THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 1T, 1921.
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ritory of Waibaiwei, is a distinguished [BY J. D.^R. HAND IN “ THE OSSIIVAR."} scholar, & recognised authority on the To the north of the Tartar City in poetry and religions of China, and the author of several well-known books on Feking, not far from the old Drum Tower, Buddhism. It was my privilege to visit there lies a little quartier of quiet streets him last winter at his Chinese house in where, despite all the alarms and up- one of those quiet strets near the Drum heavals of the past twenty years, Tower, and to hear from him many in-
teresting details about the young Em time seems to have stood still. The
peror and his studies. Space does not placid stream of life that. dows permit of relating here bow Mr. Johnston came to be appointed Imperial tutor; minds one very vividly of the Peking suffice it to say that the arrangement was duly sanctioned by the President of the of bygone days, the city of dread Republic, and by the British Government SHANGHAI ful dust and splendid dreams, whose in 1918. mysterious charms lingers with such imag Ferishable fragrance in the treasure-house The education of the young Emperor,
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lew timid-faced women bargaining with and precedents laid down by dynastic HAIPHONG the vegetable sellers at their doors; little tradition. Besides Mr. Johnston, he has groups of gatemen and servants gathered three tators; his studies begin every day BORNEO sbout the entrance of a tajen's residence; at 6 a with the Chinese classics, ex- and here and there an old-fashioned pounded by the famous poet scholar, Chen springless male cart, with its driver Fro-chen. Next, it is the duty of the old TIENT IN LINE-A regular service is run from March to November between slumbering contentedly on the shaft. Manchu die-hard," the ex-Boxer Hsih Strangely quiet, these old streets; there Hau, to instruct him in the language and are no shops to break the grey line of literature of his forefathers. Haih Hsu high windowless walls, that enclose in-was at imt strongly opposed to the in risible courtyards and gardens, and the trusion of a barbarian into the sacred deep-caved doping roofs of houses, all precincts, and is continually distressed by built to one design. Only, from time to the young emperor's progressive ideas, time the long-drawn cry of some hawker bat chastened by disaster, he has come to on his rounds, the tinkling cabals of accept the situation with courteous re the beancurd seller, or the reedy fate of signation as one more buffet of outrageous an itinerant chiropodist, breaks on the fortune. After Hsih Hsu comes the third unfrequented silence, and lures the child Tator, Chu-I-fan, for famed among the ren from their noiseless games. Time iterati is a master of the science and was when these streets were the abode art of caligraphy; scholar experts say of wealth and fashion, when many of the that the emperor has acquired under him. men who own these houses were snug with infinite diligence, a style of pen- and prosperous dignitaries, battening on manship distinguished for its classic ele- the bounty that flowed from the Dragon ganca Towards all his tutors, His Throne, for this was, and still is, essen-Majesty observes the respectful de tially a Mancha quarter, as you may know meanour prescribed by the Confucian by the curious headgear of the women at code, standing up whenever they enter their doors. But to-day the glory of the or leave his presence, and addressing Great Inheritance has faded, and with it. them with panctilious deference. in many cases, bas gone the livelihood of their birthdays, sad at certain. festivals men' who, bred to a birthright of sheltered he sends them congratulatory gifts ease, are quite incapable of earning one. (generally scrolls of his own writing) with all the pomp and ceremony prescrib Faded, but not utterly, departed, the ed by Imperial usage. The arrival of a glory that once was the Manchu dynasty gift from the Lord of Ten Thousand Years. For, as all the world knows, the Lord as the citizens still call him) creates quite a sensation in the neighbourhood of Mr. of Ten Thousand Years," though shorn Johnston's house. Within the Palace en- of much pomp of majesty and power, still closure, all the tators have the right. sits, upon the Dragon Throne and, as all the world knows also, only the hour Prescribed by ancient usage, to ride in palanquins; and this, for the anke of and the Man are needed to restore the necessary Lace," Mr. Johnston does. the allegiance of the Son of Heaven most of the men who now prudently profess and call themselves Republicans They know, the dwellers in these quiet streets, that in every house throughout the city
Dragon fag lies folded away: were Mr. Johnstou describes His Majesty as one brief week, only three years, agullad of unusual intelligence and plea They know that the President of the Re Bant disposition, keenly interested in his public was a Grand Secretary by the studies and especially in geography and grace of Her Majesty the Old foreign affairs. He followed the negotia Buddha, and that, since her passing, hetions of the Treaty of Versailles from day has ever been a very faithful Guardian to day with critical attention, studying of the Heir Apparent; they now that the telegrams in the Chinese Preas with every high official in Peking was a party the aid of the best mans procurable. His to the restoration scheme of 1917, and English lessons have filled him with an may be 30 again at any moment. Is it intense desire to travel abroad, and the not freely rumoured that the Son of ides being seriously considered", by Heaven is to be married to President those whose business it is to decide what Hsu's daughter, the Imperial Clan con- things are lawful and expedient for His senting, and that, by this harmonious Majesty President. Heu lavours the pro- fusion," the way will be prepared for, the Posal that he should make a tour of re-establishment of the Throne, as Europe and Amerits next year, incognito, and a small suite of attendants. - This, and the question of the Emperor's ́mar- riage, are the chief subjects of discussion in the palace. According to dynastic precedent, the time is close at hand when his betrothal must be decided, so that if his wish to travel is to be fulfilled it cannot be much longer delayed.
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To the European mind, such a solution of China's political problems may seen fantastic; nevertheless, seriously con sidered, it is no more fantastic than the fact that the Emperor still remains part of the recognised order of things, in the vicinity of, and in close touch with, the
His Majesty is very fond of exercise, Presidential Mansion; and that, within tha narrow limits of the Forbidden City, the but the restricted area of the Palace daily life of his court, with all its wonted enclosure affords but little opportunity privileges, dignities and ceremonies, pur. for gratifying his healthy inclinations. sues the even tenor of immemorial usage. Mr. Johnston expressed the hope that his It is true that His Majesty may no longer guardians and advisers might be per- leave the precincts to make stately pro suaded to allow him to take up his resid- gress through the capital, and performence at the Summer Palace, where he the solemn sacrifices at the Temple of would be less exposed to the dangerous Heaven. No longer may be invoke, on influence of the eunuchs, and where he behalf of his people, the favour of the might learn to play tennis and row upon Divine Husbandman at the Temple of the lake. The lad himself longs for the Agriculture, or receive the homage-bear-freedom of wider space with all the eager- ing envoys of tributary tribes, But within ness of youth, gazing wistfully through the precincts of the Forbidden City, all the bars of his gilded cage upon the outer the elaborate ceremonial of the Court,world, of which he has heard so much its ordinances, ritual, and high-hotinding and seen nothing. He takes a boy's in- titles, remain unchanged Around and terest in all the mechanical inventions of about him are the Iron-capped Princes the West, and displays serious appli- and the hereditary chieftains of the Eight cation in endeavouring to master their Banners, picturesque but parasite survi-principles and uses. When, in December vals of a once warlike race; and a con-last, President Hen" asked Mr. Johnston siderable portion of the Republic's four to suggest suitable presents to be sent to million dollar maintenance grant goes to the Emperor on his birthday in Febr support in listless idleness the three orary, Mr. Johnston asked his pupil for four thousand Manchu pensioners who list of the things that he would like. have their homes either here in the First on the list was a typewriter. The Tartar City, or in the neighbourhood of Son of Heaven, tapping dutiful inesanges the Imperial tombs. Last, but not least, on a typewriter to the Dowager Consort the Chinese eunuchs of the old regime of Tang Chib, is an idea which might still infest the Palace, to the number of be disturbing to one's sense of the fitness successors of the rats and foxes" whose and hustle through the once sacred en evil influence contributed so greatly to closure of the Tung Hua Yuan. But the the demoralisation of Han Tung'a Arabian Nights atmosphere of the palace ancestor. The situation thas created, of the Buddha's days is a thing of the Gilbertion no it may seem, is eminently past, and the note which a typewriter may characteristic of that fastnet of the sound in the Forbidden City is bat one Chinese nee mind which is always op the many whisperings of the winds posed to inality, either in business of in' of change," politics, which deliberately leaves loop holes for compromise and makes provision for probable reactions.
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