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INDEX OF SUBJECTS.

A.

Acupuncture ###, 10, 346.

Altar of the land ###, 100, 346.

Alternation of prosperity and decay, 11.

Altruism ### grows from opulence; strife, from indigence, 12, 140, 142.

Amber ###, takes up straws, 350, 352.

Amulets see Charms.

Ancestral worship, minister of ###, 258.

Angling ### with wooden fish, 353.

Annoyances and vexations ###. There are three annoyances and three vexations, 37 seq.

Archæologists ###, 18.

Archery ###, competition of, 355.

Arithmeticians ###, honoured by Duke Huan of Ch`i, 256.

Astrologers ###, regulated the calendar and fixed the days, 319, astrologer of Lu ###, 376.

Auguries see Omens, 315.

Auspicious grain ###, a felicitous omen, 197, 206.

Aversions and dislikes different with different people, 382.

Avoidances ###, things that must be avoided, otherwise they entail misfortune 376 seq., avoidances of inauspicious days, 393 seq.

B.

Ballista ###, of five stones, 94.

Bamboo and silk ###, i. e. tablets and scrolls used for writing, 102, 103, 223, 226, 230, 240, 302.

Beckoning to the departed to return ###, 333.

Big-bellied persons ###, are often deceitful, 41.

Bird ###, a constellation, 14.

Boletus see Purple Boletus.

Book of Prophecies ###, ascribed to Confucius, 261.

Books of the various philosophers ###, one foot long, 238.

Brilliant Star ###, 193, 315 seq.

Brocades ###, woven in Hsiang by the people, 60, their manufacture requires exceptional skill, 68.

Bureaucrats ###, 107.

Burning glasses ###, 132, 351, 412.

Burning of the Books by Ch`in Shih Huang Ti, 77, 78, 80.

C.

Calendars ###, for burials, 393, for sacrifices, 396, for bathing, 398, for building, 399, a great variety of spirits mentioned in the calendars, 401.

Calumniation ###,

different kinds of, 38-41, 50, 51, ###, 44.

Carts ###, creeping plants flying about led to their construction, 27.

Cascade ###, 325.

Cassia ###, used as medicine, 366.

Cat's-eyes ###, put into a coffin, 371.

Changes ### = Yiking, 239.

Character ###, transformed by good and evil practice, 65.

Charms ###, used to paralyse evil influences, 387.

Chi-mo ###, technical expression, 84.

Chopsticks of ivory ###, made under Chou ###, 117, not solid, 386.

Chung-ch`ang ###, a strange bird, 103, 107.

Cinnabar ###, a boy turned red eating cinnabar, 203, 204.

Clay figures ### and clay ox ###, used at the beginning of spring, 355.

Clepsydra, 84.

Cockfight ###, 2.

Coins ###, golden, 213.

Coincidences ###, 1 seq.

Colours of dynasties, 312.

Comet ###, to be averted by prayer, 153, 154, a comet proceeded from Ch`u, 169, 170, when a whale dies, a comet appears, 350.

Corporal punishments ###, abolished by Han Wên Ti, 81.

Correspondencies, A major, wood, wind, and rain, 180, 398, 416.

Corvées ### (for ###), from the twenty-third year, 83.

Crows ###, weeding the grave of Yü, 5, 246, a red crow an augury of Wu Wang, 206.

Cunning and artful ###, 43 seq.

Cutting and carving ### of bone, ivory, jade, and jewels, 71.

D.

Dead people ###,

cannot be resuscitated by sacrifices, are hidden from our view, dissolved and belonging to another sphere, 370,

the service of the dead analogous to that of the living, 396.

Death ###, premature how caused, 6, regarded as the greatest evil, 13, human life and death depend on the length of the span, 162.

Denary cycle ###, 410 seq., the corresponding spirits, 411.

Destinies ### may be connected by chances and coincidences, 2.

Devil country ###, barbarous hords in the north of China, 201.

Distillation ###, of spirits for sacrifices with fragrant grass, 167.

District cities ###, exceeding ten thousand, 246.

Divination ###, 104, by diagrams ###, eod., by tortoise shells, straws, and diagrams, 176, 287, divination for a State and an individual, 279, diviners employed in case of sickness, 372.

Divine splendour ###, a felicitous sign, 196, 197, a brilliant fluid ### shining over Han Kao Tsu, 205, supernatural glamour, 206.

Dragons ### as portents, 2, clay dragon put up at the rain sacrifice, 17, dragons found in the deepest water, 97, a dragon appeared in the suburbs of Chiang, 103, divine dragon, 112, dragon-liver a delicacy, 117, a clay dragon could attract rain, 132, two dragons in the court of Hsia from whose saliva Pao Sse was born, 163, 164, a yellow dragon carried the boat of Yü, 169, a dragon mounting a black cloud, 186, dragons in midsummer rise on clouds and rain, 187, they were domesticated under Yao and Shun, eod., a yellow dragon appeared, 197, a dragon appeared above Kao Tsu's mother, 205, 275, Yao's mother moved by a red dragon, 206, eight dragons appeared under Ming Ti, 207, 216 seq., the dragon is the animal of the eastern region, 219, Lao Tse like a dragon, 286, dragons require clouds and rain to soar to heaven, 225, the dragon has ornaments on its scales, 229, a yellow dragon appearing under Hsiao Wên Ti's reign, 291, yellow dragons under Hsiao Hsüan Ti, 307, the dragon appears in the second month, 336, the clay dragon of Tung Chung Shu, 349 seq., clouds follow the dragon, 349.

Dragon horse ###, a horse 8 feet high, 290.

Drums ###, beaten in time of high water, 339 seq.

Dummies ###, interred in Lu, 117, 373, mud carts and straw figures symbolise life, 355, dummies to serve the corpses, 369.

Duodenary cycle ###, 412 seq.

E.

Earth ###, the ruling element of the Han dynasty, 215, 217 seq., 291, its colour is yellow, its position the centre, 219, stronger than water, 340, 347.

Earth ###, governs the growing of things, 186, has many marks and lines, 230, has an inundation, 265, injuring the body of Earth, 394, the spirit of Earth disturbed by the turning up of the soil, 400.

Earthquake ###, predicted from the stars, 160, 211.

East ###, is benevolent, 219.

Eastern well ###, a solar mansion = Gemini, 206, 275.

Eclipses ###, every 42 months there is an eclipse of the sun, and every 56 months, one of the moon, 14, at an eclipse of the sun drums are beaten and animals immolated at the altars of the land, 346.

Eight degrees of nobility ### in the Han time, 83.

Eight Diagrams ###, composed by Fu Hsi, 78.

Eight Objects of Government ###, food, commodities, sacrifices, works, instruction, jurisdiction, entertainment of guests, warfare, 399.

Elementary books ###, 106.

Elephants ###, tilling the grave of Shun, 5, 246.

Embroidery ###, made in Ch`i from generation to generation, 60, extraordinary skill required for this handicraft, 68, different kinds of silk embroidery and the method of embroidering, 71.

Emperor, ruler and king ###, different degrees of sagehood, 32.

Energy of men of talent, 86 seq.

Engineer ###, 64.

Envy ### of people of exceptional abilities, 40-42.

Erh Fu ###, some strange being, 103, 107.

F.

Fa-yüeh ###, extraordinary merit, 84.

Fans ###, used in winter, 35, ###, used in summer to cause wind, 317.

Fate ###, a spontaneous principle holding sway over happiness and misfortune, 1, works spontaneously, 6, preventing grain from growing, 6, fate and Heaven allowed Confucius and Mencius to be slandered, 7, virtue has no influence upon fate, 9, 11, fate regulating the length of life is a very subtle essence, 25, wealth and honour are fate, 129, to avoid injury is chance and a propitious fate, 139, when a dynasty perishes, or a man expires, their fate is fulfilled, 162, heavenly fate, 207, its quantity, eod., fate exhausted and time out of gear, 361.

Favourites ### of emperors, liked for their beauty, 34, ###, they have a pleasant appearance, 129.

Female fluid ###, supposed to remove ulcers, 259.

Fên ###, tortoise with three legs, 321.

Fire ###, has its place in the south; the summer air corresponds to it, 407, 418, fire is the solar fluid, 412, fire injures metal, 416.

Five Canons (Classics) ###:--- Yiking, Shiking, Shuking, Liki, and Ch`un-ch`iu, 63, 76-78, 80, 82, 88, 89, 99, 104, 120, 238, 276, 284, 324.

Five classes of literature ###:---Classics and Arts, records, essays, memorials, descriptions of virtuous actions, 277.

Five Colours ###, black, red, green, white, yellow, 133, corresponding to the Five Elements, 417.

Five degrees of mourning ###:---for parents, grand parents, brothers and sisters, uncles and aunts, distant relatives, 133.

Five Elements ###, either affect or overcome each other, 189; 339, their fluids different, 340, their antagonism modified by their quantity, 343, 392; 352, employed as amulets, 387; 394, their correspondences, 398, 416, 417; 411, 413.

Five Emperors ###:---Huang Ti, Chuan Hsü, K`u, Yao, and Shun, 126, 155, 192, 197, 206, 212, 223, 225, 252.

Five Grains ### = hemp. millet, rice, wheat, and beans, 12, 14, 48, 136, 166, 230, 266, 316, 326, 365, 413.

Five Monarchs ###:---Yao, Shun, Yü, T`ang, Wên Wang, and Wu Wang, 203, 207.

Five Planets ,### 206, 323.

Five Punishments ### of the emperor Yü:---branding, cutting off the nose, cutting off the feet, castration, and execution, 81, 276.

Five presidents of the board of works ###, 212.

Five relationships ###, sovereign and subject, father and son, elder brother and jounger, husband and wife, friend and friend, 342.

Five Rulers ### = Five Emperors:---Huang Ti, Chuan Hsü, K`u, Yao, and Shun, 12.

Five Sacrifices ### of the house, the outer and inner doors, the well, the hearth, and the inner court, 416.

Five Sages ###, Yao, Shun, Yü, T`ang, and Wên Wang, 163.

Five Secretaries ###, superintending the 5 regions into which, under the Han, a circuit or prefecture was divided, 62.

Five Sounds ###, five notes of the musical scale, 133, 410, experts of the Five Sounds, 413, system of, 415, five sounds corresponding to the five elements, 416 seq.

Five Tones ###, the five musical notes = Five Sounds, 410.

Five Virtues ###:---benevolence, justice, propriety, knowledge, and truth, 104, 183, 266.

Four branches of literature ###, composition, thought, classical, and historical literature, 305.

Four kinds of savages ###, 208, 360.

Four Sacred Mountains ###, Hêng-shan, Hua-shan, Hêng-shan (in Shansi), and T`ai-shan, 244.

Four Seas ###, the border lands of China, 199, 203, 244, 263.

Four stars ###, the sun, the moon, the stars, the zodiacal signs, 319.

Fortune-telling ###, 104, there are methods for this science which is not supernatural, 124, diviners, 275.

Fountain ###, 325.

Fragrant grass ###, an auspicious plant, 167.

Funerals, simplicity of ###, 369 seq., time of funerals, 395.

G.

Ghosts ###, are believed to appear to dying persons and to kill them, 4, ghosts and spirits speak to man through the mouths of sorcerers, 126, cried at the invention of writing, 167, 184, ghosts and spirits agreed with Shên Nung, 187, ghosts of two women causing a storm, 251, worshipped as though they were men, 336, the Mêhists hold that men after death become ghosts, possess knowledge, assume a shape, and injure people, 369, ghosts and spirits call the sinners to account, 388, ghosts are the essences of dead men, 396, in reality there are no ghosts, eod., the sway of ghosts and spirits, 400.

Giants ### devour Pigmies, ###, 360.

Gilt and silvered vessels ###, 102.

God ###, the supreme being, 153, T`ang implored God, 182.

Gold and gems ###, the choicest omens, 215.

Grand Annalist ### = Sse-Ma Ch`ien, the author of the Shi-chi, 47, 48, 63, 107, 123, 143, 145, 177, 232, 279, 302, 304.

Great Diviner ###, 160.

Great Plan ### = Hung-fan, chapter of the Shuking, 29.

Great Wall ###, built by Mêng T`ien, 391.

Green Dragon ###, the eastern quadrant of Heaven, 404.

H.

Habit and its affects on arts and handicraftswork, 60.

Happiness ###, not the result of virtue, 11, happiness and misfortune not depending on goodness or badness, 15, definition of happiness and misfortune, 37, luck has its time and cannot be prayed for (###), 332, good and bad luck can be ascertained, 362, good and bad luck happen by chance, 368.

Heart ###, a constellation, 22, 152, 154, 157-160, 211, the constellation Heart corresponds to Sung, 158, the Heart becomes visible in summer; is a heavenly sign of dragons, 357. The heart is like a ball or an egg, 107, those who have a good heart speak good words, and good words are accompanied by good actions, 148, 154, a good heart alone distinguishes between right and wrong, eod., the heart of a Sage is bright, that of a Worthy well-principled, 149.

Heaven ###, its ways difficult to know, 7, Heaven and time, 11, success and discomfiture emanate from Heaven, 14, Heaven responded with rain to T`ang inculpating himself during a drought, 16, sent a thunder-storm, manifesting its anger, 18, 19, moved its terrors, to display the virtue of the duke of Chou, 21, Confucius would not impose upon Heaven, 24, Heaven took several years from Wên Wang, adding them to Wu Wang's span, 24, Heaven intimating its disapproval by thunder and rain, 28, its principle inaction, 28, destroying depraved persons by a thunderbolt, 29, Heaven does not reprimand, 29, Heaven invested the Han, 77, even Heaven may be induced to respond by tricks, 132, Heaven hears what men say, 152 seq., has a body like Earth, and does not hear man, 155, 156, Heaven and man have the same law, 157, Heaven raining grain, an ill omen, 167, distance between Heaven and man several ten thousand Li, 171, a certain sympathy between Heaven and man, 172, a storm expressive of Heaven's anger, 173, to affect Heaven a person should concentrate his mind, 173, Heaven not to be moved by the human mind, 175, Heaven raining grain, 176, 184, 185, Heaven could not help T`ang, Wên Wang, and Confucius 177, Heaven rained hoar-frost for Tsou Yen, 178, felt no sympathy for Shên Shêng and Wu Tse Hsü, 179, sent down rain at the prayer of T`ang, 182, Heaven employed God and the spirits to injure people, eod., Heaven confines itself to emitting its fluid, 186, Kuang Wu Ti received Heaven's decree, 203, Heaven helped the Han with thunder and rain, 204, Heaven's command, 210, Heaven has celestial signs, 230, Heaven rewards virtue, 252, Spirit of Heaven, eod., sends down a drought, 265, its signs, 275, 279, Heaven indignant at Ch`in's destruction of literature, 275, Heaven's decree, 287, 292, 293, its will difficult to know, eod., Heaven has endowed Confucius, 292, Heaven filled with the primogenial fluid, 303, does not pay heed to human actions, 328, either a spirit or clouds and rain, 330, its ears and eyes far away, 331, Heaven's anger, 343, to understand the mind of Heaven one starts from human thoughts, eod., the fluid of Heaven in disharmony, 348, the principle of Heaven is spontaneity, 350, 368, Heaven not following the excentricity of the year-star, 388, does not eat men, 389, laws of Heaven, 392, hard to know, 401, the spirits of Heaven, 401.

Heaven and Earth ###, their fixed periods rule over calamities, 11, the fluids of Heaven and Earth, 100, sound affecting Heaven and Earth, 180, Heaven and Earth knew Confucius to be faultless, 183, a sage displays virtue like Heaven and Earth, 183, inundations and droughts of Heaven and Earth, eod., Heaven and Earth produced the Plan and the Scroll, 184, agreed with Shên Nung, 186, the effects of virtue said to affect Heaven and Earth, 190, the nature of Heaven and Earth corresponds to the doings of birds and beasts, 247, the nature of Heaven and Earth remained the same, 250, king Hsüan serving Heaven and Earth, 264, Confucius could not talk to them, 289, Heaven and Earth honoured by the sovereign like father and mother, 339, 345, sacrifices to Heaven and Earth neglected, 342, spirits of Heaven and Earth, 387, nature of Heaven and Earth, 392, Heaven and Earth do not hurt mankind, 408.

Heavenly fluid ###, 14, produces thunder and rain, 28, it may be influenced by ordinary people, 132, 197.

Hero quelling fire ###, 83.

Hill sacrifice ###, 196, 245.

Hook star ###, 160, 211.

House ###, constellation, 160, 211, 328.

Hunchbacks ###, are full of envy, 41.

Hundred spirits ###, the various kinds of spirits, 187, 408, hundred ghosts, 352.

I.

Ice-houses ###, 317.

Incest ###, 253, ###, 254.

Indicator ###, a miraculous plant, 315 seq.

Inner appartment ### of the wealthy, filled with boxes, 96.

Inscriptions on tripods ###, 221, 223, on stone by Li Sse, 225.

Insects ###, eating grain likened to officers, 341, 363 seq., produced by the fluid of wind, 364, depend on warm and damp weather, 367.

Interpreters ###, required by savage tribes, sometimes two, 208, 209.

Intuitive knowledge ### is impossible, 120, 291 seq.

J.

Jaundice ###, 344.

Joined field system ###, 82.

Jurists ### or ###, 62, 98, ###, 81.

K.

Killing people to follow the deceased into their graves ###, 369.

Knives for erasing and pencils for writing ###, 61, 63, 70.

L.

Ladle turning southward (magnetic needle?) ###, 320.

Land tax ###, in the Han time, 82, , 83.

Learned men ###, well versed in literature, 296.

Learning ###, its superiority, 67 seq.

Library, imperial ###, 273, 276.

Literati ###, have no original ideas and resemble simple artisans, 143, despise the Han time, studying only the Classics, 198, blind and dumb, 222, literary men receive their writings from Heaven, 277.

Literature, light ###, 240.

Loadstone ###, attracts needles, 350, horse-shoe magnet, 352.

Locusts ###, measures taken against them, 341 seq., 363, 364.

Lugubrious look ###, the sign of death, 13, 158, 159.

M.

Magician see Sorcerer.

Magpies ###, know the future, 126, 322.

Mainah ###, its prophecy, 3, 162, 313, 361.

Man ###, the noblest of all the productions of Heaven and Earth owing to his knowledge, 105, 112, a tiny creature that cannot affect Heaven, 156, the great man equals Heaven and Earth in virtue, 183, man measures seven feet, eod., born from man and not from earth, 259, is to be judged by his signs, 275, cannot affect Heaven, 328, man a naked animal, 360, the first among the three hundred naked animals, 365, the six domestic animals produce their young like man, 382, the noblest of all creatures, 410.

Meatfan ###, a wonderful plant, 315 seq.

Metal ###, subdues wood, 392, connected with the west, 418.

Meteorologists ###, 275.

Meteors ###, 270.

Milfoil ###, a supernatural plant, becomes 700 years old, 108, knows auguries, 114, used for divination, 314.

Mining and metallurgy, 72.