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MuiiiDEH's Sacred tombs
Who-:.- ■;;-_.■ M&imclhuuis E^ir^ Their Dead
One of the lmpcrul Tomb«
IX the £m tad hazy p^st the
U v ":■: t:-'< descended Br m
Eastaesses in the • . . _•-
L ■ - RTrite II ■- . ■
tof Cor j. To be in position to
overran •.■:•—.• ■ . • ■. :'.. Liao Ri -
::. ■ Sontben tfai i their chiefs
::... • •- agboli at Liao Yang
>'. "" ■- ."" r .•■■■;. a ■ Uokden and i ad<
•:.• After .i boj< mm of •■ ■ gen
cati • Lnrms rhidi all Uai trial the i nth and
tsi . . igated. they advanced farther along th<j
■•■ - - I ■ " ■ Liao-Ttmg I Shai
k an. Ther I • Gr ii ''" ... E China an^i the □ v -
Ca is of i ... ■ - p ' lescend to the sea. making aa
ea v :■ •• nded
ictori as advance era topped
: r ■ .- '. " n lasi Mi::;; En •■ • - ■ i';:.
T ■ ■ ■ • : • - • Mukden 1 Shu .- -Iraai
is '.'.-' ■ . ■ --. mark::-.;:
tht'.- ::::• I U3 " b and I Or -• '.'.'■ ■•• — : i iliza.
' 'ti a . - ■ ' ntical route for its telegraph
l:r.< " . " ' ■
i • •_- •■• ■ ■ • ■ ■ ■• ranee at Shan
h~i>kuar.. and I 1 | sess the Entile
i ■ :'• - "■■-'.■ as I to capture IVkinp. they
- i a wide ■:■ I — ' the* i rth and west
■ - j U ng iia. and successfully forced the
Wall, pa ag throug in atau
• • .-. ■ • : the Iling Capital
Wh;! i taiy operations «pete
place in the ■nest, treachery and a love intrigue
cauM-'i the downfall and surrender of Shan-faai-
Icnan by its Chi • mxnander.
Oa x ■ ■ the news ■ • ■ . ■ reverses, and
knowing dial tb 6er c If^nrhn warriors were
pearly ai the gate of his imjierial capital, the
last Minx BmpffT book his own Hfr By this
act he terminated bis dynasty, and aO opposi
tion to the llaacha Luva&kwj "mrd By I'm.
•.••ars later Manchu Bnpremacy was estab
* lished ihronfjboiit all China, and their king, hav
ing BMonnfr-i ■'.:< I)ra^"n throne and taking the
■ . ■ of Tang [banded the great Tsing Dynasty ,
which rules China b • t hi- lay
The great veneration m which every follower
at tfas tt-ai h:n^- ai Coufocius holds : ■ • try
(the Manchu Dyi i tj baying embraced this
p ■ • . Mth the fact that at Mukden
buried two generations of ancestors of the
new ... CTiinfßT Dynasty, caused this
..: ■ . 'imc a jx.-cuhar sanctity. Xv
tb M-ir.t h-j Dynasty. It was not only the
■ of their £reatness. also the tjurial
: their venerated dead. Chir.t-sj- art and
■ • i cure were drawn upon to build op and
... • great tombs, with a magnificence fitting
tb entiment attached to the spot. The two
Una ' • ■ .ea are atuated on elevated
Be to the east and the other to the
•.'. ■ n of the city of Ifukden. in beautiful groves
■ . . ...;•. rgn ■ n trees, fenced in
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SUNDAY MAGAZINE fcr JUNE 5. 1904
Column Ne«r Tombs' Entrance
By Capttaijm A, E» Piorl&owsl&i
lmpt'n.il Germun Army, R.«Mir«rd. and
Artillery Corps. United Staler Army
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pitched i
ir construct
Gate to the MuKdi-n Tombs
Entrancr to the Grove of Tombs
imitation ■■ stout.- of more ancient
wood construction. Watch-dogs
v - : ii! stone "ii high pedes
tals are placed "n each side oi
gate. Each entrance always o osisi (a large gate
m the renter, with .1 smaller one ><n each suit.-.
that ■ • ■■ • • rei ny the pers nages oi
hiLrh degree enter the central gate, while those ol
lesser rank and the escorts most I* content with
tiie smaller i ■!!<■>.
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tly to the
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y feet ii
within the mound, is the dust
■ Manchu i I three hu
Lea ■ scenes with their raemoi
and dcs« • i
\\ i se< Mukden lying aboui
. . it « a!!<-il -• '. .
rounding and about a mile distant from an inner
Eai h : •■• to walls is pierced by two
md ■ ,i« i: gate and ■
■ ounted by roofed, Hanking tow
er Oppositi 'he center ■>f the outside
■ If, and distani I
from aboul .1 mile, is a I da, with v,
.': made of brick I rmerly
•i which is built :i huge solid brick
cupola, i oated with cemeni not unlike the dome
i .f a 'i Surmounting this
J en
bronze bands, and 'ending in .i
■ green « ii
: tnd eight feet high Hang
in this ornameni are many small bells
in the bn i
i >: ■ .t, h side ol the pedestal arc three |
th< oui having large lions in lov
while the central pane] shows Lamitii symbols.
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