Notes
1
Famous Emperor of the T‘ang dynasty in China; lived a.d. 685–762.
2
The child of an Emperor could not be shown to him for several weeks after its birth.
3
I.e. be made Heir Apparent.
4
She herself was of course carried in a litter.
5
A poem by the Chinese writer Po Chü-i about the death of Yang Kuei-fei, favourite of the Emperor Ming Huang. See Giles, Chinese Literature, p. 169.