ABSTRACT
Dotting the hills and valleys in the neighbourhood of every great city, and crowning the summits of every noted mountain in the flowery kingdom, one finds Buddhist or Taoist temples. These temples are the resorts of thousands of dwellers in the busy marts during the hot summer months, or the goal of tens of thousands of pilgrims in the budding and blossoming days of spring. And to the temples, the people who can afford it go from the narrow streets and crowded cities in the balmy days of spring or the hot months of summer. Perhaps no summer resort is more famous than the Summer Palace of the Manchu imperial family on the edge of the foot hills, fifteen miles west of Peking. Many times author have passed through it, floated upon the bosom of its lake, crossed its camel backed or its beautiful seventeen arched bridge, wandered among the beautiful bowers of its islands.
