Papers read at the Royal Institute of British Architects (1853)
Royal Institute of British Architects · London, Royal Institute of British Architects · leaf 216
s of degrading an individual is to throw down the tablet of his ancestor, if he should have had one erected to his honour. TUMULI. In the vicinity of cities in the northern provinces of China, there are always to be found a number of tumuli or mounds of earth, generally about five or six feet in… … Tablet. Grave Mounds. ,orm of mound bears some resemblance to the tombs of the more southern Chinese, who do not , , |. _t pi'i mounds like the northern people. The tombs of the Cantonese, for instance, are constructed with a large amount of ma- sonry, and have a peculiar horse-shoe form, showing…
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