. Pictorial history of China and India; comprising a description of those countries and their inhabitants. igh wall, and covered an im-mense extent of ground; for as none of the buildings exceeded one storyin height, they occupied the greater space: so that a Chinese city of sixmiles in circumference did not contain, perhaps, more houses than one nothalf the size in this country, where the style of architecture is different, andthe dwellings are high rather than of wide extent. The first sovereio^n ofthe new dynasty of Tsin removed the seat of government to Kai-fong-fou,another large city, sta
. Pictorial history of China and India; comprising a description of those countries and their inhabitants. igh wall, and covered an im-mense extent of ground; for as none of the buildings exceeded one storyin height, they occupied the greater space: so that a Chinese city of sixmiles in circumference did not contain, perhaps, more houses than one nothalf the size in this country, where the style of architecture is different, andthe dwellings are high rather than of wide extent. The first sovereio^n ofthe new dynasty of Tsin removed the seat of government to Kai-fong-fou,another large city, standing in the centre of the empire, in the province ofHonan, one of the most fertile and beautiful parts of all China, and this wasthe royal residence until the reign of Ouenti, the fifth emperor of the line ofTsin, who built a very magnificent palace at Nanking, where the court washeld with more splendor than had been exhibited by any former soveroiirns. It was during the period that followed the war of the three kino-domsthat the Chinese began to erect those elegant villas, in which their taste is so. Chineae Sommer Villa. 46 CHINA, HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE. eminently displayed ; and as one of the chief beauties of such buildings isthat they are invariably placed in some picturesque situation, either on thetop of an eminence, at the foot of a rock, or perhaps on a wooded island inthe midst of a lake, all these features of the landscape had in most cases tobe assisted by art; and thus arose the singular style of ornamental garden-ing in China. After the war of the three kingdoms had ended, there was an interval ofrepose which lasted several years, when a new invasion of the Huns againspread terror and desolation throughout the western provinces. They wereled by a barbarian prince, who laid claim to the empire on the ground ofbeing descended from one of those princesses of the race of Han, who hadmarried a chieftain of the Huns ; and the fierce invader, having made a cap-tive
Size: 2423px × 1031px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthorsearsrob, bookcentury1800, bookdecade1850, bookyear1851
