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We went down through shrines and graves to the lake, and turned to the right along the motor road until we came to the stone-paved road that leads off through the the graveyards to the Gem Spring of the Dancing Fish. A curious burial custom is observed here in places. Long low houses are built resembling small garages with eight, ten or more doors. Within there are cells where coffins are placed in what seems to be a rather temporary form of permanent burial. The country through which our path, carefully trimmed though traveled only by pedestrians and chair bearers, ran, appeared to be neglected, for the graves were often quite overgrown with the luxuriant weeds and brush that are common in this part of China. Soon we found our way through trees and graves and rice paddies to the Ch'ing Lien Ssu, the temple of the Gem Spring. The temple is noteworthy for its gilded images, and for an inner hall where there are two walls filled with glass-doored cases containing eighty-four images of lesser deities. These images here are about three feet in height, and well preserved and brightly gilded. There is little artistic merit in any of the images here, though.

The main feature of the temple is the spring of the dancing fish in a court at the side. Here is a pool about the size of an ordinary swimming pool in a Y at home, full of water that appears to be the color of light green jade. It cannot be very deep, though the bottom is not distinctly visible. In the center of the pool is a small stone pagoda, and at the east end a little open garden plot and pavilion. Around three sides of the pool are galleries like porches of the temple rooms behind them. Close to the railings are set tables and chairs overlooking the pool. Within the pool are hundreds of carp, a fish of note in China, ranging in size from a few inches to several feet in length, and color from black to bright red-gold. When one sits at a table cakes, like flapjacks made of flour and water, are brought, and it is amusing to break these and throw them to the fish, who veritably dance in their efforts to get them. Little sweet cakes and dried fruits and tea are served to the people who serve the other cakes to the fish, and one can stay here indefinitely feeding the fish, watching the people, and drinking tea in the cool comfort of the