CHAPTER III

General Tcheng-Ki-Tong and his book on China--The monuments of China--Those the Chinese delight to honour--A Chinese heroine--Ingredients of the "Cup of Immortality"--Avenues of colossal statues and monsters in cemeteries--Imperial edict in honour of K'wo-Fan--Proclamation of the eighteenth century--The Emperor takes his people's sins upon himself--Reasons for Chinese indifference to matters of faith--Lao-Tsze, or the old philosopher--His early life--His book, the _Tao-Teh-King_--His theory of the creation--Affinity of his doctrine with Christianity--Quotations from his book 57