An exception from the usual style of architecture is made in the case of the last and most westerly of the straves, the Muling, where Tao-kuan ye is buried.
Even the rule of the front facing the south is not followed here, as the Muling faces due south-east. This is compensate ed for, however, by the very correct Chinese design and runs from south-east to north-west. Further, it must naturally be distinguished from the two other Emperors' tombs, as it is not the resting-place of Emperor Tao-kuang alone, but also of three of his wives defunct before himself. It is customary that the w dying before the Emperor should be bui ied in his tomb that is always built in hi lifetime and after his own design, but that after the burial of the Emperor himself the doors of the true grave are for ever closed, and thatthe Empresses dying afterwards. must have a special tomb.
But apart from this consideration, the conviction intrudes on the mind of the visitor to Muling that the} personal interest and sensitive precaution of a peculiar ruler for his last abiding-place has contributed towards its establishment. The name given to it by the Emperor, "Mul+ ing," the "Grave of Longing" shows it, (Continued om page 23.)
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