412 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1900. 



Amazed at his atrange api)earauce, the warrior hastily retired to in- 

 form the people of the remarkalile man he had seen. The curious 

 people went to the bank and asked his name and surname, to whom 

 he replied: I am the son of the heavenly maiden Fokolun, ordained by 

 heaven to redore peace amomj you, and thereupon they nominated him 

 king, and he reigned there in Odoli City, in the desert of Oinohi, 

 east of Ch'ang-pai-shan." Another version of the legend states that 

 there were three heavenly maidens Angela, Changhela, and Foko- 

 lun. The first two returned to heaven, while Fokolun remained on 

 earth to nurse the miraculous babe till he grew up. Then she told 

 him to wait till a man came to fish. The fisherman came and 

 adopted the boy, and Fokolun ascended to heaven. Pere Amyot, 

 from whom this account is taken, identifies Fokolun with a sixteen- 

 armed goddess whom he calls Pussa, or the Chinese Cybele, but 

 <lescribed at the present day as a Boddhisatwa, a celestial candidate 

 for Buddhahood. The story continues that Aisin-Gioro, in spite of 

 his heavenly birth, was put to death by his people, and only his 

 youngest son, Fancha, escaped by the aid of a magpie, which 

 alighted on his head as he ran and made his pursuers think him 

 the stump of a tree. Fancha fled from Odoli across the Ch 'ang-pai- 

 shan to Hotuala and there, some two centuries before the birth of 

 Nurhachu, the first Manchu chieftain who took up arms against the 

 Chinese, he laid the foundations of the future dynasty of China. 

 (James, The Long White Mountain, p. 31.) 



384. Of white porcelain and bulging cylindrical shape, bearing an Imi^erial five- 



clawed dragon, well drawn in blue under glaze twisting around the bottle. 

 No mark. Height, 3i inches. 



385. Of white porcelain, cylindrical in shape, the lower jwrtion divided into two 



fluted sections by three double bands. Decorations, branches of pine, bam- 

 boo, and plum-blossom, symbolical of long life (see No. 181), in deep blue 

 under glaze. No mark. Height, 3 inches. 



386. Of rock crystal, flat and circular in shape, the two faces of a Carolus dollar 



being carved in relief on the sides. No mark. 



387. Of agate, in shape, a flat oblong with beveled corners, showing an admirable 



representation of a horse feeding, naturally formed in the stone, in brown on 

 a dull opaque white ground. No mark. 



388. Of pure white porcelain and of much flattened globe shape, decorated with a 



rebus on either side admirably painted in deep blue under glaze: (1) Three 

 crabs holding reeds, reading san }}'ang hsich ch'uan lu, and also meaning 

 " three generations gained the first class at the metropolitan examinations;" 

 (2) two pigeons perched in a willow tree, reading erhpa {k'o)teng k'e, and also 

 meaning ' ' at eighteen to be successful in the exanunations. " Mark Yim-shih- 

 ya-chUi, "made for Yiin Sliih-ya" — an unidentified name. 



389. Of white porcelain, tall and cylindrical in shape; decorated with children play- 



ing, of the natural color of the porcelain on a ground covered with thick lilack 

 glace. No mark. 



390. Of brown agate and ovate in shape. The surfac^e is carved so as to show 



monkeys of a yellow-white color gamboling in trees and on ground. 



391. Of white porcelain covered with a dark olive or "tea-dust" ( Ch'a-mo) glaze and 



pear-shaped. 



392. Of cream-white porcelain and of ovate form. On a light green ground, confined 



ab(jve and below by a narrow waving border of brick red, and moulded to 

 represent waves are the Eighteen lohan (Chin.) or arhat (Sanskrit), the im- 

 mediate disciples of the Buddlia (see No. 32) in high relief. On the cover are 

 waving bands of brick red and green alternately. Good spet-imen. No mark. 



