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0303 The Pulse of Asia : vol.1
アジアの鼓動 : vol.1
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doi: 10.20676/00000233
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bad the season, the increasing flood will at least support the
fields upon which he mainly depends. With the surplus
water of midsummer he can raise all the fruit and vegetables
that he wants, and can have a grove of poplars for timber,
some walnut trees for nuts, mulberries for silk-worms, and
fields of alfalfa for hay, of cotton for clothes, and of corn to
supplement the wheat. Meanwhile, without care on his part,
the surrounding zone of vegetation is producing various
plants which in winter provide him with abundant firewood
for himself and with grazing for the animals which, perhaps,
have spent the summer in the rich pastures among the moun-
tains. However poor he may be, he can always raise a little
more than the bare necessities of life; he can vary his diet
with abundant milk and some meat; and he can have plenty
of fuel and warm clothes of quilted cotton or sheep-skin.

The Chanto peasant, unless he is also a shepherd, has no
reason to travel beyond the neighboring bazaar. His friends
are near at hand. In summer, when the desert on every side
is hot and deadly, his garden and the shady village streets
are cool and pleasant. In winter, when it is cold and dreary
outside, his house is well heated and comfortable. There is
nothing to tempt him out of his small oasis; nothing to
waken him or to arouse determined effort. His work in
summer may be hard for a time, but it rarely hurries him, or
causes him anxiety. He knows that the water will be turned
into his ditch on such a day: his crops must be cut at such a
time, and all the family must work, but bad weather never
seriously interrupts the harvest, and a delay of a day or two
will do no harm. And so year after year, and generation
after generation, the Chanto goes his care-free, monotonous