The Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal, Vol. 18 (Classic Reprint)

Had China attained, in harmony with this ancient taste, a genuine ballad literature, we might not now be at such a loss in tracing the origin Of the many religious sects. The Folk-lore ballads would then have given us many a clue, or would have illustrated the expansion of the growing religious ideas.

We have, it is true, not as yet discovered what treasures may be in store in the many manuscripts which are hidden away by the timid sectaries. These, when found and examined, will add, no doubt, much to our knowledge. Many of these are interspersed with ditties and moral re?ections in rhyme, which have been crooned or chanted in private by the devoted followers of the sects.

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