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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Court Life in China by Isaac Taylor Headland: VIII
KUANG HSU--HIS SELF-DEVELOPMENT
On the night that the son of the Empress Dowager "ascended upon
the dragon to be a guest on high," two sedan chairs were borne
out of the west gate of the Forbidden City, through the Imperial
City, and into the western part of the Tartar City, in one of
which sat the senior Empress and in the other the Empress-mother.
The streets were dimly lighted, but the chairs, each carried by
four bearers, were preceded and followed by outriders bearing
large silk lanterns in which were tallow-candles, while a heavy
cart with relays of bearers brought up the rear. The errand upon
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