they saw foxes and wild.cats devouring them, and flies and gnats biting at them. The pers piration started out upon their foreheads, and they looked away, unable to bear the sight. It was not on account of other people that this perspiration flowed, and the motions of their hearts affected their faces and eyes, so instantly
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him with all his might. Indeed, when Con- fucius died one of his disciples mourned for him for six years. "Formerly when Confucius died, after three years had elapsed, his "disci. ples collected their baggage and prepared to return to their several homes. But on entering to take their leave of Tsze Kung, as
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was the rule, we have no means of knowing. It was indeed during "opper antiquity," that is, before wise kings and sages had delivered their rules and ceremonies that this indifference was shown. Nor can we really say whether this was the general rufear not, except that probably in China, as amongst other barbarous peoples, this course was followed as the cheapest and the easiest. It shocked the sage, and naturally
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- Mencius went from Ts'e Loo to bury his mother. Op his return to Ts'e, he stopped at. Ying where Ch'ung Yu begged to put a question to him, and said, "Formerly in ignorance of my incompetency, you employed
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tion to you. Now, however, I wish to take the liberty to submit the matter. The wood of the coffin, it appeared to me, was too good."
Mencius replied, "Andiently there was no rule, either for the inner or the outer coffin. In middle antiquity the former was made seven inches thick, and the outer one the same. This was done by all from the Emperor to the com- mon people, and not simply for the beauty of the appearance, but because they thus satisfied the natural feelings of their hearts. If pre- vented by statutory regulations from making the coffins in this way, men cannot have the feeling of pleasure; if they have not the money to make them in this way, they cannot have the feelings of pleasure. When they were not prevented and had the money the ancients all
used this style. Why should I alone not do so?" When we read that the wood of which the coffins were made in those ancient days was seven inches thick, we may perhaps raise our eyebrows in surprise, but that one's astonish. ment may not make cretience impossible, wa may add that were the wood measured by the standard of to-day, it would only measure four inches-which is about what we see among the wealthy families. It may be added that one is surprised that, the "custom has held the field so long with a people so stilitarian as the Chinese are, The dictum of Mencius bas,, without doubt, had its influence on the opinions of the people,
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In the South of China, in some distilcts at least, at the end of the prescribed three years of mourning, the grave of the deceased is re- opened, and the bones extracted. These are then carefully collected and deposited in large jars, which are then sealed down and placed in rows under some shady bank, and are pamed by irreverent jesters, because of an analogy so obvious that we need not refer to it, potted ancestors." At the end of these three years the coffin is by no means decayed. The thick planks are therefore exhumed and sold to certain merchants, who deal in such things, and they are ultimately resold for mak- ing dykes, canals, and simple bridges across the mountain streams. What is paid for a pair I do not know, but they are constantly on sale ; they are well-seasoned, and there is a large- trade done with them,
The long processions consisting of mourners and their sackcloth, relatives and their servants, horn-blowers, cymbal-clangers, and banner- bearers, the paper chair, and heaven knows what-for a European does not-which, blocks the ways and the gates of a Chinese city when a wealthy man is carried forth to his long home, are but the full fruition of the ideas which Confucius and Mencius insisted on so long ago. The man who thus honours his parents is regarded by the literati as a mint, and by those whom he einplays `as a "jolly good fellow." But even when all this cannot be commandod, through poverty, a good coffin'lis essential and must be obtained.“ I have seen a procession consisting of only two persons, and the bearers. Before the coffin marched
A BUDDIST-PRIEST, muttering, incantations, and scattering paper money, and behind there followed one was Evidently a near relative, probably a son. Yet In that case as in all other "the wood was good" and substantial. The period of three years! mouming which is the rule among the
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till they all lost their voices. After this they returned to their homes, but Tsze Kung went back, and built a house for himself on the altar- ground, where he lived alone other three years, before he returned home." But this could not be repeated, and when some one wished to ac cord the same honour to Yen jo the reply was, "This may not be done,"
Not only is the thickness of the coffin pre- scribed, and the length of time that must be devoted to mourning, but the nature of the mourning, of the robes to be worn, and even
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It is true that Mencius once said that "weeping for the dead should be from real sorrow, and not because of the living," which all who have given any thought to the subject will accopt, and we should have thought that this deliverance would have been sufficient. Atore elaborate instructions, however, were given. "When à Prince dies, his successor entrusts the administration to the prime afinister. He sips the congee. His face is of a deep black. He approaches the place of mourning and weeps. Of all the officers and
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