In the green tea districts of Chekiang, near Ningpo, the first crop of leaves is generally gathered about the middle of April.
Ning Lai-chn was a Chekiang man, and a good-natured, honourable fellow, fond of telling people that he had only loved once.
Meanwhile the governors of Szechwan in the west and Chekiang in the south-east made themselves independent.
In 860 began the first great popular rising, a revolt caused by famine in the province of Chekiang.
Ningpo is also an old treaty port, situated on a small river, the Yungkiang, in the eastern part of Chekiang province.
