Hoa-tchao. — The "Birthday of a Hundred Flowers" falls upon the fifteenth of the second spring-moon.
Jade. — Jade, or nephrite, a variety of jasper, — called by the Chinese yuh, — has always been highly valued by them as artistic material.... In the "Book of Rewards and Punishments," there is a curious legend to the effect that Confucius, after the completion of his Hiao-King ("Book of Filial Piety"), having addressed himself to Heaven, a crimson rainbow fell from the sky, and changed itself at his feet into a piece of yellow jade. See Stanislas Julien's translation, p. 495.
Kabit. — A poetical form much in favor with composers of Hindoo religious chants: the kabit always consists of four verses.
Kao-ling. — Literally, "the High Ridge," and originally the name of a hilly range which furnished the best quality of clay to the porcelain-makers. Subsequently the term applied by long custom to designate the material itself became corrupted into the word now familiar in all countries, — kaolin. In the language of the Chinese potters, the kaolin, or clay, was poetically termed the "bones," and the tun, or quartz, the "flesh" of the porcelain; while the prepared bricks of the
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