To-day In China we still see accompanying the wealthy on their last heartily Journey the paper images of animals, paper carte and of figures fon horseback. No doubt this Isa survival of the ancient custom of sacrifice as s0 graphically exhibited In the tombs of the Yins. The Yin Em-perers had. their' Capital in seven Afferent parts of China. Five of these were In Honan Province, one Shensi and one in Hopel. (until cently called Chih! Province).
The Chinese have apparently ale ways been fond of changing the ames of places. For instance, Changte was known as Hsiang when te 10u: Emperor, Ho Tien-chia had his palace here on the site of the little village now named Hsinotun on the south bank of the Anyang River, then called the Hwan. Since. then the name has changed eleven times, and the present official name is not Changte but Anyang.
'We should have been calling it Anyang since 1927 when the armies of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek overran the North. 'Changes in the ast do nat seem' to have greatly altered the lives of the people, but recent changes appear to Fave gone much deeper. Through all. the. influences that' have recently been brought to bear "upon the" people, there is manifest a reaching out into world thought, and. there can now be no turning back to ancient ways.
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