With Ting Wang, the emperor sent as a guardian of his son the greatest statesman of his day, Chia I. He was almost precocious in the early age at which he rose to the highest ranks of scholarship, insomuch that older and less brilliant scholars were greatly offended. On the main west street of the ci between the two west gates, there is a memorial temple to Chia I, or Chia T'ai-tsun as he is there styled. Numerous inscriptions carved from the autographs of the writers, who were distinguished scholars who have at one time or another paid a pilgrimage to the spot, adorn the walls of the corridors. A well at the front and a marble settee at the back are alleged to be actually connected with Chia. The first time I went to see the "bedstead", a student courteously removed his own bedding and box to enable me to have a good view of the relic. Later. I have taken other visitors to see the sight, but the room has been locked and peeping through the door-screen one has been able to see loxes of bullets piled up on the settee, the temple having been occupied by soldiers for most of the past years.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.