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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: see the arrival of the priests, and the burning of the paper
houses, goods, chattels, and images on the great street. I want
you to understand all our customs, and this is the greatest and
most interesting day of the funeral ceremonies."
I urged that I ought not to intrude myself upon them at this
time.
"No, no," she said, "you must not say that. It is not intrusion;
you must stay and dine with us this evening."
When I still insisted upon going she said that if I went they
would feel that I did not care for them, and she was so
persistent that I consented to remain if the maid might be sent
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