THE WEATHER
DESCRIBED BY CHINESE WOMEN. Women in certain parts of China rarely speak of a cold day. And no matter how high the temperature rises they rarely speak of a hot one. Their description of weather matters generally is confined to its clothes description. It is actually classified according to the number of silk coats the day demands. A one-coat day is simply a very hot one. If the weather is somewhat chilly, however, it is referred to as a threecoat day. Cold weather is a seven or even nine-coat day. What happens when snow and ice arrive is left to the individual woman’s selection in the matter of the number of coats, because doubtless whoever first thought of this unique method of describing the vagaries of the weather felt that even the wealthiest would be hard put to done more than nine coats, flimsy as they are.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 July 1940, Page 8
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149THE WEATHER Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 July 1940, Page 8
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