It is known that, like many other peoples and even in accordance with. present day custom, the Chinese were fu the habit of burying along with their "ancestors objects representing, familiar things associated with the deceased during their lives. Thus we again recognize. that faithful watch-dog, sometimes wearing a collar, like the strange petrified dog of Poinpeli_in its matrix of stone and round its neck a collar with a bell.
The elephants and two-horned rhinoceroses, which were probably as common 30 centuries ago in Central Asia as they now are in certain parts of Africa, the often" magnificently Dulit horses of the. Han and Tan periods, the useful camel, so commer fu northern China and Mongolia, the buffalo, still a part and parcel of peasant families throughout China, short all (ypes of animals, have been the' ayes until paratively recent times, chiefly through the medium of carved stone, pottery and painting, The depicting flora and fauna, of mountains and waterfalls too, develops from the Ming. period on.
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