Identifier: adventuresporttr00fergrich (find matches)
Title: Adventure, sport and travel on the Tibetan steppes
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Fergusson, W. N Brooke, John Weston, l880-l908
Subjects: Tibet (China) -- Description and travel China -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : Scribner
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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e or manageable), while in the interiorthey are called Sung Miao (raw or unmanageable). Thepeople near the Chinese border work hard hke the cow or ox,yet they are very poor. The men put their hair up in a horn,and the women wear clam shells, and a hair pin about teninches long in their hair, and in their ears long earrings. Theywear a seamless cloak, having a hole for the head to passthrough. The first day of the tenth moon is their feast day. Onthe first day of the new year they worship Panhu and offerfish to him in a trough or altar, and crying out in a loud wailingvoice. When visiting an official, whether of high or low degree,he is addressed as the old Emperor. The Chinese are always referred to as the Han, becauseit was in the Han dynasty, between 201 B.C. and 23 a.d., thatthey were conquered and made subjects. The Song Miao and the Tsai Miao are the descendants ofthe kings of Song and Tsai, who ruled in Honan and Hunanfrom 1122 to 770 B.C., when their two kingdoms were con- -,i6
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A LOLO MUSICIAN. Religion and Customs of the Lolos. quered by Chi and Tsii a remnant of the people escapedwestward and became the Sung and the Tsai Miao. These people are very honest and cultivate the land. TheSung tribe are the more intelligent. They still wear their hair in a horn on top of their headsas of old, but have clianged the fashion of their garmentsand have adopted that of the other Miao tribes. When the Tsai dynasty conquered the Chow, many of theprinces of Chow were sent west as outlaws and prisoners,and these became the Tien tribe, who still retain many ofthe Chow customs, such as the worship of their ancestors,which is performed by a procession, led by the heads ofthe families or chiefs and all join in a song of praise to thedeparted. The Ya Miao live in Peislia (north gorge), they despise theold and honour the young. When a man or woman is oldthey drive them out for sale, and even a son wiU sell his ownfather or mother. This tribe lives in caves, which they have hewn

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