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- Title:
- Chinese Traders
- Description:
- Ships numbering 30 to 40 sailed for 15 to 20 days from Canton, Chinchow and Ucheo generally during the new moon in March. Manila was their destination. They sailed back at the end of May or early June before the stormy season. In addition to silk, the primary product purchased for shipment eastwards via the Spanish galleon, the boats carried culinary provisions for the colony’s resident Spanish. Morga lists copper kettles, wheat flour, orange preserves, peaches and other Chinese fruits, viper roots, pears, nutmeg, ginger, ham, bacon, dried beef, live chickens, still unripe fruits, citrus fruits of all kinds, chestnuts, almonds. The traders wanted payment in silver. Some Chinese were allowed to stay in a special walled in quarter with a market.
- Subjects:
- Ships Chinese Trading
- Exhibition:
- Antonio Morga 30
- Source:
- Chinese traders living in their homeland. From THE BOXER CODEX, a 16th-century account reproduced by Vibal Foundation in 2016.
- Type:
- Image;Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Chinese Traders", Philippine Food History, Felice P. Sta. Maria
- Reference Link:
- felicepstamaria.net/items/coll074.html