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 (1887) (14597328179)

Identifier: dragonimagedemon1887dubo (find matches)

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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Mountains, Islands, and Festivals. 281 followers with red girdles, men dragging chains, littlechildren carried on a mans head (Cupids), and, most con-spicuous, six or eight fat butchers, who, with open breasts,act as the executioners (of Hades), and go panting by ;then comes the god in open chair and embroidered robes.Heathenism Fascinating When the procession

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Temple Theatre. returns at night with lanterns lit, gongs beating, therunners whooping, the idol looking majestic, and thepeople bowing, one appreciates the magnetism of a crowd,and understands how a pageant may impress, and paste-board and tinsel captivate. Theatricals.—Paganism is an amalgam of the Church 282 The Dragon, Image, and De77ion. and the world ; the theatre is one of its forms of worship,and then the stage actors are the priests. The templeshave a stage opposite the sacred shrine, and the picturerepresents the biennial festival. If men love to go to thetheatre, why not the gods ? In the farm villages twice ayear, at the religious theatricals, thousands assemble inthe open grounds, hucksters and pedlars surround theassembly, the idol is brought out in state, and the sceneis a Vanity Fair. The play days are fixed, so thepeople go from hamlet to hamlet to attend the shows.In home lands, those who find more delight in thetheatre than in the church, are they Christians or ar

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