Peeps into China . nd dispensary. The possession ofthe property is traced back to the time of the EmperorKang-tsi, under whose patronage it was first the high towers of the cathedral one could lookover the wall of the forbidden city into the hallsof the emperor, were it not that the Chinese haveraised the wall to twice its former height, andthus protected themselves from any baneful influences,as well as maintained the imperial As to the native sights, the palace, the Temple ofHeaven, and the Lama Temple—the most attractive0f all—are for the most part closed to foreigner
Peeps into China . nd dispensary. The possession ofthe property is traced back to the time of the EmperorKang-tsi, under whose patronage it was first the high towers of the cathedral one could lookover the wall of the forbidden city into the hallsof the emperor, were it not that the Chinese haveraised the wall to twice its former height, andthus protected themselves from any baneful influences,as well as maintained the imperial As to the native sights, the palace, the Temple ofHeaven, and the Lama Temple—the most attractive0f all—are for the most part closed to foreigners,unless money, force, or favour overcome the Temple of Heaven may, however, be seen fromthe south wall of the southern city—the magnificentaltar, with its white marble, rising forth distinctly amid 1 The cathedral has since been transferred to the emperor, and anexchange made to a suitable spot, still inside the imperial city. Thepremises now being erected will be the most extensive in 104 The Imperial City of Peking 105 the shade of the surrounding trees, and representingthe highest form of worship that China has to-day—that of the ruler of the nation to the higher Power ofheaven. The Lama Temple is composed of variousbuildings, the most important of which has an image ofthe coming Buddha some seventy feet high, while anotheris the chanting-hall, where a portion of the fifteenhundred Mongol or Tibetan priests chant their Buddhistprayers at regular intervals in the day and night. Theleading Confucian temple is also composed of differentbuildings, the largest being upwards of forty feet high,and used for the worship of the sages by the highestliterary men of the land, while without are tablets tell-ing of all the literary graduates of the third degree forfive hundred years, and other monuments recording thevictories of different emperors, or carved with charactersthat seem to indicate a history two thousand five hundredyears old. In the northern
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