Liquorice

IMG:p323_5.png:Chinese characters han-ts'ao; Glycyrrhiza; a drug very highly prized by the Chinese, small quantities of it entering into nearly every prescription intended for internal use. G. echinata and G. glabra grow plentifully in northern China, but the best liquoi'ice is the root of IMG:p323_6.png:Chinese characters the product of the gra lands north-west of Sungpan in Ssuch'uan. It stands next in importance to ginseng in Chinese pharmacy. As an export it is sent mostly to Japan, but 8,000 piculs were bought for the United States in 1915. Exportation: 1915, Pels. 32,000, Tls. 335,000; 1916, Pels. 32,664, Tls. 315,142. LI IMG:p323_7.png:Chinese characters Falling into Trouble, a celebrated poem considered by all learned Chinese as one of the most difficult things in their literature. The poet was CH'ii YiiAN, (q.v.). It has been translated into German by August Pfizmaier (1852); into French by d'Hervey de IMG:p323_8.png:Chinese characters in 1870; and by Legge into English in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1895. See also Giles, Chinese Literature, p. 50.