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Children eating their meal

Children eating their meal.jpg Trackers RegalingThumbnailsA family enjoying a meal, about 1650Trackers RegalingThumbnailsA family enjoying a meal, about 1650Trackers RegalingThumbnailsA family enjoying a meal, about 1650Trackers RegalingThumbnailsA family enjoying a meal, about 1650Trackers RegalingThumbnailsA family enjoying a meal, about 1650

Among the peasantry and labouring people of China, all are cooks. A little earthen-ware stove and an iron pan is all that is required. Rice is their principal food, which is simply boiled, and then a little fat of pork or a salt fish put into the pan to mix with it and give it a relish; they drink little else besides water, which is usually carried about in a gourd slung on the back; and they require no table nor chairs. Each person has his bowl and his chop-sticks, and squatting down on his haunches before the pan, he makes a hearty and contented meal. It is quite gratifying to see a party of youngsters making their dinner in this way in the open air.