HISTORICAL REFERENCES TO PEKINGESE TYPE 



night, to storm it. His soldiers tunnelled beneath the walls 

 of the city and a part of it fell to the ground, leaving a great 

 breach easy to be stormed. The Imperial officers urged a 

 general assault, but the Emperor ordered them to wait for 

 the arrival of his favourite. The preparation of her toilet, 

 however, caused such delay that the defenders were enabled 

 to barricade the breach with beams. A few days later the 

 Emperor, accompanied by this concubine and his ministers, 

 was watching a minor engagement, which finally turned 

 against his troops, with the result that the lady, being stricken 

 with panic, counselled flight. Her fears communicated them- 

 selves to the ministers and also to the monarch himself. 

 Notwithstanding his great superiority of troops, the Emperor 

 fled first to Taiyuenfu and then to his capital, Changtefu. 

 These in turn fell into the hands of the pursuing enemy, and, 

 fleeing towards the Province of Shantung, the defeated 

 Emperor was caught half way. Finally, together with his 

 concubine, he was executed." * 



References to pet dogs are numerous in the T'ang history : 

 " The Emperor of the Turkoman country visited the 

 Honan Emperor in 609 and accompanied the Emperor Yang 

 Ti on an expedition to Korea. He married a Chinese princess 

 on his return. His successor sent an envoy with two dogs, 

 one male and one female, to the Emperor Kou Tzu (6 18-629). 

 Their height was about 6 tsun (inches), and their length i ch'ih 

 (foot) and a little .f These dogs were of great intelligence. 

 They could lead horses by the reins, and each was trained to 

 light its master's path at night by carrying a torch in its mouth. 

 These dogs were born in the Fu Lin country." t 



* Yu P'i T'ung Chien. 



f This was probably the Chinese builder's scale. On this scale one Chinese foot 

 of 10 Chinese inches is equal to \z\ British inches. These dogs were therefore 

 j\ inches high and \-i\ inches long. 



J T'ung K'ao, by Ma Tuan Lin (lived about A.D. 960, in Sung Dynasty), and 

 T'ung Tien by Tu Yo. 



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