. The land of the pigtail : its people and customs : from a boy's point of view . seau; but, on inquiringfurther, it is explained that it was the articlessent as presents from all parts of China; and asthese articles are all taken to the quarters in thepalace where the Empress will for the future reside,the Scotch word plenishing, which a lady here hasapplied to them, describes most nearly their realcharacter. Every morning, shortly after daybreak,there has been an extended line of these presentscarried along in charge of mandarins, bannermen,police, imperial porters—I dont know the Chinesewor
. The land of the pigtail : its people and customs : from a boy's point of view . seau; but, on inquiringfurther, it is explained that it was the articlessent as presents from all parts of China; and asthese articles are all taken to the quarters in thepalace where the Empress will for the future reside,the Scotch word plenishing, which a lady here hasapplied to them, describes most nearly their realcharacter. Every morning, shortly after daybreak,there has been an extended line of these presentscarried along in charge of mandarins, bannermen,police, imperial porters—I dont know the Chineseword for them — in red dresses with white marriage gifts present a great variety of were large cabinets, others small dishes, chairs,goblets, vases, washhand-basin stands, gold and silverarticles of all kinds. The smaller things were carriedon yellow tables, where the articles had to be were bound by strips of yellow and red silk,forming a combination of the imperial and nuptial see these articles of imperial house-furnishing the. AN emperors wedding. 57 people of Peking came out in crowds every morning,and lined both sides of the route all the way. Onemorning the articles to be carried were more preciousthan the others, so the procession started before day-break, and the sightseers who came were rather disap-pointed. It was explained that this was to prevent anyaccident from the roughs of Peking making a dash andtrying their hand at a game of grab. There wasanother attraction for the public; that was the drillingof the men to carry the chair of the Empress,—this wasthe bridal chair—a most important part of a Chinesewedding. The imperial porters were drilled so as to beable to carry it steadily, and to relieve each otherquickly, and it was rumoured that, as a test of the men,a vase filled with water was placed in the chair, to seeif they could carry it without spilling. Crowds cameto see the chair when it was announced to come
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