Axes ago, no one knows when, by legal authority, persons arriving at the age of sixty were condemned) to be buried whether dead or alive, These voulis were built, by loving children to preserve their parents, In these vaults they were buried, Vat also lived, being fed and eared for by their children, At Chufu these tombs are called Yiu-leo-mu (oil-basket-tombs) cause their appearance is similar to the large bottles used by the Chinese for bean oil; small at the base, bulging above, and then smaller at the top. They are also called Niv-long-mu, calf tomb, thereby hangs a tale that has story connected with it answers the question:
Why do Chinese Reverence Age?
Ages ago when old people were being. preserved in the "oil-basket-the King's palace became haunted by some strange anime They were the size of calves and very destructive as to grain, clothing and furniture jand also vicious No one recognized the animals and for fear they were the incarnation ©f some demon ar god, they dared not kill them. The king determin-fed their identity must. be known, s0 the decree went forth from the palace royal that the princes of the kingdom must discover the genus of the beasts, or a_prinee would executed daily till their identity. was established. Four princes had been killed and the time. had arrived for the fifth to produce evidence as to their nos. This Goth prince was one of the Alial rons who wax at this time eupportaxed father in an "el "thus secretly pre-
He visited his father and said: Father, T fear this is a long farewell. "To-morrow is. my turn to appear before the King and prove the genus of the animals at present devastating the royal palace, Iinow not what they ate, £0 my life forfeited." The father self, T can dilemma, Those animals are rats: conceal a eat in your flowing sleeve when you and turn it loose in the presence the beasts. No matter if the rat the size of a: calf. it will tremble he sight of a cat. If the beast trembles, then it ix a rat.
The Pardon This speech filled the son with hope and joy. Me confidently enter= ed the King's palace, and in his Presence turned loose the cat before als. And sure enough, the nine rats trembled at the were The King was over-Joxed and d ved to know how the prince had the trick, "If ¥ tell you, Oh Ki will pay for the secret, me ta forgive my transgression and T will reveal ree of this know. edge." The King promised, 80 he told him how he was preserving the life of his aged father contrary to Inw, and he was the one who had the wisdom to recognize the ele Phantine rat, Than thankfully and with a Joyous heart, the King reversed the decree for the old and proclaimed: "Turn loose all the aged. Preserve their lives. Truly wisdom is with the ancient ones, and tnderstandme and might belong unto them."
shy China reverences age, you don't believe my tale, Chufa, and you will see the oil-basket vaults to prove it.
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