warrior preserved his honor and the reputation of the ladies, by keeping guard in an antechamber the livelong night with a lighted lantern; and in allusion to the untarnished name of the hero, the Chinese say to this day "Kwan Yün's lighted candle lasts until morning." As soon as Ts'ao Ts'ao believed himself strong enough, he rebelled openly against the emperor. He took Kwan Yü pris 2280 TEMPLE OF A temple of Kwan Ti exists in every village, and people consult it in many affairs of their lives. We find in Kwan Ti temples a method of divination which is highly esteemed by the illiterate classes. A great number of oracles are written on wooden slips which are attached to the divining board and marked with a special symbol for each. The same symbols are written on sticks and locked 城产 隍多 廟产 THE TOWN GOD. 2305 up in a box with a hole in one corner. The box is shaken until one stick comes out, and the oracle thus determined by the symbol of the stick is read off from the divining board. Underneath the pic |