Massacres of Christians by heathen Chinese, and horrors of the Boxers; containing a complete history of the Boxers; the Tai-Ping insurrection and massacres of the foreign ministers; manners, customs and peculiarities of the Chinese .. . COLLECTING THE ANNUAL TRIBUTE FROM THE MONGOLIAN TRIBESIN MANCHURIA: THE CHIEF SOURCE OF LI-HUNG CHANGS REVENUE. POPULAR BELIEF IN DREAMS. 117 THE FIVE HOLY MOUNTAINS. In Shantung is Ta-shan, or Great Mountain. It is the mostsacred of the five holy mountains of the Empire and entitled the beneficent king, the equal of heaven, the controller of birthsand deaths,
Massacres of Christians by heathen Chinese, and horrors of the Boxers; containing a complete history of the Boxers; the Tai-Ping insurrection and massacres of the foreign ministers; manners, customs and peculiarities of the Chinese .. . COLLECTING THE ANNUAL TRIBUTE FROM THE MONGOLIAN TRIBESIN MANCHURIA: THE CHIEF SOURCE OF LI-HUNG CHANGS REVENUE. POPULAR BELIEF IN DREAMS. 117 THE FIVE HOLY MOUNTAINS. In Shantung is Ta-shan, or Great Mountain. It is the mostsacred of the five holy mountains of the Empire and entitled the beneficent king, the equal of heaven, the controller of birthsand deaths, the arbiter of human destinies. Confucius at-tempted to reach the summit of this peak, a distance of 5,100 feet,but failed. A temple marks the spot where he stopped. Beyond,passing through the provinces, a tribe is met with that removes thedead from the coffin every two or three years and carefully washesthe body. The tribe holds that the public health depends on theclean condition of the bones. Still other tribes are found where deceased friends are notmourned for at the time of death but with the return of springwhen all nature is renewed. If the dead do not return, then it isevident that they have forgotten their people forever. The strangecustom of the couvadev yet prevails with some of the a child is born and as soon as
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