The religious system of China, its ancient forms, evolution, history and present aspect, manners, customs and social institutions connected therewith. Published with a subvention from the Dutch colonial government (1892)
Groot, J. J. M. de (Jan Jakob Maria), 1854-1921 · Leyden E.J. Brill · leaf 433
es will be sufficient to show thatthese commemorative structures have retained their character ofgates in every respect. Gates in China are generally roofed and in 780 THE GRAVE. many cases have a smaller second roof, and sometimes even athird, smaller than the second, which gives to the whole a… … sketch of an ordinary city-gate. The same is the case with honor-ary gates. The similarity between the two categories of buildingsis not less brought out by the fact that many of the largestand finest honorary monuments are raised upon twelve pillarsarranged in three parallel rows of four each, in…
