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CHINA'S EMPEROR ON
DRAGON. THRONE
NEW YEAR RECEPTION.
GREAT COURT CEREMONY.
{FROM PERCEVAL LANDON ]
TARing China still pays to the person Lof the Emperor; partly because in these turbulent days of chaos the yellow silkers cord which Republican, China has deliber- ately retained in order to bind together her present and her past, may in some dark week be kuddenly and irrevocably frayed and torn. More than all, perhaps the scene was poignant as the last echo of the pomp and panoply of the most gur geous of all human Courts: No longer does the Emperor make his way between shrouded houses and guarded streets to the Altar of Mediation between Earth and Heaven. Never again, perhaps, will the terrible full state that added
borrar myen Entuuus Empress-Dowager and u so late as 1908 to the pawing of th Kuang-Hsu
PERLY... For the Arst time a small number of foreigners were permitted this morning to attend the greatest of the annual ceremon ies of the Chinese Imperial Court the Emperor's reception on New Year's Day, There
were but half a score of us, but the e
but had that is not without
Zat the present moment attend the death struggle
especially, perhaps, because the departure Head of China Gone for ever is the old from ancient rule was made at the wish
Wish unreasoned despation over body and of the Emperor himself, in whose charac-alike of
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ter there nothing stronger or more per. fus of all beneath the Yellow Throne QALOUTTA KINW' -* "Thin Line` affords - regular - satikage do. Quizsika, Pensng sit
is
sistent than his determination, to sljust his own position to the detratic tendencies
of the present time.
and with it has vanished that secular aloofness which alike clouded relations with subject and foreigner, 'friend and enemy. But here is still the proof that It is as well to remind Englishmen of China through new eyes looks with kind- the anomalous situation of the Imperial tiness and unabated foralty upon the spirit Court of Peking since the establishment of union for which the Drage Throne of the existing Republican form of go-stood as nothing else can now stand in erament. It is true tha,, in most respects all China. Houan-Tung practically lives interned within the courts of his forefathers but nothing indicates misappreciation of his
still holds his Court, and it is as
An hour later we were within the Ins perial private courts of the Forbidden City. As befitted the New Year" celebra- tions, there were lanterns, lanterns all
real position more than any reference him as ex-Emperor. This he is not. By the way-lanterns that we in Europe
Act creating the Republic the title
might was a millennium for our candle Manchu
Emperor was specifically rare makers to invent, Them with the Em- for him, and it is as Emperor that Hsuan-peror, & quiet, simple, friendly young Emperor tent the Republican Minister man, into the quiet garden g't about will to-morrow-and on his birthday on the with gems of temples, white pisné, vod 13th-attend and pay him their respect bestows about her Imperial grounds gnurled junipers such as only Peking No doubt the situation appears a paradox in European ores; but it is in this charac where we were joined by the Empress and teristically Chinese way that the real in her attendants. There was a parting tentions and feelings of the Chinese scene wherein the exquisite beauty of the have been slated into and incor. old Manchu regime was mingled with a with the new régime. With the frank and almost European welcome that. the new world spirit which in Imperial quarters has come to leaven the loaves of China. Long and hard the road may still he before she realises her own enormous position and vast potentialities within the But it will be new world of to-day. rendered the ensier by the commonsense and kindly sympathy of these two Im- perial guests of the huge Republic of China that Hsuan-Tang's childish hand itself created.-Day Telegraph.
4 so frequent and so subtle in i had it been needed. was best witness to
Celestial mentality, the Emperor has been given full Imperial rank and status as though he were the guest of his own people as a visiting Emperor.
300-YEAR-OLD ‘RITUAL.
Except the mere number of those who were present, this morning's ceremony offered the same spectacle as it has for 50 years. Nothing was changed or omitted from the old ritual of the New Year recep. Lion. In the outer court dignitaries lower rank took their places once more in the accustomed order. They could, in deed, tee nothing und hear nothing, “except the words of command, which enabled then to make their obeisance at the same moment as the higher nobles and officials within the Court of Audience itself. Across this latter quadrangle a marble causeway, with its sixty-four cloud and dragon posts, aweeps up to the doors of the pria Throne-room. On a wide space outside, beneath the double eaves of yellow tiles, were gathered the same his. toris instrumens that have for ages graced And ordered this, the briefest but most important of the remaining solemuities of the Manchu Lynasty. As one faced the great doors one saw on the left, two high golden frame bearing seventeen quarat gongs shaped like a knight's move in chess On the right was a huge drum reverbefa ting on
support, "Radi two other
WEATHER REPORT.
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Bengkong rainfall for the 24 hours ending at 18 hours, 18th March, 0,01 inch. Total since January 1st, 5.67 Inches, against an average of 444 inches.
The forecast-for the 24 hơnen onding at 18 hours, Mar. 17th is as follows
DIETZIOT
Fixinant
frames hearing, as on the other side, six--Formse Chatbal teen smaller. golden bely and one large
bell respectively. All were lacquered and, fashioned above and below with the Im-
N.E. winds, fresh.
perial symbol, and during the rite com- Hongkong to Gap Rock (N.E. winds, fresh
fi
eunuchs pany of
scarlet turnies, in long, alternately
ely played upon them and raised highpitched wailing, which gave the signals for genuflections. At the outer edge of this space two more drums were set, but these had screens before them lest perchance the drummers should catch an unauthorised glimpse of the Emperor on his throne within the doors,
THE DRAGON "THRONE, `Laside, upos a triple dais in front of a Ginely proportioned five-fold screen of gold- en lacquer, stood the famous Dragen Throne, upon which Hsuan-Tung, after his visit to the Sacred Hill outside, was to take. crat. In front, and on either side of were the customary golden and. cloisonné ornaments, and a deep carpet underfoot, and the walks of the room rched the same tint of time-worn crimson. Scon
the causeway began to fill with orderly ranks of Chinese and Manchu grandees. None of lower grade than second--that indicated by an opaque red button-was allowed to be present, and all the foremost ranks wore the long able coat that is almost the highest mark of honour that can be given by the Emporer. Inside the throne-room only his nearest relations and a few persons of exeptional position were admitted to make the cbeisance in the presence itself. Among them was Mr. R. F. Johnston, English tutor to the Empero and one of his most. intimate friends, who, of course, merely
instead of performing, the kowtow
cumbent upon all others. In order still!
to hedge off the divinity of the Throne from public gare a large golden umbrella, with deep lken valance, was held up before the open doors, largely obstructing the view of all but the handful of high dignitaries inside the room. The ceremony of kowtowing which followed was a matter of a few minutes only. At traditional intervals the word was given by music, and repeated through the far- ther doors to the outer crowd. Three times the triple obeisance was made with the czas and instant uniformity of a con- gregation of Moslems in a great mosseque and the audience with the invisible Em- peror, was at an end.", A
IMPRESSIVE SCENE
bad, however, been curiously impres ave, partly from the completo silence ex- cept for the wailing music, the pecasional sound of ·a distant firework let off beyond Walls of the Forbidden, and Imperial or the faint, wail of a whistling
citing the blue sky towards
Hatamen-street, partly because of the sud den and full recrudescence of eclout of the old Manchu Court--the cerise and peach- bloom garments of the Palace officials, the golden Chasubles of the banner-bearers with leopard-skin hats and halberds deck- ed with scarlet and fur, the exquisite em broideries upon the dark silken robes of the notables, the vivid primaries of ver- milioa and azure and emerald, tozed by the
Péking dust to carnation and smalt and jade, framing the golden dragons writhing along the outer roof-beams of the Throne Room; partly because it, was the expression for yet another year of undying homage which even democratic but ances-
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