. Pictorial history of China and India; comprising a description of those countries and their inhabitants. The Annual Spring Festival. emn sacrifices. The ploughing by the imperial husbandman takes placeonly in the capital, but in every large city a ceremony is performed calledmeeting the spring; when the governor assumes the character of high-priest, and goes out in state, carried in a finely ornamented sedan chair, pre-ceded by banners, lighted torches, and music. He is followed by severalmandarins m their sedans, and by a number of litters, in which are placedchildren, who are fancifully dr
. Pictorial history of China and India; comprising a description of those countries and their inhabitants. The Annual Spring Festival. emn sacrifices. The ploughing by the imperial husbandman takes placeonly in the capital, but in every large city a ceremony is performed calledmeeting the spring; when the governor assumes the character of high-priest, and goes out in state, carried in a finely ornamented sedan chair, pre-ceded by banners, lighted torches, and music. He is followed by severalmandarins m their sedans, and by a number of litters, in which are placedchildren, who are fancifully dressed and crowned with flowers, representingvarious deities (connected with the labors of the field. But the most promi-nent figure among tlie (Iramdiia pcrso»(E is a huge earthen buffalo, the repre-sentative of the spring, which is borne in procession to meet the high-priest,who delivers a lecture on the benefits of husbandry, which is one of sixteendiscourses annually read to the people. At the conclusion he strikes thebuffalo three times with a staff, when it is immediately broken in pieces bythe
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