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Title: Lion and dragon in northern China
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Johnston, Reginald Fleming, Sir, 1874-1938
Subjects: Weihaiwei
Publisher: New York, E. P. Dutton and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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his image.A peasant-woman was in the habit of cutting fire-wood from the shrubs on the slopes of Ku Shanand one day she noticed a particularly thick andwell-grown shrub which she immediately proceededto cut down, leaving nothing in the ground but theroots. Next day she happened to pass that wayagain, and to her amazement found another shrub,equally thick and well grown, in precisely the samespot. Her surprise was great, but seeing no reasonwhy she should neglect to avail herself of her goodluck she treated the second shrub exactly as shehad treated the first, and took it home. On the thirdday the same thing happened again. The womanpossessed herself of the shrub as before, but havingdone so she could no longer keep the knowledge ofthese strange occurrences to herself and decided to lether neighbours into the secret. Next day a large number of her incredulous fellow-villagers accompanied her to the spot she indicated,and there, sure enough, a lordly shrub had once more 1 See p. 381. «
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A WONDERFUL BUDDHA 401 made its miraculous appearance. The wise man ofthe party explained that the locality was obviouslyhaunted by a powerful spirit, and suggested theadvisability of digging up the ground to see whatmight be underneath. This was accordingly done,and immediately below the roots of the shrub wasdiscovered a colossal stone image of SakyamuniBuddha. The village councillors then held a meetingto discuss the prodigy, and it was unanimouslyresolved, firstly, that the image had not been carvedby the hands of man, and, secondly, that a suitableresting-place must be found for it as soon as possiblein a well-conducted Buddhist temple. The templefinally decided on was the Huang Ko Ssu—a lonelybuilding which still exists on a hillside overlookingthe village of Fang Chi. Ropes and trestles wereobtained, and dozens of willing hands volunteered tocarry the sacred image to the temple selected: but theimage would not move. A reinforcement of bearerswas summoned, yet though they pull

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