Close to the pagoda is the Yao Wang Kung, or Medicine Prince's Palace and we are received by the—privstin-charge. The place does not look much like a palace, but imaginati goes long way with ole pooply as is evident in this instance. The priest is most affivble and over sunday cups of tea Feappeurs that 3,000. years—more or less vives us the history of the Fong Pagoda.
of course, for the Chinese are rather hazy about dates—there was living at Soong kong a mandarin who according common lot of mortals fell sick and was nigh unto death, In his extremity, finding that doctors and quacks could de him no good, he made a vow that if he recovered
him at his word and he fulfilled his pro-would build " pagoda, The gods took mise, the Fong pagoda being the result. With regard to the palace, we learn it] was built to the honour and glory of Hua'To, a celebrated medico who lived wt Changon. he fame of this Bsculapius had gone forth over all the world, and among the many patients who consulted him was Tsao 'Tsuo, afterwards prince of Wei, a chief of the 'Three Kingdoms, about a couple of conturies after the Christian Eva, 'Isto havi suffered from headaches caused by being spat at by the decapitated head of Ching' Chen, whom one of his(Tsao's) generals had Veaten, and whose head was placed in Tsao's hand by a treacherous servant who had killed his master in the hope of obtaining reward. Tsao would have nothing to do with it, but before he could get rid of it, it spat at him. When Hua To told Tsao] that to be cured he must allow his head to Ve opened, the chief was very angry and/ supposing that the medico wished to take his life ordered him to be put to death. In after years, Hua To was deified and is worshipped by the Taoists on the 28th of the 4th incon.
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