| Show deorr in china in china floors arc often round leaf shaped or semicircular in placing thorn the builder usually avoids having one opposite another lest evil spirits find their way from the birdet into the recesses of ho building the doorways separating the courts of a garden are usually of an elaborate kind and the octagonal form Is one of the most popular religious superstition asserts iteck in chinese architecture and alio sacredness of the numerals three and altie Is shown in the arrangement 0 temple doors there is a triple gateway to each ot the halls or the imperial palace and the same order prevails at the sting tombs and the person of the emperor when he was in his le kalns home could only bo approached even by the highest after three times three prostrations prost rations the temple of heaven has a triple roof a triple marble staircase and all its mystic symbolism points cither lothree to three or its multiples |
