SUN YAT SEN AND THE CHINESE REPUBLIC
those nerve-centers that were to stand him in such good stead in the hard and adventurous life to come.
The Cantonese are a courageous, self-reliant, and hardy race. They have always been very patriotic and intensely Chinese, in spite of their comparative isolation from the great centers of Middle and Northern China. They have produced scholars of great distinction and, as a race, have constituted as great a protection to the Middle Kingdom on the south as the Great Wall itself on the north. They use a language highly developed in its phonetics, the Cantonese possessing one more tone than the Mandarin, thus making five tones. In the arts and crafts they have been known as masters from the earlier periods and are, altogether, a people second to none in general Chinese intelligence and racial tenacity.
Among the Chinese, their women are noted for their beauty and virtue, and since they are of a handsome brunette type, their complexion takes on a tone of olive rather than the lighter ivory shade observed among the Chinese women of the North.
The life of the Cantonese masses is easier than that of many other Chinese, for they are an open-air people and enjoy the ease that goes with open-air life. They need no heating fuel nor heavy
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