Tientaishan was burned by the Japanese in the carly days of the kcstilities, because it was said to have housed Red units, and the idol together with the temple in which it was housed has disappeared. But that will not make any difference. When I last visited the ruined temple. I asked the solitary caretaker about the "mummy." when he promptly showed me another very voar and even smaller idol, which remember had been in the temple.
the old days, but which was cernly not the mummy idol.
I therefore venture to predict that in a few years time, when Tientaishan has been rebuilt, foreign tourists will be making picnics to the mple to see the "veritable mummy of the Emperor Shun Chih." And after all. why not? If you come to think of it. one mummy isos good another, specially if it is gilded over.
Lentils are $6 per catty and dry beans and peas are not far behind Fresh pork. beef. mutton and vension are enjoying soaring prices but are still low compared with chickens Innocently we once asked our servant to price what looked like a nice bird: $8 per catty replied the chicken vendor; how much does it weigh" Two and a half catties. It looks like rain I think I must hurry home!
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