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Kouan-Yu
The Soul of the Great Bellby Lafcadio Hearn
Ko-Ngai
Yong-Lo
Kouan-Yu, I want you to make a bell of such size that the sound thereof might be heard for a hundred li.
Nearly five hundred years ago the Celestially August, theSon of Heaven, Yong-Lo, of the “Illustrious,” or Ming, dynasty, commanded the worthy official Kouan-Yu to make a bell.
The voice of the bell should be strengthened with brass, deepened with gold and sweetened with silver; That the face and the lips of it should be engraved with the blessed sayings from the sacred books. It should be put in the center of the Imperial Capitol, to sound through all the many colored streets of the City of Peking.
My Lord, we can make a bell as enormous as what you imagine but we cannot combine gold, brass and silver!
Very well, I am expecting that you will be finishing this bell as soon as possible.
Are you defying my orders?
No your Majesty!
With the emperor’s command, Kouan-Yu assembled the master molders, the famous bell smith of the empire and all the men who were experts in foundry work.
Our emperor commands us to make a huge bell made up of gold, brass and silver. Its lips should also be engraved with holy sayings from the sacred book. We shall start now.
They work in the foundry day and night.

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