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HALL 7. 
CHINA. 
NOTES FURNISHED BY MR. H. SLING, OWNER OF THE COLLECTION. 
In this room are arranged the religious furniture of a Chinese 
Buddhistic temple. The various figures and groups of figures are 
intended as examples and object lessons in morality, more espec- 
ially those in cases one and six. 
Case 1 and 6. — The members of the Buddhistic Pantheon. 
In the upper part of these two cases are shown those who, 
having lived an exemplary life on earth, are now being rewarded 
in heaven. This high distinction is obtained through canonization 
by the Emperor, who both declares who shall be elevated to mem- 
bership in the pantheon, and over what his authority shall extend. 
The Ten Courts of Justice: In the lower part of these cases 
are shown the Ten Courts of Justice, before which the souls of 
those who have infringed the Buddhistic laws of life, are tried. 
Here we find the punishment of a traitor, who is being roasted to 
death under a copper bell; the punishment of a butcher who is a 
heavy offender against the Buddhistic teachings, which forbids 
the taking of life; the punishment of a parricide, who is cut in 
pieces; and finally the last Court of Justice, where those who have 
lived a life of mere animal enjoyment are compelled as a punish- 
ment to re-enter life under the forms of animals. 
Case 2. — Models of the gardens of rich families; a portrait 
of Confucius, the great teacher of morality; and in the south half 
of the case, fish baskets, frog nets, forks, rakes, harrows, plows 
and other farm implements. 
Case 3 . — Contains four tableaux of traditional events. 
1. — The Emperor and his suite in a religious procession. 
la — A young Emperor, following the custom of the Imperial 
Family, going to worship his lately deceased father. 
2. — Two generals coming before the Emperor to pray for re- 
enforcements. 
3. — A captive general being sent for by his former master 
escapes from his guards after a struggle and returns home, leav- 
ing his wife, who is the daughter of his captor. 
