| Show YO u 1111 r Holy Doly Hill Dill in China and Its Traditions J 0 Litton ton noting consul camillI nt lit has tent to the tho foreign 1 n 1 report of or a II Journey ho him hilt made allo through h Northwest that portion of or China Chilia through which run the Yangtze and tho Ih and 1111 on Tibet and This district Is out of or the current of China trade trude Mr II Litton has hOH not many commercial suggestions of lie to make II kl but i II geographical and ethnological point of or view liln hl lions running to 23 fool cap aI pages Will be hu of or Kays tho London As A n II story nf trav d el through a 1 little III tip frequented lie II portion of or ortho the tho Chinese empire hll narrative will willbe be ho read by Iy ninny who lIu as a ill into do 1111 not lt spend much time onI leports Mr Litton for lor Instance I 1 the traveler through till rich Holds and of tho Ta Ill LI 11 plain and li hs s en enJoyed Joyed joell tIll the double vl v of ur bill hili and p PHIt h kuun may be hl Inter to lenin how this happy valley t comp Into 1110 So he tells the tho quaint talc In tho legend Uio lit folk CoIl lore 1010 may IlIn discern tra traditions of or tin early lully lo of ot the first of ut tilt advent r of mine col It that In the days the vaters of the lake till foot of till the Shall mid there thoro no The caverns In the III hUll were or Inhabited by a U yno or monstrous I I II 1 who u od to III milly forth fi r his fund tear out and devour eyes of lit tho Chinese In tho neighborhood Kunn Yin the Iho of or mercy pitying III the of or the tho people oPI mIl upon the tho scene an 1111 a II venerable nun In III her ka k or 01 yellow llIo 0 roh and accompanied by h a lame dog dOi Addressing the tho she promised to supply him with tho food which ho nn on condition that he ho would her a n patch of dry land under thu hills How Ho much dry land the tho mon monster ster The breadth replied the god dc let of or my yellow robe 1011 and the length of or leaps of or my 10 dog After Attel haggling n contract on these Be terms was IS reduced to writing Hut But when hen the tho aged nun spread out tho It covered n a space of oe l 11 II and such Willi till the uncommon of ot the tho dog that In three leaps he hI cleared u 11 of lit II Por Pur his food no I the god gol goldo do s captured and IO the Iho eyelike contents to tu the tho yno 10 tho voracious hut but unwary monster seems to 10 have hao thought that he lind been HW In died and became where whereupon upon the goddess him and In Intoned toned him In III a n hole holo or 01 cavern In the tho earth near Hid lI l Chou hou where there was only anI a II small open through he hp could breathe In his hili struggles KIs Ids hili I breath Issuing from he slit silt burn hurn burned ed 01 up the thu of ue the Ihl hike Ilke Hut thu tho bad cast a spell on the mon monster ster Ho So long ns at lit atthe the west gato Jato of or Ta Tn M during the thc third moon HO long must the Ihl monster remain In durance vile wherefore to tn Ihl day at lit the commencement of ut tho great the tho general 1 comes out In III Ires off nil his artillery HO lill that dragon OIl may 1111 know that tI time of nt his release l IH not yet cl In III case this bald buill narrative falls to 10 convince the tho skeptical Ill Mr h adds fitts II I may point out that the length of lit tho Tn Ill LI 11 Plain from the Ih up upper per 1111 to 10 tho Ihl lower nM IH III In fact II and Its breadth 1 II If Is not tho of the th Inko with empty till the contents of or which how have been de devoured lt 11 hv h tho Iho yno YIO klI Is III not there nt lit a Il long narrow of lanil stretching Into tho Into from the water blown by tho Iho struggling prisoner Was as not the con COli contract tract between h him hlll and the wildcat lollI re 11 to writing on stone that all 1111 might wee tie And nl finally II nil II Is IA It II not a n flirt fact that to III this an III annual crowd assembled outside oUI the west westgate gate for rUI tho Iho fair that tho yno lIn lias never once emerged from hll prison This traveler visited the tie Fowls Font I olt and he ascended SO feet through the druse forest to gain IIII one of o tho holy hills hl of China where stands the beautiful l temple of Tan fon Sen entirely surrounded by b virgin forest He Il tells us 1 that this Is IH tho II residence of tho Hong Cheng Hsu or 0 controller of oe nil ni the Iho temples monks on the tho hill Ho le l punishment or In l hll nd COF can expel tho offend offending InK ing bonze from 1101 the precincts of the 11 hill lil Tho rhe olle Is now by I a II pleas pleasant IMM ant old monk of ot about CO G old who hUM lias pent nil his life on near tho hill hii and having lived through the lie Pan tho during which the tem temples tel ples went alternately and 1111 Impartially pillaged by h the followers of ut the Ih prophet and 1111 the followers of or has ban tales tI of or adventure 10 II 11 to 10 relate Twentynine temples Ile on a Il of tho Ihu hill hilI ti Ih all map 01 y are 1 ni with tha Ihl exception of or the summit situated on the south slope of or orthe the mountain and alli burled In II a II growth of lt forest but hit many 1111 nr 11 abandoned and In III ruins From 1111 Shih Tan S u II n good cm nice join leads along the mountain slope In 11 n direction to Chin Uin 1111 Hsu Or Orchid which IH nt A the foot of r the til s st pinnacle this main road a woodcutter paths In III nil al directions and pleasant hI 1 I I walks through the root depths I of the tha forest folt re the till and 1111 tho elegant 1 la be Ul lel strut UI Ing In III their wilds When the tl winter nun un of the whole hill hi wih light l ht the Ih of Ir lie forest mountain IK 11 no HO It IM I to believe that I O a I spot Ui WI conspicuous FO RO a I and FU Rf Ic must have hlf attracted the re 11 devotion of fr men from the time they thc wol pre first by h the th ion 11 ceplon lon of or the he spiritual of 01 the L i In all 11 the tl hl temples morning and celebrated but evening are or bil ID I little or no 10 knowledge of ot tho faith the The hl total num l Ic cr of IC the he ho men mel on thu tho hill hii H I about MM II th Tan fall Sau has his about 30 and IJ Yen Yell 10 40 The of l Shih Tan amount t tf of or grain year yearly ly I lands III n the neighbor heo itu It n HAi Ssu la IH also fairly well wel off rr hu lJ on 11 the whole the bonzes 1 have n on Imd III and begging or the th If pf visitor 10 nt lt the end of ot the tl the time of o the great pilgrim pilgrimage age aGe form chief means of sub suh most of ot the buildings falling Into a 1 wid tate state of disrepair |
