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jing xi zi zhi

(`respect and cherish written words')

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My grandfather told me that when he was a boy growing up in
Shanghai, he saw many large red boxes placed at major street
corners. Each had four gilded characters written on its surface:
jing xi zi zhi `respect and cherish written words'. Workmen with
bamboo poles patrolled the streets picking up any stray pieces of
paper with writing. The contents of these boxes were burnt at
regular intervals at a special shrine in the Temple of Confucius.
These book-burning ceremonies were solemn occasions resembling
high-mass at a Catholic cathedral, with music and incense.
Candidates who had successfully passed the Imperial Examination
were the only ones allowed to participate. They would prostrate
themselves in worship and pray to Heaven until all the paper had
been reduced to ashes. On their way out, they would further show
their respect by placing a donation into a separate red box
labeled yi zi qian jing (one written word is worth a thousand
pieces of gold).

From book author Adeline Yen Mah .

"Saving things from amnesia & oblivion."

(WJM....:))

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