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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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Load of Paper Silk. There are also paper shoes of sycee, their ancient currency,still used in the north. These, when of solid silver,contain fifty ounces. Paper chopped in little squares isalso sold for money. The rolls of coloured paper in thewaiter represent silk. The trade in tin-foil or pewterbeaten thin is a most extensive one, and gives employ-ment to ten thousands of women. After one of thegreat feasts men go along the streets and gather up the The Worship of Buddhism. 243 pewter ashes, purchased at a nominal price; these arereshipped to be manufactured over again, and a secondtime used in worship. In the temple court stands a great censer, which uponworship days smokes with the fragrant incense cast inby those who come to adore the god. In front of sometemples ig a stone leaver for washing hands.
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Crinoline Incense. Often hanging in front of the shrine is incense, in theshape of a crinoline, and this burns for many days. Oracular Response.—The worshipper kneels beforethe idol and shakes a bamboo cup in which are manylittle sticks, till one jumps out; he takes it to thepriest, who notes the number, turns to a musty roll,and gives him a prescription for medicine or an answer 244 The Dragon, Image, and Demon, of the oracle telling whether or no his business willprosper. Absence of Devotion.—The worship of the heathenlacks all the elements of true devotion, and when inpreaching the missionary uses the word worship, heimmediately explains that it does not consist in shakingthe clasped hands or in bodily prostrations. The firstelement of worship is love^ but how can we love wood,

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