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Title: 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
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: DuBose, Hampden C
Subjects: Taoism Buddhism Confucianism
Publisher: New York, A. C. Armstrong & son
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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erstitious are the scholars, thatthey will not suffer one of these living birds to be drivenaway, lest it be ominous of evil, and they speak of themas the ten thousand happinesses come to court. Thepremises, the finest in the city, are overgrown withthistles and weeds, and are never put in order save at thevernal and autumnal sacrifices. The Sacrifice.—On the day preceding the sacrifice, inan adjoining temple, several thousand satin-robed scholarsgo in and bow before the sages tablet; the music on thelong guitars and instruments of steel is of the softestkind, and in front is the company of dancers, flag-bearers,and posture-makers with their bodies bending to the right 122 The Dragon, linage, and Demon, and left. As I stood for a couple of hours watching themone bj one making prostrations before the resting-placeof the philosophers soul, many near me said, Foreignteacher, you worship Jesus ; this is the way we worshipConfucius. The great sacrifice is in the fifth watch of the night.
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Sacrifice to Confucius. One ox, twenty-two sheep, and twenty-two pigs are slain,and placed, skinned and whole, on the altar, and areafterwards taken to the yam ens and eaten by themandarins ; a great tent is spread above the stone daisin front of the temple, when the Governor-Greneral, witha thousand attendant mandarins and scholars, arrives in The Confucian Sacrifices. 123 state, and, as the chief priest of the literati, who aredivided according to rank, to chant, to respond, to bear flags,to make postures, and to sing the doxology, he conductsthe worship according to the forms of the Book of Rites;and at the call of the master of ceremonies, with pompand parade they present a feast and pour out libations,the grounds being brilliantly lighted, and the lampsmaking radiant the richly-dressed congregation ofprovincial magnates. A grand chorus then joins insinging the soul-stirring doxology— Confucius, Confucius ! How great is Confucius IBefore Confucius there never was a Confucius ;Si

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