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EAST ASIA.
According to law,
Luchew, on the Upper Yang-tze, la consequence of a parricide.
old men after their seventieth year must be regarded as ancestors, and the honours
accorded to them increase with their At years. any cost the empire must remain
"filial," as the imperial edicts express it. Of the sixteen public lectures delivered
periodically to the people on the subject
of their duties, the first deals with
filial love. The official very designations of the cities, palaces, streets, and
public places form, so to say, a complete moral course inspired by the domestic
virtues. Amongst the twelve temples required by the law to be erected in
1 . Magistrates'
House.
y. University.
3. Residence of the Military Commander.
4. Corn Depot.
6 Depot of hice for Peking.
B. Literary Institute.
7. Temple of the Defender of the City.
8. Temple of the God of War.
9. Temple of the Protector of Earthly
Qood*.
Fig. 151. CHINESE QUAUTEU, SHANGHAI.
10. Temple of Blessincs.
11. Government Pal ice.
12. Tower of the Goddess Kwan Yin.
13. House of all the Benevolences.
14. Foundling Asylum.
15. House of all the Virtues.
16. Temple of the Fire Genius.
17. Palace of the Heavenly Uueen.
18. Hall of the Blue Mist.
19. Hall of the Nine Flowers.
20. Mound of the little opaque Sun.
21. Peace St-eet
22. Street of the Heavenly Eminences.
23. Street of the House of Eloquence.
24. Street of the Head looking backwards.
25. Street of the Approving llend.
26. Street of the Yrllow Head.
27. Canal of Excellence of the Starting-
point.
28. Serene Ssnctuiry of the Ancestors.
29 Bridge of the Thousand Ages.
every town, one is always consecrated to ancestry. Not a shop nor a wayside
inn but its signboard has some reference to virtue and justice and the " harmonies
of heaven and earth."
The natural relations of father and son are thus confounded with those of
emperor and subject, and this has been the mainstay of the State in the midst
of countless internal revolutions, foreign invasions, and dynastic changes. The
revolutionists do not seem to have ever aimed at the subversion of this fundamental
principle of government. Even the most advanced socialists have always
accepted the sacred character of the Emperor as at once the " Father and Mother "