[An Australian in China by George Ernest Morrison]@TWC D-Link bookAn Australian in China CHAPTER XVII 9/29
Kwanti, the God of War, has also a temple worthy of a god whose services to China in the past can never be forgotten.
Every Chinaman knows, that if it had not been for the personal aid of this god, General Gordon could never have succeeded in suppressing the Taiping rebellion.
In the present rebellion of the Japanese, the god appears to have maintained an attitude of strict neutrality. The City Temple is near the drill-ground.
As the Temple of a Fu city it contains the images of both Fu magistrate and Hsien magistrate, with their attendants.
In its precincts the _Kwan_ of the beggars, (the beggar king or headman), is domiciled, who eats the Emperor's rice and is officially responsible for the good conduct of the guild of beggars. In the main street there is a Memorial Temple to General Yang, who won the city back from the Mohammedans.
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