The streets of Changsha have very little to distinguish them from those of other large Chinese cities of over a quarter of @ million population. The one industry that is pecular to this city, is a sort of silk embroidery in black and white silks that forms an agreeable contrast to that in all colours that is carried on here as elsewhere.
There is but one really fine temple in the city: the Fu Confucian. It is not far from the only south gate. The oldest inscription dates from the carly days of the Manchu dynasty.
The three western gates, deed the whole low and mean in proportions, giving an unfavourable view of the city from the river. Some of the principal streets are lighted throughout the night by electricity. These streets are cleaner than the average Chinese city streets.
One temple on the main street, between the central and southern west gates, is the only really antique memorial in the city. It is to the honour of Chia I, a statesman sent to the help of the prince of Changsha" by Wen Ti, the emperor of the Han Dynasty, who reigned from B. C. 179-156, Little is known of Chia I, less of the' Changsha Prince"—the first historical use of the name. There is a well, which still supplies the neighbourhood with water, and a settee of white fare associated with Nothing of really first rate importance occurred inthe city during the long reigns and dynasties that followed on after Wen Ti's reign until we come to quite modern times. The great scholar Chu Hsi held office in the province and presented to the college on the Yoluh hill (as he did to many other places) specimens of his writing which are engraved on stone tablets on the college walls. The college is one of the comparatively few places at which there-are images of Confucius and his disciples.
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