Two Years in the Forbidden City

Two Years in the Forbidden City
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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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