CONFUCIUS' HOME DESTROYED

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1544, 28 April 1887, Page 3

CONFUCIUS' HOME DESTROYED

A recent conflagration m a remote Chinese village destroyed the ancestral home of the family of Oonfaciua with all iti contents, texts on stone, commentaries, wondrous carvings In jade and alabaster, priceless jars of porcelain, jewels and preoious metal work, m brief one of the moßt remarkable literary and artistic museums m the world, containing act it did nearly every extant memorial of the great teaoher. In that building erected about 6CO 8.0 , generation after generation, the male heira of the Chinese philosopher have dwelt m unbroken line for 2500 years, bearing thn title of dukes. With every other family m China, a nobleman's rank must always be lower than that of hla ancestors : for no true Confucian wou?d pre■nme to stand higher than his grandfather father, or his elder brother. In the illaetrlous " Houße ©f Confucius," however che lofty title of duke passes unchanged, except when tbe Emperor adds by Royal deoree some new phase of honor to the name •nd line of the famous philosopher.

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