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5. Other altars, consecrated to the local gods, of grain, have been erected, and some of them are still stauding, in town and country, scattered in every direction, at the distance of each Chi- nese inile.

For these altars, a slab of granite, or aught else large enough to contain the short inscription tú kuh shin, ±, "earth grain gods," will suffice.

6. Wan miau,, the temple dedicated to the god of litera- ture, is connected with and forms a part of the buildings in which the governmental college has its seat. In this temple there is a tá shin sien, ★, a hall dedicated to one, of whom the em- peror Yung ching said.

Sang min wi yú: 4* * *

"Of those of women born, there never was the like.”

The hall is spacious, and has a great number of other inscriptions,

giving honor to their sage. Among them you will see the two fol- lowing:

Win shí sỉ pháu;

萬世師表

"Ten thousand ages master pattern;"

Yü tien tí tsán;

與天地參

"With heaven and earth equal."

In the same hall you will see images, one of which is dedicated to chi shing sien sz' Kung tsz, BF, "The most holy master, Confucius." Arranged around him, there is a host of disciples and followers, and among them are Mencius and Chú Hí, or Chú fú tsz, as he is commonly called.

7. Behind this hall there is another, which is dedicated to the great sage for five generations. This hall is called Tsung shing tsz”, and there you may see an image of the father or head

of each of those five generations, and each is styled shing wáng,

WE "holy king," this being part of the title given them by the 聖王

emperor Yung-ching.

8. In the same collection of buildings, directly before you after

passing on beyond the ming lun túng,

literature styled, Wan chúng ti kiun,

'

the god of

has a court

called Tsun king koh, the honorable classical pavilion.” But at present this god of literature receives his homage in a small