L. Newton Hayes, The Chinese Dragon
The dragon colonnade at Chufu
The frontispiece shows a portico whose columns are carved with dragons in deep relief. Hayes locates it at the Confucian temple at Chufu. His caption describes ten monolithic marble pillars and connects the temple with the places associated with Confucius’s birth and burial. The photograph makes the dragons part of the architecture through which a visitor approaches the shrine.
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The portico at Chufu
DocumentedHayes identifies the pictured portico as the dragon colonnade of the Confucian temple at Chufu.
Dragons as architecture
InterpretationRepeated carved columns turn a single dragon motif into an architectural procession.
Context & interpretation
The illustration and accompanying passage on the cited page of The Chinese Dragon.
Original passages
Source 1
The Chinese Dragon
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Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: Illustration and accompanying passage
Quotation and accompanying passage individually checked against the exact original page image. Line breaks and line-end hyphenation normalised. Caption small capitals normalised to title case.
- Edition
- IMJ-0474-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0474-E001-P0004
- Original scan leaf
- 8
- Recorded leaf number
- 8
- Current Reader position
- 3
- Reader verification
- Matches the reviewed Reader
