. A'Chu and other stories. pay any price that may be asked for a gravein lucky ground. The .visitor to Canton will be shown by his guidethrough the City of the Dead, which lies in the sub-urbs. Here are rows of what look like small are open; and as his guide leads the way, heenters to find not a living soul within. The first roomcontains an altar with the customary spirit-tablets. Be-sides, there may be a seat or two where those whocome to pay devotion may sit and rest. The visitor is invited to enter the second room. Thishe finds occupied by one or more, or even several large, The
. A'Chu and other stories. pay any price that may be asked for a gravein lucky ground. The .visitor to Canton will be shown by his guidethrough the City of the Dead, which lies in the sub-urbs. Here are rows of what look like small are open; and as his guide leads the way, heenters to find not a living soul within. The first roomcontains an altar with the customary spirit-tablets. Be-sides, there may be a seat or two where those whocome to pay devotion may sit and rest. The visitor is invited to enter the second room. Thishe finds occupied by one or more, or even several large, The Fung-Shui 289 heavy burial caskets tightly sealed. Here lie the onlyinhabitants of the City of the Dead. For these thecity was built. For these it is guarded night and day,its streets are kept in perfect order, and its flowers areeverblooming. Within its gates the air is heavy withthe odor of perpetually burning incense. What does all this mean? Will those thousands ofdead wait in this quiet place till the great judgment. TOMBS FOR TEMPORARY INTERMENT WHILE WATTING FOR LUCKY GROUND day? No, the guide explains with utmost candor, they wait here in the City of the Dead only tillfriends shall secure a spot of lucky ground for theirfinal burial. In the neighborhood of villages and out in thecountry, coffins may be seen resting under temporarycover on the hillside, or without cover and perhapsnear the family home. These also await a luckyday and a lucky spot to be laid to rest in a placewhere the fung-shui is 290 AChu and Other Stories HIGH VALUE OF LUCKY GROUND An incident that occurred in the experience of ourown missionaries at Swatow may serve to illustrate theimportance the Chinese attach to the power of fung-shui. When our mission work had become establishedin that region, it was decided to build two houses forthe missionaries, a girls school, a school for boys, anda dispensary or small hospital. Upon careful search a very desirable location wasfound on a small is
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