Ancestral Temple in Forbidden!
City as Public Park Peking, Aug. 21.
'The Manchu Emperors' "Holy of in the Forbidden City of Peking is to be turned into a pub-lie park, and buildings to whith only the higher Manchu officials were formerly admitted will be opened to the public. The Tai Miao, or perial ancestral temple of the M: chus, houses the ancestral tablets of all members of the imperial family from the beginning of the Manchu dynasty. "Here, in richly lacquered halls, the magnificent an-castral tablets hang behind thrones which the Emperors and Empresses There is a dispute at present a to what shall be done with this interesting memorial-hall, The Gen-Jeral Labour Federation in Peking, had different from the Peking. Research Council, which had roceived permission from the authorities to turn the Manchu temple into 1 research institute, where the work the council may' be carried The Labour Federation thinks that this temple, with the charming wooded grounds in which it stands with rock caverns and wooded re: treats, should be made into a municipal park. The labour leaders want, the temple itself, with its ample buildings, to be turned into a Pine Arts Bureau, in which native goods may be exhibited, and before which 8 platform may be erected from which to expound the doctrines of the late Dr. Sun Yat-sen.
'The Palace Museam, which has! taken over the former' Mancha im. perial collections, announces that Mr. B.C. Kuo, an authority on Chinese porcelains, has been engaged to make a thorough classic tion of the thousands of pieces in the museum, making detailed know-description and plates of the most Valuable and unusual pieces.
The announcement adds that Str.
Hobson, one of the leading author England, is also coming to Peking shortly to in the classification, his vis made possible by a contribution of $5,000 from Sir Per-civil David, the English connoissear.
Mr. Kuo has devoted several years to an intensive study Chinese porcelains, having spent several months in Chingtehchen, one lof the leading manufacturing towns China. The porcelain collection, the Palace Museum is stated to be perhaps the best of its kind in the world, but lack of funds has made systematic arrangement of the impossible until the present time. Eventually, the museum officials hope to classify all branches of the museum similarly, and it la believed that students of Chinese art and handicrafts will be attracted from all parts of the world for study—United. Press. top of each page on the side the foreign date is given, whilst opposite the old calendar date tinted. Ritors are being urged set a good example to the people by eliminating the lunar date, showing only that which is used la Western lands.
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