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Princess Der Ling. Two Years in the Forbidden City
Two Years in the Forbidden City
Table of Contents
FOREWORD
TWO YEARS IN THE FORBIDDEN CITY
INTRODUCTORY
CHAPTER TWO—AT THE PALACE
CHAPTER THREE—A PLAY AT THE COURT
CHAPTER FOUR—A LUNCHEON WITH THE EMPRESS
CHAPTER FIVE—AN AUDIENCE WITH THE EMPRESS
CHAPTER SIX—IN ATTENDANCE ON HER MAJESTY
CHAPTER SEVEN—SOME INCIDENTS OF THE COURT
CHAPTER EIGHT—THE COURT LADIES
CHAPTER NINE—THE EMPEROR KWANG HSU
CHAPTER TEN—THE YOUNG EMPRESS
CHAPTER ELEVEN—OUR COSTUMES
CHAPTER TWELVE—THE EMPRESS AND MRS. CONGER
CHAPTER THIRTEEN—THE EMPRESS'S PORTRAIT
CHAPTER FOURTEEN—THE EMPEROR'S BIRTHDAY
CHAPTER FIFTEEN—THE MID-AUTUMN FESTIVAL
CHAPTER SIXTEEN—THE SUMMER PALACE
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN—THE AUDIENCE HALL
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN—THE NEW YEAR FESTIVALS
CHAPTER NINETEEN—THE SEA PALACE
CHAPTER TWENTY—CONCLUSION
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Princess Der Ling
Published by Good Press, 2019
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Soon after Li Lien Ying had gone, two court ladies, daughters of Prince Ching, came in and asked the eunuchs who were attending us if we could speak Chinese, which we thought a great joke. I was the first one to speak, and told them of course we could speak our own language, although we knew several others. They were very much surprised and said: "Oh! how funny, they can talk the language as well as we do." We in turn were very much surprised to find such ignorant people in the Imperial Palace and concluded that their opportunities for acquiring knowledge were very limited. Then they told us Her Majesty was waiting to receive us, and we went immediately.
After walking through three courtyards very similar to those we had previously passed through, we came to a magnificent building just one mass of exquisite carving. Large lanterns made of buffalo horns hung all over the veranda covered with red silk from which red silk tassels were hanging and from each of these tassels was suspended a beautiful piece of jade. There were two smaller buildings flanking this large one, also one mass of carvings and hung with lanterns.
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