Tae ruler of the two hundred and fifty millions of which the Chinese nation probably consists is now within five years of his majority, and is an occupant, while yet a minor, of the same apartments in which lived the Emperor who preceded him on the Dragon Throne. There he eats with gold.tipped chopsticks of ivory. There ho sleeps on a large Ningpo bedstead, richly carved and ornamented -with ivory and gold; the same on which the noble-minded Emperors Kang Hai and Chien Lung used to recline after the day's fatigue Inst century and the contury before. Like them, he is while still a boy spoken of by the eunuchs who constitute his personal attendants as Fo-yeh, the "Buddha Father," with the idea that he is worthy of the same worship as that accorded to Buddha in the temples of the followers of Sakya, Like one of those Living Buddhas who may be seen in a lamasery on the Mongolian plateau, selected while still little boys to the office of Incarnate Buddha, ho is knelt to by all his attondants and honoured as a god. There la this difference, that the respect felt for him is more profound than for them, The seclusion in which he is kept also is far more complete. But they are alike in respect to their being worshipped as divine, and in their being trained for the government—in the one case of a monastery, in the other of an Empire.
The building in which the Emperor resides is called Yang Hein Tion, Ifa plan of the Palace is consulted such as that published at Tokio ab the beginning of this century, it will be observed that this building is a little to the west of the Oh'ien Cb'ing Mao in the middle of the Palace. At the back of the Wu Men, which is the central gate on the south side, is the T'ai Ho Tien or great reception-ball. Behind this are first the Ohuog Ho Tien and afterwards the Pao HoTien. These three halls are situated in a large space intervening between various buildings of a more or less official character. If a line is drawn from west to eat ttle to the south of the middle point in the Palace, it will pass at the back of the Pao Ho Tien and through the Ch'ien
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