Volume 1

The general history of China. Containing a geographical, historical, chronological, political and physical description of the empire of China, Chinese-Tartary, Corea, and Thibet. Including an exact and particular account of their customs, manners, ceremonies, religion, arts and sciences ... / Done from the French of P. Duhalde ... [by R. Brookes].

  • Du Halde, J.-B. (Jean-Baptiste), 1674-1743.
Date:
1741
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Credit: The general history of China. Containing a geographical, historical, chronological, political and physical description of the empire of China, Chinese-Tartary, Corea, and Thibet. Including an exact and particular account of their customs, manners, ceremonies, religion, arts and sciences ... / Done from the French of P. Duhalde ... [by R. Brookes]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    mily of Han, called Peu an tfe, who being defeated, went to the Emperor, threw himfelf at his Feet, and intreated his Clemency, and the Emperor granted him not only his Life, but gave him likewife a Prin¬ cipality. The Chinefe Annals fay, that in the twenty- eighth Year of the Cycle, the laft Day of the feventh Moon, there was a total Eclipfe of the Sun, which appear’d before the Time that it was foretold : I leave it to Aflronomers to examine if this Eclipfe is the fame which happen’d at the Death of Chrift. ghiang vou ti died in the fixty-firft Year of his Age, and the fifty-fourth of the Cycle, leaving ten Chil¬ dren % one of them called Ming ti fucceeded him. Ming ti, the Fifteenth Emperor, reigned eighteen Teams. T H ï S Prince is extolled by the Hiftorians for his Prudence, Clemency, and Judgment : He efta- blifh’d an Academy of Sciences in his Palace for the Benefit of young Noblemen of the Empire ; Stran¬ gers were alfo admitted into it, and he was often pre- fent there himfelf. He placed in a Hall the Pictures of the greateft Men of the Empire, He married the Daughter of one of his Generals, and declar’d her E nip refs, which Marriage was gene¬ rally applauded. The Hoang ho, or Yellow River, having o 'ten overflow’d the neighbouring Coun¬ try, the Emperor caufed a Bank to be made to pre¬ vent thefe inundations, which was ten Leagues Jong, and one hundred thoufand Men were employ’d in that Work. Cycle 41. In the fécond Year of the Cycle, dreaming that a A. D. 64. ]y[an of a Gigantick Size appear’d to him, he re- membred a Word which Confucius had often faid, that the Holy One was in the Weft, upon which he fent im¬ mediately Embaffadors to India to feek for the true Religion. Thefe