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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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ediately the watersassuage. The governor of the river receives the divinesnake in a lacquer waiter, carries him in his sedan to thetemple, and the mandarins all worship the heaven-sentmessenger. This golden-dragon king, who comes as aserpent, is very fond of theatricals, so the best actorsare invited, a programme is placed before him, and henods towards the play he wishes performed. After some 134 ^^^ Dragon, I^Jtage, and Demon, days the coiling god takes his departure, and the governorof the Yellow Eiver memorialises the throne to assignhim rank and erect a tablet. These memorials appearin the Feking Gazette; one was sent up by an official,now one of the most distinguished of this province, andanother it is said, a few years ago, was sent to theEmperor by the Bismarck of China. Mandarins whodo not countenance idolatry, when they are appointedto the control of the Yellow Kiver, are thoroughlysatisfied with the divinity of this snake. The Five Dragons—The dragon of the east is called
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Golilen-dragon King. Jao-Kwang ; of the south, Jao-Chwen ; of the west, Jao-Ming; of the north, Jao-Kyih ; and of the middle, Jao-Ping. The governor worships twice a year and theprefect twice a month. In times of drought these dragonsare worshipped, and in front of the temples there is a pondfrom which they draw rain. In the inner temple there isan image of Mrs. Dragon. Temple of Worthies.—In this city there is a temple—it is only a specimen of what is found elsewhere—which contains several hundred tablets of mandarinswho have been the benefactors of their race, and of the Confucian Gods. 135 widows of mandarins, to whom regular sacrifices areoffered bj the highest officials. God of the Classics.—He was named Chen Kongchen,and flourished in the Han dynasty, and was able satis-factorily to expound the most intricate passages in theClassics. He adopted the civil measure of punishing themisdemeanours of his handmaids, by requiring them tomemorise the words of Confucius, so his Ah

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