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PERINO.
Paint them, and if you are wise you, I will take refuge in impressioniam, and wash in your own mood rather than their faint. The glaze of the triple canopy is perfect still, though hare and there on the roofs of the surrounding buildings it is weather-worn and fretted, scaling off. But it is not so well with the circular walls that take refuge beneath the mighty caves. Here the azures of yes It is an unwise thing for a traveller, interday have become ash of ultramarine, painting the picture of any distant place, to overload his canvas with small touches, though for most of us the sudden strange detail of a remote country is often more insistently attractive than the broader lines of its life. So, in order that me mory's digestion be not overstrained, I will write of but three or four of the treasures in and near Peking; and that the choice be not accused of precosity, that curse of writers on foreign scenes, let us take the greater things things of which at least the existence known to most of those who read these words.
CHIEN MEN WAŁ TAO.
and on the north and west the crimsons and greens wear veils of dust from dis- tant Gobi. The scarlets are faking; the sparse gold is brown and dead; and, beneath all, the gunny wadding," with, its; thin coat of stucco, is peeling off in panels and patches--yet every mishap that the Temple suffers makes purer still its harmony. Inside the huge pillars which support the weight of the roofs are said to be already touched with decay, and there are some who will tell you that, unless drastic restoration is carried out, the whole building will fall in 50 years. If so, one is lucky to have seen it before the hand of the modern restorer sets straight the lines of the roofs, fur- bishes anew with varnished crimson madder the beautiful rusty sub-structure that rots and fades into & more perfect tone from year to year. Of the wood- work within nothing need be said here.
THE ALTAR OF HEAVEN.
Let us get into a ricksha, because it travels more delicately and slowly than a car, and set out for the Temple of Heaven. One goes out south beneath the great bulk of the Chier Men, which is the greatest of all the gates that human hands have built; nay, compared with it the Buland Darwaza itself of Fatehpur Sikri is but a high-propped hole of great
Coming back from the "jungle outsido but tenuous beauty. Thereafter we are the northern wall we go up another ramp. in the Chinese, or Outer City, of which and cross the weed-strewn courtyard the walls are nearly as great in length beneath the shadow of the Temple. On As these the Tartar City we have just the eastern side is a raffle of corridors, left. But it is less closely packed with courts and store-houses containing many houses, and within it there are still wide of the paraphernalia needed for the old spaces and quiet parks. To the most sacrifices. Beyond them, strewn on the splendid of these we make our way along open ground, are large white lumps of & perfectly straight thoroughfare, the Im stone roughly backed into conventional perial highway of other days. "Into it cloudshapes. These, says Madame Lauru, debouch countless dark and narrow were used by the Emperor Yu on a me- streets, between which the whole way is morable day 4,000 years ago to plug up. bright with the display of goods, of shop the holes in heaven and stay the Deluge; signs and of banners, and here and there and one likes to believe it, though crude projects the gilt and carved front of some history suggests that the dood abated notable house. For the whole of the day when Yu cut new channel's to the sea, and and part of the night the street is
won his Throne thereby. Under the road. huddle of equal-running rickshas and a botween Temple and Altar runs a tunnel gaggle of banking bicycles, Here and with a strange echo, and on the western there motor-cars breast through the mov-side we may climb up the ramp that I ing tide. The richer Chinese love to mentioned first. From here southward to motor through the streets with their motor the, Altar--some quarter of a mile-the horns in continuous blast: not so much raised stoneway is beset, like nearly all for the safety of their brethren as for the pavements here, with towering weetls. mere delight of noise-in which from the You are given no, hint of the coming of highest to the lowest they take more the Altar of Heaven. As you swing pleasure than in their gods.
round a little blue-roofed temple and the A mile past Chien ten the crowd thins pavilion, that acts as entrance to it you out, and beside us are the walls of parks are confronted at short range with the to right and left. Far down against that a moving thing in Eastern Asia. to the right is the execution ground,
Within a low circular wall of brick set where in the mornings the last sentence about with trees rises the Altar in three of the law is carried out before a marble-tailed ascents. It is white-so apathetic group of the criminal's country-white that its physical whiteness, is that men. The offending bodies are then taken to their burial ground beside the moat which protects the south-western corner of the Tartar City.
THE TEMPLE OF HEAVEN,
which first strikes the eye just as its sym- bolic whiteness is that which memory carries away. There are other buildings in, the world of which the whiteness is famous, but none of them is really white, The Parthenon is really golden, and the Taj, in Agra, is nobly streaked and stain- ed with gray; but here, where a slant of recent rain has washed the Altar rail- ings, the marble is like a break in a leaf of sugar. To the casual ere this triple circle is one of the simple things of life as simple as the sea, or God, or.gravity seems to the casual eye. But to those. who look a little deeper these concen- tric rings are, as it were, the vortex. wherein the traditions and characteristics, the nature and force, the real movement and even the tremendous wix inertiae of modern China revolves incarnate. How were these graceful circles used
We turn sharply to the left and through the outer wall we move into the gate of the inner wall of the Tien T'an, or Temple of Heaven. If you like you may still pursue your way straight forward along the avenue, and climb the steep ramp up to the causeway that joins twa holy places. From the top of this ramp you may go either way-left to the Temple, or right to the Altar. But if you be less impatient than some, you will turn off north-eastward from the avenue along a sandy cart-track fringed with high-feathered grasses, tangled Michasimas daisies and dying katang, into the dense jungle of tall gnarled junipers that knew the Mings. Then you
AN IMPERIAL MEDIATOR brush your way through the scented
No other religion, no other race, has weeds and undergrowth beneath the wall, ever offered the marvel of an emperor until the flashing dark blue of the great and autocrat-absolute ceremonially iden triple roof suddenly filters down to you tified with a human scapegoat willingly through, the green leaves. It is better offering himself as a sacrifice for the sins to see the temple in this way. For if you of his people. At least at least, ont got to it by the way of nearly all flesh remembers and is silent. And one would you will first look upon the building from give much to know how the magnificent a pavilion, laid out with tea tables and custom rose "and when it was first ob lemonade. Sooner or later you may, in served by the Sons of Heaven in the deed, have to face this unfortunately East. Magnificent it surely way. For, placed restaurant; but you should give during the most solemn moment of this yourself first one chance of seeing the offering, the Chinese Emperor, clad in the Tien T'an as it should be seen, towering ceremonial robe that none but he might, and lonely, decently screened by trees, wear, stood alone on the highest circle and unapproachable-a sheer piece of and there, on behalf of all his subjects, magician's work. It has the unconscious mediated for them and took, upon himself dignity of all supreme, architecture-but the burden of sin, wherever and by whom. its builder knew. Other Imperial build-soever. it had been committed. He alone ings may need them, but from the Temple. Was responsible. Like Moses on Sinai, of Heaven no little dragons spit from the he was face to face with God. No canopy roof at your approach and beneath its of timber and tiles stood between him shade even the beggars are silent and and his Judge. the tourists' high-pitched admiration is a little subdued.
Yet. on the Emperor's way thither and on his return, the pomp with which the That the purple of Tyre was the noblest Imperial movements were always sur- colour in the alchemy of man has been rounded rose to its height. The upper repeated so often that we, who never storeys of every house, along the road by saw it, take it for granted-till we reach which he was borne were emptied, and Peking. But these uplifted blue ribe the lower storeys blinded; the by-streets challenging the sky, as half a mile away were curtained off. No man dazed look the Emperor yearly challenged his God, upon his. Sovereign in this supreme mo shake our faith This glaze of graduated ment. The very soldiers who kept the there's the secret lapis lazuli and processional way turned their backs to indigo has at least no rival to-day. It glory that they deemed too great for is transfigured from bour to hour, and, hutan eyes. Of course, a ritual soon as beats the work of a master, can afford sprang up to clothe with ceremony this to be the servant of all circumstance. It face-to-face interview between the Chi- varies ne the daye light or shade directa,nese God and his Vice-Begent upon earth, it salutes the dawn with streaks of the but in spirit this great overture remained Imperial yellow of the east it spends the as significant as ever to the very end- sunset olad in the Imperial purple of the the end that we ourselves have lived to west. It answers the altitude of the moon witness, and the more significant because day sun, and it changes colour (de the on no other occasion, except in times, of temper of the sky behind its golden kngh the direst national calamity, did the is fery, overhung, or, dull
Son of Heaven own to the world posses sion bf.a human failing. Few people re BOME BLESSED CHANCE,
turn to the heart of Peking except in a This Temple of Heaven is not so much chastened mood. No Papal Mass in architecture as some blessed chance in Rome, no Meli at Allahabad, no pil- design wherein for 500 years, not a line or grimage to Mecca can ever have the plain tint has been changed, however often it sancity that is instinct in the service that may be restored or rebuilt, and it is as was rendered upon these circlets of whité clusive as all inspired work must be. stone. Draw those roofs, and you will go wrong We, too, retrace our stops, and soon seven times over the width of them, the curve of them, and above all their weight, so subtly indicated by the subsidence of the cross-bcams, massive as they are."
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