CHINESE EMPEROR MARRIES

Evening Star, Issue 18141, 4 December 1922, Page 6

CHINESE EMPEROR MARRIES

Press Aswciation—By Telegraph-Copyright

PEKING', December 1. Emperor Huang Tung and Princess Kuo Cliiw Si wore married to-day. A later message states: Seated on the dragon bed in the palace of the Forbidden City early this morning, tho seventeen-year-old Emperor and the fifteen-year-old bride exchanged golden cups, solemnising their marriage. Tho simple ceremony was preceded by an elaborate ritual. The feasting will continue for a week. Before dawn the -long procession took tho bride from her father’s house to the ’ palace, thousands of people lining the streets. Two thousand mandarins and foreign guests witnessed tho ceremony. The Empress entered the palace never to leave again unless the monarchy is restored.— A. and N.Z. Cable.

[Tho Chinese Imperial Family was of Manchu origin, dating from 1644, and was styled- Ta Oh’ing Ch’ao (“ Great Pure Dynasty ”). The last Emperor, P'u-yi, was the tenth of the lino; but the official genealogy is carried back six generations earlier than tho real founder, and P’i-yi will bo tho sixteenth name in the canonised series of Ta Oh’ing emperors. He was bom on February 11, 1906, succeeded his uncle the Emperor Kuang-Hsii on November 14, 1908, and abdicated on February 12, 1912. He retains the title of Emperor of the Maudra Imperial House; but with his dcatli tho title and the Government subsidy of the house will cease.]