Page:The Chinese Empire. A General & Missionary Survey.djvu/208

This page needs to be proofread.
Plate
THE CHINESE EMPIRE
Plate

Photo by Memorial Tablet to Fu Hsl One of the Memorial Tablets erected to Fu Hsi, the mythical ancestor of man, the reputed author of music, writing, marriage, etc. At the Temple at Chenchow, Honau— the T'ai Hao-lins (see illustration on page 159)— a great festival in his honour is held every spring when thousands of people come from long distances to worship at his shrine. It is called the " T'ai Hao-ling festival." At this season over 70,000 women enter the guest-hall i-ling i of the China Inland Mission premises, and an equal number of men. To face jmge 149.