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 436
a House. No less than their form, do the places on which honorary gatesare erected evince their ancient character of gates of mansions LOCATION OF HONORARY GATES. 783 and villages. In the first place, they often stand riglit in frontof the dwellings of the persons whose conducl they are to… … Honorary Gates on the Highroad near a Town. to some ancestral temples. In towns and large villages they gener-ally stand conspicuously across the streets, compelling the pedes-trian to pass between the pillars (see Plate XVII), thus by theirlocation perfectly corresponding with certain gates ^ that…
