. The dragon, image, and demon; or, The three religions of China: Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism, giving an account of the mythology, idolatry, and demonolatry of the Chinese. t of Gods. Tsusze Pusa—He is the minister to the Pearly Em-peror, who in turn has two assistants, the snake andthe turtle, which are seen by his side. His father wasking of Tsin Luh. He was a precocious youth; at tenyears of age in one glance he understood the classics,and at fifteen left home. With hair dishevelled hewent to the Snowy Mountains to become a hermit, butcould not endure the cold. On his return he met a
. The dragon, image, and demon; or, The three religions of China: Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism, giving an account of the mythology, idolatry, and demonolatry of the Chinese. t of Gods. Tsusze Pusa—He is the minister to the Pearly Em-peror, who in turn has two assistants, the snake andthe turtle, which are seen by his side. His father wasking of Tsin Luh. He was a precocious youth; at tenyears of age in one glance he understood the classics,and at fifteen left home. With hair dishevelled hewent to the Snowy Mountains to become a hermit, butcould not endure the cold. On his return he met anold woman grinding a crowbar. What are you doing,old lady ? Oh! I am grinding this crowbar into aneedle. But how can you accomplish so arduous anundertaking ? Oh ! you can do anything with Taoist Gods. 385 patience. He returned to the hills for forty-nineyears, when he became an immortal. One of his fourministers has a green face and a girdle of bones; is ableto control hobgoblins, and can gather the clouds andsend rain. The City gods.—As the government of Hades isthe exact counterpart of the government of the ChineseEmpire, all the mandarins of the world of night are. Tsusze Pusa. Chinamen; so the gentry are not only aspirants fortemporal power, but they also seek for divine honours,and the generous sovereigns of the land, who also presideover their departed subjects, generally try to gratify theirambition. Each of the sixteen hundred cities has its citygod; also the one hundred thousand great market townseach claim a local god, and not a few of the million villageshave their village gods, so these gods are a multitudewhich no man can number. The mandarins act as 25 386 The Dragon, Image, and Demon, governors, j adges, magistrates, tax-collectors, and coroners,all combined in one office, so the duties of the citygods are multifarious. These are often taken to thetemple of the Pearly Emperor, and an entrance feefrom S20 to $100 is paid to the priests for an audienceof the
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