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Title: China, in a series of views : displaying the scenery, architecture, and social habits of that ancient empire
Year: 1843 (1840s)
Authors: Allom, Thomas, 1804-1872 Wright, G. N. (George Newenham), 1790?-1877, editor Fisher, Son, & Co., publisher
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Publisher: London, Newgate Street Paris, rue St. Honoré : Fisher, Son, & Co.
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
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y. The fate of Quang-tchu, in his search for the tripod, made a lasting impression uponthose whom he governed with so much wisdom and justice, and it was resolved, in con-sequence, to erect a temple to his manes, on the rock beside the spot where he issupposed to have perished, and to institute an annual festival in commemoration of hisvirtuous example. Feats, and sports, and mock-combats are held upon the water, thepretended object being the recovery of the tripod, for the purpose of placing it in thehall of Quang-tchu; and they are conducted with a bolder spirit than others ofthe kind, from the very general partiality prevailing here for boat-racing, and otheraquatic sports. Long boats terminating in a dragons head, and called long-tchuen,are built for the occasion; and in these, which are gilded and gaily adorned withribands, the tripod, or other prize, is contended for with an emulation often end-ing fatally to the candidate for honour: one calamitous accident, by which some fifty
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\ r^ ■^ ^ ^ 1^ LOADING TEA-JUNKS AT TSEEN-TANG. 11 lives were forfeited, had nearly caused the extinction of the festival, a council of man-darins having issued an order to that effect; but ancient usages are not abandoned inChina, without the exertion of ancient obstinacy, and the mandarins have been obliged torescind their humane mandate, and leave the zealous respecter of Quang-tchus memoryto search on for the tripod from year tQ year. The festival therefore has been revived,and the very mandarins who first prohibited its observation, may now be seen passingthe foot of the waterfall in their chairs of state, preceded by their numerous retinues, toparticipate in a scene which, however idle, is both manly and mirthful. LOADING TEA-JUNKS A T T S E £ N-T A N G.* ■ The sweat of industry would dry and die.But for the end it works to. Cymbeline On a tributary to the river of the. Nine Bends, and in the province of Fokien, is aromantic, rich, and remarkable spot, the resort of tea-fac

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