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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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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 god before the king of gods. Assistants to the City gods—The work of the
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Eastern Peak, Yamens is mostly performed by the secretaries, so besidethe gods are the images of a retinue of secretaries andattendants. There are two principal ones who attend tothe lawsuits in Hades, and who decide what grade ofpunishment should be inflicted, and to which prison ofthe lost the guilty should be assigned. They are wor-shipped by all. The Mediator.—In the first and sixth moons there Taoist Gods. 387 are many devotees. If a man wishes to worship the PearlyEmperor he first adores the Chan-Tseusze, and requeststhat deity to obtain for him an audience. On the fifthof the fifth moon, fifteenth of the eighth moon, andthirtieth of the twelfth moon, all the gods must be presentat the Pearly Emperors levee. These gods must firstpresent themselves at the Mediators temple, so that hemay obtain tickets for their spirits at the high audience. The Eastern Peak.—The Eastern Peak is MountTai, and this is the god of that mountain ; his reputationhaving rapidly increased during the

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