Photo by A. T. Granger 



ROW OF ARCHKs (p Ai-Lous) e;re:cte;d to the; memory of widows who refused 



TO MARRY A SECOND TIME: NOTE THE PHCENIX (SEE PAGE lOOO) 



the past, like some of China's most an- 

 cient bridges, may be seen and reaHzed 

 today. In this her canals and bridges 

 are unhke forgotten cities and capitals 

 once their contemporaries, and unlike 

 China's centers of art and learning, only 

 fragments of whose buildings remain. 



The wonder inspired in the breast of 

 the_ traveler who visits China's vast re- 

 mains of abandoned capitals, extensive 

 temples ranged in successive courts and 

 on terraces of the mountains, its pagodas, 

 p'ai-lous, bridges, and canals, is equaled 

 by the awe inspired by the silence and 

 splendor of the tombs of China's em- 

 perors. The tombs of the kings of the 



"Six Kingdoms" in Shantung, though 

 now only earthern pyramids terraced 

 with little fields, have the air of the Pyra- 

 mids of Egypt. 



The Ming tombs, near Peking, are the 

 most famed in our day, perhaps, because 

 they are relatively in a good state of 

 preservation and are accessible to trav- 

 elers. They are approached through the- 

 five-arched stone p'ai-lou already men- 

 tioned (see page 1006) and by an avenue 

 of stone animals nearly 2 miles in length 

 (see pages 1007-1011). The sacred 

 buildings are placed on the southern 

 slope of the mountains and nearly in- 

 closed by their encircling spurs. 



