Ancestral tablets carried in war-Shrines graduated according to
rank--Description of shrines--Specific case of the King of Ts'u--
Instance of the First August Emperor much later--Temple of Heaven,
Peking, and the British occupation of it--Modern Japanese instance
of reporting to Heaven and ancestors--Tsin and Ts'i instances of
it--Sacrificial tablets--Writing materials--Lu's special spiritual
status--Desecration of tombs and flogging of corpses--Destruction
of ancestral temples--Imperial presents of sacrificial meat--
Fasting and purification--Intricate mourning rules. So-65

CHAPTER XIII

_ANCIENT DOCUMENTS FOUND_

History of Tsin and the Bamboo Annals discovered after 600 years'
burial--Confirmatory of Confucius' history--Obsolete and modern
script--Ancient calendars--Their evidence in rendering dates
precise--The Ts'in calendar imposed on China--Rise of the Ts'in
power--Position as Protector--Vast Tartar annexations by Ts'in--
Duke Muh of Ts'in and Emperor Muh of China--Posthumous names--
Discovery of ancient books--Supposed travels of Emperor Muh to
Tartary--Possibility of the Duke Muh having made the journeys--
Ts'in and Tsin force Tartars to migrate--Surreptitious vassal
"emperors"--Instances of Annam and Japan--Tsin against Ts'in and
Ts'u after Second Protector's death--Ts'i never again Protector--
Ts'in's Chinese and Tartar advisers--Foundations for Ts'in's
future empire.

CHAPTER XIV