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Annually a Tribute Mission wended its way by land from Soul to Peking, conveying the specified tribute, ^ and receiving in return the Calendar, which it was the imperial prerogative to prepare, and the mark of vassalage to receive. In the succeeding century the tribute was gradually reduced, and the embassy appeared at times to dwindle into a ceremonial function, carrying presents in return for the permission to trade at the frontier, rather than tokens of political submission. Nevertheless, du...ring this epoch a violent disturbance took place if there was the slightest omission of prescribed deference ; and one Korean monarch was smartly fined for his omission of some punctilio. From the time of the Manchu invasion to the present day every King and Queen of Korea have received their patent of royalty from the Court at Peking ; - and the historical 1 Its ingredients are stated by Dallet (vol. I. P. 15) ; but it is long since they were scrupulously exacted. - M. Scherzer has translated into French and published in Rccucil iV Itiniraires ct de Vo>/U[/cs dans I'Asie Centralc ct rextrimc Orient (1878) the diary of the principal Chinese Envoy who was sent from Peking to invest the present Queen of Korea in 18GG.
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