. The Chamber of commerce handbook for San Francisco, historical and descriptive; a guide for visitors .. . the Kong Chow Friendly Society and the Temple ofQuan Dai, a larger Joss house than the Temple of the Queenof Heaven, and in some particulars more interesting. Thesetwo are the leading Joss houses in San Francisco, and owingto changing faiths and ideas, no more are likely to be built. At the entrance you pass around a screen formed by twoswing doors, with pictures of ancient warriors: men-at-armsof the god, and guardians of his temple. The screen is foundsimilarly placed in all orthodox b
. The Chamber of commerce handbook for San Francisco, historical and descriptive; a guide for visitors .. . the Kong Chow Friendly Society and the Temple ofQuan Dai, a larger Joss house than the Temple of the Queenof Heaven, and in some particulars more interesting. Thesetwo are the leading Joss houses in San Francisco, and owingto changing faiths and ideas, no more are likely to be built. At the entrance you pass around a screen formed by twoswing doors, with pictures of ancient warriors: men-at-armsof the god, and guardians of his temple. The screen is foundsimilarly placed in all orthodox buildings in China, even indwellings. It does not form much of an obstruction to men,who can walk as crookedly as necessary, but is baffling todevils, whose well-known habit it is to make a rush in a straightline whenever the door is opened, and who bump their headson the screen and retire in dismay. On the walls of the high-ceiled entrance hall are vermilionslips of paper, bearing the names of members of the congre-gation and the sums they have subscribed to the upkeep of 78 Handbook for San Francisco. IN THE TEMPLE OF QUAN DAI. the place; the largest subscriptions at the top. A door opensinto a handsome court with a fountain at the east side, justunder a huge red disk like the face of the sun painted on thewall. The stairs leading to the Joss house on the top floor startfrom the left-hand door; the main entrance, and the door atthe right, open into chapels devoted to a simpler sort of an-cestor worship. A considerable area of valuable real estatehas been devoted to courtyard space in order to orient thebuilding. A CHINESE Dai was a great warrior of some two thousand yearsago, raised to high station by his emperor and deified afterdeath for his nobility of character and many virtues. He isthe tutelary deity of the Kong Chow association, and here hiseffigy is enshrined in a jungle of gilded carvings, hung withgreen embroidered curtains and bedecked with peacock feathe
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