Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1904 — Three In Chinese. [ARTICLE]

Three In Chinese.

Religious superstition asserts itself In Chinese architecture, and the universal sacredness of the numerals three and nine is shown In the arrangement of temple doors. There is a triple gateway to each of the halls of the Imperial Palace, and the same order prevails at the Ming tombs, and the sacred person of the emperor when he was in his Pekin home could only be approached, even by the highest officials, after three times three prostrations. The Temple of Heaven has a triple roof, a triple marble staircase, and all its mystic symbolism points either to three or its multiples.