China As I Saw It a Womans Letters From the Celestial Empire
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Now at last we should see those " acres of polished marble " of which we had heard so much but not a bit of it. Before us, raised on a flight of marble steps, stood a circular temple, one blaze of enamelled tiles of every colour of the rainbow, and this apparently was the " Hall of Fasting, " where the " Son of Heaven " prays and meditates before going up to the great altar to worship. The interior of this radiant building was simplicity itself just the Emperor's seat, an ex- quisitely carved s...creen, an ebony " tea-table, " and nothing more. We passed out again and back into the shadowy cypress woods and the pine-scented atmosphere and the almost death-like stillness. We walked on and on, a couple of silent Chinese leading the way. We 70 From a Photografh by E. Murray. TEMPLE OF HEAVEN, PEKING Page 70 China as I Saw It had gone some distance, when suddenly there burst into view one of the now familiar " blood-red " walls, edged along the top by dazzling porcelain tiles of blue and green and yellow, but chiefly blue.
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