eect TO THE KEN, Before there was a king in Isreal] <when Eli was High Priest and Samuel was Prophet and judge—there ruled in China an Emperor named Chow-Sin. He was so debauched and cruel that even to-day his name is a synonym for all that} is wicked. Three names have been preserved as brave, honourable men Who resisted his rule and tried to make reforms.
Among these is Wei-Tse and his!
all reverenced. To, the large shallow lake and from its midst there emerges a secluded, fertile island about four miles long fand oval in shape.
From its western end it rises rapidly to the height of perhaps 150 feet and then gently slopes to the east. A dozen or more pros perous and peaceful, villages nestle along its shores and send out hundreds of fishing boats upon the quiet waters of the lake.
The highest point of the island capped by an immense mound which is the crown and pride of the island, This is the tomb of Wei-Tee who, heart broken over the: degeneracy of the closing years of the Yin Dynasty, sought seclusion on this isolated spot.
From this ancient hero for right oonsness, this lake and island both derive their name. It lies about 30, Li from its depot on the Tsinpu RR. and can easily be reached by boat.
Stones picked up at random prov~ ed to be iron and marble. Though there are many graves of huge size fon the island, next to the grave of Wei-Tse the most conspicuous hed on prominent crest to the west of the tomb, This is a striking monument minister from Korea shed evangelistic work far as Harbin, tomb of Confucius fs not far Tenghsien and a few miles his grave is another nearly 2,000 years older than his—one of China's first emperors—Sao-Hua, The dates concerning him are somewhat legendary, but he lived between 2,100 to 2,500 B.C.
Sao-Hao's tomb is about 25 fect in height, pyramidal in shape, and reminds One very much of the pic~ tures of ancient graves in Mexico and South America, adding its testimony to the theory that the American Indians were from eastern Asia,
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