The East of Asia Magazine Volume 4 (Paperback)

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ...day. By evening they had reduced the water two feet, but in the morning the water had risen to its normal level, so the project was dropped. It is also said among'the people that a certain local official named Lu Pao-te (ji? $ $ ) dared to touch this sacred spot; as a result the heavens dropped black rain and blew black wind, while the dragon roared fiercely in his den beneath. Later, he sent a diver down into the pool who stayed three days and three nights and found a fine pavilion, inhabited by a beautiful lady with bracelets of precious stones on her hands, and as she was fast asleep the diver drew near and slipped the bracelets from her hands and brought them to see the light of day. Lu said to the diver, "You have hit upon the goddess of the river, but make haste and return these bracelets to her or we are all dead men." The diver went down again and put the bracelets on her hands, and he had just finished when she awoke. If she had awakened and found her bracelets gone she would have come out and flooded the country side. It is also said, that Kwanhsien is hollow underneath and that the city is floating on the dragon's water from the gorge. The people of 1'ehsha ( 3 Jij/) village, where the rafts make their start, have the custom of bringing their dragon lantern to Kwanhsien during the first fifteen days of the New Year. This lantern is paraded all over the city and river side, and superstitious general opinion holds that, if this lantern does not go its accustomed rounds, many lives will have to be sacrificed to the river to make up for the loss to the dragon. So strong is public opinion on this question, that even the local official cannot stop the Pehsha dragon lantern procession though he may forbid all others. The...

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ...day. By evening they had reduced the water two feet, but in the morning the water had risen to its normal level, so the project was dropped. It is also said among'the people that a certain local official named Lu Pao-te (ji? $ $ ) dared to touch this sacred spot; as a result the heavens dropped black rain and blew black wind, while the dragon roared fiercely in his den beneath. Later, he sent a diver down into the pool who stayed three days and three nights and found a fine pavilion, inhabited by a beautiful lady with bracelets of precious stones on her hands, and as she was fast asleep the diver drew near and slipped the bracelets from her hands and brought them to see the light of day. Lu said to the diver, "You have hit upon the goddess of the river, but make haste and return these bracelets to her or we are all dead men." The diver went down again and put the bracelets on her hands, and he had just finished when she awoke. If she had awakened and found her bracelets gone she would have come out and flooded the country side. It is also said, that Kwanhsien is hollow underneath and that the city is floating on the dragon's water from the gorge. The people of 1'ehsha ( 3 Jij/) village, where the rafts make their start, have the custom of bringing their dragon lantern to Kwanhsien during the first fifteen days of the New Year. This lantern is paraded all over the city and river side, and superstitious general opinion holds that, if this lantern does not go its accustomed rounds, many lives will have to be sacrificed to the river to make up for the loss to the dragon. So strong is public opinion on this question, that even the local official cannot stop the Pehsha dragon lantern procession though he may forbid all others. The...

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July 2012

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July 2012

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246 x 189 x 6mm (L x W x T)

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Paperback - Trade

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112

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978-1-150-29362-7

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9781150293627

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1-150-29362-4



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