La vita dei bambini nelle case cinesi . f qualsiasi animale, e spesso quando le persone vengono a adorare questi templi fanno un voto che preserveranno la vita di alcune creature viventi. Così si vede spesso in templi buddisti, uccelli, anatre, oche, o maiali e pecore, e anche un laghetto riempito di pesce che sono stati salvati dai carri armati in cui sono esposti per la vendita da parte dei pescatori. In un tempio vidi un tempo un maiale antico di avery. I sacerdoti dicevano che aveva cento anni, e naturalmente non era vero. Ma deve essere stato molto venerato per l'aprig, ed è stato un oggetto così deplorevole che

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Child life in Chinese homes . f any animal, and frequently when people come to worshipsilt these temples they make a vow that they will preserve the lifeof some living creature. So one frequently sees in Buddhist temples, fowls, ducks, and geese, or pigs and sheep, and also a pond filled withfish which have been rescued from the tanks in which they areexposed for sale by the fishmongers. At one temple I once saw avery ancient pig. The priests said it was a hundred years old, whichwas of course untrue. But it must have been quite venerable for apig, and was such a deplorable-looking object that the next time I wasthere, I was not sorry to hear that the pig was dead. Some peoplemake a vow to release a large number of sparrows. These birdsare kept—a large number together—in cages hanging outside thepoulterers shops; people buy twenty or thirty of them for the pm-poseof setting them free. Just outside the east gate of the city of Wuchang there is a cele-brated temple known as the Temple of Hades, and the god who is. BUDDHIST PBIESTS. CHINESE IDOLATRY AND SUPERSTITIONS. 105 supposed to rule in the unseen regions is worshipped there. Thefirst figure that would attract your notice is one far ahove life-size, with a black beard, and flowing white robes, wearing a tall conicalhat, with an umbrella over his shoulder. In his hand he holds the endof a chain, which is fastened round the representation of the wastedform of a dying man, and he is supposed to be dragging him along tojudgment. When you ask a Chinaman what he thinks will happen tohim when he dies, a common answer is, Oh, Wutsang will comefor me, I suppose. The little burial-ground belonging to the Chinese Christians is justoutside the grim walls of this temple. Sometimes when we havegathered round the grave side, to hold a short service before com-mitting to the earth the remains of some departed Christian, crowdsfrom the heathen temple have come and joined us. How strange theglad words of triumphant faith sounded

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• bookcentury1800
• bookdecade1880
• booksubjectchildren
• bookyear188