This publication tells about customs and customs in China in the late XIX - early XX centuries. In the preface, the publisher notes that the author "draws the north of China, which is not familiar to many of us, where the Chinese are colonizers and enslavers of alien tribes, and the provinces of southern and central China, which are almost unknown to us, but make up the brain and heart of this peculiar organism. The sorrows and joys of the daily life of the Chinese are the content of this book, written with rare warmth and participation to the people among whom the author lives, who devoted his life to him."