pom, comm sin Pog Sofa a a ate presented in the Chia-ping month of the Chi-hai year, twenty-fifth Sts Se nants hon nts Sue cee Simciy of ute, ie Serb Rae Batt septa" cines REET tee raalee ete" saab Siete aes Sat isuahe fates Ott erate tana! Sy! a a nee leaden fan nea clem ether one Sse Sone Be ese Ear ori mea a erica cee tae isp Se a a a This record of festivals, pilgrimages, Peking was published, as already Ces and St hata Persea ay cee modern Peiping and, many of them, eepletny watatecd sans which the publishers have given jthe "artistic care worthy of such a tess ae ain tie ens a's "ena eng st cad Slt! Bg ocind Se etn SiS fine "amt Seo expression, the translator points out show of beauty and how little of] Spa" ples ann detects the origin of that sea ce heed help "in the understanding of the heart of a great. people.
Beauly and Imagery Industrialism and the standardization lof the ways of life tend to obscure {this "consciousness of nature"—indeed to destroy it. It is all the more [desirable that this record of beautiful feusioms and the imagery attendant fon them should be faithfully preserved and understanding of it [generated The book is attractively Mustrated by line drawings and coloured plates of real merit. It takes each month of the lunar colon-_ dar and discusses the relevant festivals and customs. Thus of the sixth month the careful Tun Li-chen notes that on the sixth day the people of Peking "shake out their clothes and books, saying that thus insects and [bookworms will not appear." In the olden days elephants on the sixth Jday were led outside Hsuan Wu Men and washed in the moat in the pres-fence of a large concourse. On the twenty-fourth day worship is rentered to the God of War (Kuan Ti) who by opposing disasters and warding off calamities is held to be the people's benefactor. All yamens received the Imperial distribution of ice by tickets {from the Ministry of Works and during the month' too "the various loficials all wear yellow silk gauze hats and gowns of yellow silk crepe." On the first day of the sixth month fair is held at the Temple of the Princess of the Coloured Clouds. The lotuses are out and receive homage for their beauty. It is the season of persists the Great Rains, so when wet weather
the little girls in the women's quarters cut a human figure out of paper and hang it up on the left of the fate, calling, It "the iti who. wil)
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.