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Unauthenticated Download Date | 10/1/17 7:36 AM Reaching Zhaoling on My Travels 345 Cold and dreary is Datong Palace, desolate is the White Beast Gate.
1 The people in the capital gaze for the Kingfisher Glory,2 136 auspicious vapors head toward the gilded palace turrets.
Truly divinity hangs about the imperial tombs, rites of sweeping and sprinkling will not be omitted.
Glorious is the legacy of Taizong?
140 what he established is exceedingly vast and enduring. 5. 28 Reaching Zhaoling on My Travels3 Olden ways were worn down by undistinguished rulers, a host of heroes called the Lone Man to account. 4 Prophecies pointed to one of dragon and phoenix nature,5 4 his might settled the capital with its tigers and jackals. 6 His blood relations revered the ? Canon of Yao,? 7 in divine achievement he assisted in ? The Plan of Yu. ? 8 Wind and clouds followed the fleetest feet,9 8 sun and moon continued on the high streets of Heaven. In cultural matters he often followed antiquity,10 half of his court were old Confucian scholars. 1 Datong Palace was a hall in the Tang palace compound of Chang? an. White Beast Hall is properly White Tiger Hall, renamed because of the taboo on Tang Taizu? s name. This was a hall (and gate) in the Han palace; Han palace names were liberally transferred to places in the Tang palace.
140 what he established is exceedingly vast and enduring. 5. 28 Reaching Zhaoling on My Travels3 Olden ways were worn down by undistinguished rulers, a host of heroes called the Lone Man to account. 4 Prophecies pointed to one of dragon and phoenix nature,5 4 his might settled the capital with its tigers and jackals. 6 His blood relations revered the ? Canon of Yao,? 7 in divine achievement he assisted in ? The Plan of Yu. ? 8 Wind and clouds followed the fleetest feet,9 8 sun and moon continued on the high streets of Heaven. In cultural matters he often followed antiquity,10 half of his court were old Confucian scholars. 1 Datong Palace was a hall in the Tang palace compound of Chang? an. White Beast Hall is properly White Tiger Hall, renamed because of the taboo on Tang Taizu? s name. This was a hall (and gate) in the Han palace; Han palace names were liberally transferred to places in the Tang palace.
