[305] Relig. in China, p. 22. The same is true in sacrifices to Confucius (Gray’s China, I., 87).

[306] Chow le, cited by Douglas in Confuc. and Taou., p. 82 f.

[307] Edkins’s Relig. in China, p. 27.

[308] See page [156] f., infra.

[309] “The flesh of the horse is eaten both by the Chinese and the Mongolians.” (Gray’s China, II., 174.)

[310] See C. F. Gordon Cumming’s article “A Visit to the Temple of Heaven at Peking,” in Lond. Quart. Rev., for July, 1885.

[311] See Exod. 12 : 7-10.

[312] Gray’s China, II., 271 f.

[313] Gray’s China, I., 102.

[314] See Rev. 7 : 3; 9 : 4; 13 : 16; 14 : 1; 20 : 4; 22 : 4.