Chinese pictures : notes on photographs made in China (1900)
Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy), 1831-1904 · London ; New York : Cassell and Company · leaf 70
THE DYING COOLIE. THE MODE OF SEPULCHRETHROUGHOUTSOUTHERN CHINA. A horseshoe-shaped excavation ismade in a hillside facing south, thewhole construction being faced withstone. There is in this mode of ar-ranging graves a similarity to thatadopted by the Etruscans. … THE MODE OF SEPULCHRETHROUGHOUTSOUTHERN CHINA. COFFINS KEPTABOVE GROUND. So careful is the Chinaman about hisburial, that the date and place of afuneral is not fixed until the geomancershave decided as to both. Sometimesthe coffins with their inmates remainabove ground for months, and evenyears,…
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