away and made room for others so that the Cry continu'd without any cessation the Multitudes still going out and coming in Mean while there were not a few that fasted three days not daring to go out of the Gates nor their Servants suffer'd to bring them any Refreshment Father Iohn Adam Schall at that time present there taking compassion of the People which were ready to perish for Hunger and Thirst Petition'd the Governors either to furnish them with Provisions