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Title: The dragon, image, and demon; or, The three religions of China: Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism, giving an account of the mythology, idolatry, and demonolatry of the Chinese
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: DuBose, Hampden C
Subjects: Taoism Buddhism Confucianism
Publisher: New York, A. C. Armstrong & son
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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emostly for effect as a street parade. See Chapter XXIII.,Picture of the Fairy Crane. Magic Credentials.—The luh is an official passportto travel in the foreign kingdom of Hades. The Taoistpriests go to Chang, the magician, and get a supply withwhich they trade with the people. The rank and titleis according to the amount of money paid by the living,and secures freedom from litigation in the other world,as, without this passport, a poor man would be unableto redress wrongs upon one of rank. Sometimes amandarins button for the land of shade is purchasedduring Ufe, but generally the rich obtain it for theirfriends soon after death. After the credentials are madeout the priests perform high mass for the dead, confesstuc ciiis of his life, and obtain forgiveness for him, andthe credentials are burned. They take the ashes in ayellow bag, go first to the temple of the Water Immortalto worship, and afterwards the yellow bag is tied to thetail of a carp, and he is turned loose in the canal.
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442 The Dragon, Image, and Demon. Funeral Procession—When music is heard in thestreets, even the natives cannot tell from the soundwhether it is a coffin or a bride passing by. The picturerepresents the procession to the grave, with the banners,gong, red mandarin umbrella, fan, official sign-boards,musicians, Buddhist priests, Taoist priests, happy-spiritpavilion, soul sedan-chair having the tablet within, thelanterns, and the coffin. When the soul sedan returns,the tablet is exchanged for a divine tablet, which isplaced on the divine seat; the priests chant words ofcomfort, and the ceremonies are over. CHAPTER XXX. DEMONOLATRY. ^^PIIS chapter does not embrace the whole of the-■- subject, for scattered throughout the book are theviews of the Chinese about spirits and demons. Calling back the Soul—Often the weird sound isheard during the silent watches of the night of a mancalling back the soul of a sick child. The lost soul ! howfearful are the words to us! With the Chinese the

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