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Show i MARKS HOME OF CONFUCIUS I I Temple in the Town of Chufu, Shan-j Shan-j tung, Honors Memory of Great I - Chinese Philosopher. j In the little town of Chufu. in Slian-i Slian-i tung on the spot where Confucius-i Confucius-i :ived and taught his disciples, in the happy outdoor fashion of other an-?ient an-?ient philosophers, under a plum tree, :t;;nds his temple, a great pink-and-garnet pavilion bordered with blue tnd green and violet and gold, its yellow yel-low roofs, the yellow sacred to Confucius Con-fucius and royalty, resting on the handsomest dragon-carved pillars in the empire and marched along by pro-nessions pro-nessions of tiny animals whose symbolism sym-bolism only a sinologue could explain, init whose grotesque charm to western west-ern eyes goes Gothic one better. It 3'nnds on a great terrace bordered ;iy triple balustrades carved into vas-?s vas-?s of marble llowers, ascending by triple staircases emblazoned with phoenixes and more dragons, and before be-fore it stretches a vast courtyard planted with cedars and enclosed by pink walls. Pink walls, old cedars, yellow roofs'! These always to Confucius. Con-fucius. For this temple is only the pattern of Confucian temples throughout through-out all China in which incense has been burned to the sage by 73 genera-tin.s. genera-tin.s. The New Republic. |