ABSTRACT

The internal or{ranization of the Ministry of Rites is as recommended by the Ministry itself in a Memorial to the Throne, sanctioned by the Emperor on the 5th .January, 1907.

'j he:Ministry of Rites superinteuds ceremonies of the Court, sacrifices, sacrificial altars, Imperial mausolea, ancestral temples, the Office of M mic and the Buddhist, Taoist and Confucian religions.