The priest replied in plain terms, "Formerly, my old lord, Chung Hang Mi Tse, possessed ten chariots, and did not feel grieved at their small number, but at the insufficiency of his righteousness. Your Lordship has a hundred war-chariots, and does not feel distressed that your justice is so imperfect, but merely regrets that your chariots do not suffice. When vessels and chariots are well equipped, the taxes must be high, and the taxes being heavy, the people defame and curse their sovereign. If he then offers sacrifices, of what use can it be to his State? These curses must also ruin the State.-One man prays for him, and the whole State curses him. One prayer cannot overcome ten thousand curses. it not quite natural that a State should perish thus? What is the guilt of the priest?"-Chung Hang Yin then felt ashamed.
The people of to-day rely on sacrifices like Chung Hang Yin. They do not improve their conduct, but multiply the prayers, do not honour their superiors, but fear the ghosts. When they die, or misfortune befalls them, they ascribe it to noxious influences, maintaining that they have not yet been regulated. When they have been regulated and offerings prepared, and misfortunes are as numerous as before, and do not cease, they make the sacrifices answerable, declaring that they have not been performed with sufficient reverence.
As regards exorcism, exorcism is of no use, and as regards sacrifices, sacrifices are of no avail. As respects wizards and priests, wizards and priests have no power, for it is plain that all depends upon man, and not on ghosts, on his virtue, and not on sacrifices.
Acupuncture 針,377.
Alternation of nature and culture, prosperity and decay, 474.
Bird, star, 118.
Births, supernatural, 318, 464. Black Tortoise, the northern quadrant of solar mansions, 106.
Amulets and charms 蘭服牙身. Blue Dragon 倉龍,the eastern
boys wear jade-stones, girls pearls, 505.
Ancestral tablet of wood, one foot two inches long, 536. Ancient characters, 448, 455. Angels, informing the Spirit of Heaven of human misdeeds, 291, a fallen
angel 斥仙,341.
Animals, are creatures like man, 280, the killing of animals is wicked, eod. Anthroposcopy and physiognomy Chap. XXIV.
Anti-alcoholic memorial, 88. Antidotes, how given, 158.
quadrant of solar mansions, 106, 534. Bronze vase of the year 669 B.C.
with inscription, 344. Burning glasses 陽遂,378. Burning of the Books by Ch'in Shih Huang Ti, 204, 447, 449, 490.
Cannibalism, in times of dearth, 170. Ceremonies originate from a want of loyalty, 100.
Chance, definition, 142, Chap. X. Chaos 溟涬濛項,252.
Antiquarians know how to de- Character and natural gifts ✈
termine the age of old swords, 345. Antiquity, overestimated by scholars and artists, 476.
Apparitions, either ghosts
shaped like men, or men behaving like ghosts, 232, 244.
Army 1, 4,000 men, divided into
Ascension to heaven by the soul, 228, of Huang Ti, 332, of Huai Nan Tse, 335.
Auspicious grain,323, 366.
Ballista, often stones, 498, pulled
with a windlass i, 503. Beauty, engendered by a magical
force, vicious and depraved, 302.
determine human intelligence and conduct, 145, Chap. XXXI, trans- formed by instruction and the in- fluence of virtue, 380, depend on the quantity of the original fluid, 381. Chin (kin), old coins, 132, 146, 365, 377, 433.
Chopsticks, of ivory considered a great luxury under the Shang dynasty, 354.
Chronicle of Y ★1⁄2¿ Yü- pen-chi, 254.
Commerce resorted to by lazy agri- culturists, 170. Contingencies, definition, 142, contingencies and chance agree or disagree with destiny, 123. Cook, in Sung, famous for butchery,
Destiny, Chap. VIII and IX, Eagles transformed into pigeons and
destiny of a State stronger than that of individuals, 137, connected with the stars, eod., natural E concomitant隨, adverse 遭,138, received at the time of conception, 139, does not agree with natural disposition, good or bad character,
eod. determines life and death, rank
and wealth, 144, not influenced by virtue or knowledge, eod., natural de- stiny according to Mencius' view, 431, destiny depends on Heaven, 526. Dipper, constellation, 275, 450. Diseases have natural causes, 528. Distance, its effect on vision, 261, 266, 274.
Earth, has a body like man, 183, size of its area, 256, does not move, 267, high in the north-west and low in the south-east, 268. Earth-quake, predicted, 112, 127. Eclipse, how caused 269 seq.,
Eight Diagrams, invented by Fu Hsi, expanded by Wen Wang, 87, 454, 474.
Elixir of life 金玉之精, made of gold and gems, drunk by Taoists, 339. their Emperors, investiture by Heaven, 132, 133.
Energy, human, doubled by fear, 498.
Divination, Chap. XIV, by Equanimity of the wise who pla-
tortoise shell and milfoil, 182, by shells and by diagrams, 526. Dragon, attracts the clouds and the rain, 279, 356, fetched by Heaven during a tempest, 285, 351, rising to heaven 293, an auspicious animal, 323, a reptile that undergoes trans- formations, 327, Chap. XXIX, lives in the water, 351, like fish and reptiles, 352, represented with a horse's head and a snake's tail, 353, mounts the clouds, and is like earth- worms and ants, eod., reptiles that can be domesticated and eaten, 354,
cidly await their fate, 145, 149. Equinoxes, vernal and autumnal , 259, 265. Exaggerations, why people are fond of them, 85. Executions are wicked, 280. Exorcism, Chap. XLIV.
Fate see Destiny, 130, becomes the mind internally and the body ex- ternally, 131, is obtained spontane- ously, not by any effort, 150, fate of long life, 313, 402.
Five Grains-hemp, millet, living on air to obtain immortality,
rice, wheat, and beans, 381, 517. 348.
Five Lakes 五湖
Tai-hu in Flying fish, 357.
Fortune-tellers I and their methods, Chap. XXIV.
Duke Huan of Ch'i, Duke Wen of Founders melting metal, 294.
Chin, Duke Hsiang of Sung, Duke Chuang of Chu, and Duke Mu of Ch'in, 74, 101. Five Mountains, sacred:-
Tai-shan, Heng-shan, Hua-shan, Heng- shan, and Sung-shan, 251. Five Organs (intestines) : the heart, the liver, the stomach, the lungs, and the kidneys, 105, 195, the necessary substratum of
the Five Virtues, 195, 381, regulat-
ing the Vital Fluid, 496.
Five Planetary Emperors 五帝,
Four classes of the disciples of Confucius 四科,376. Four Grey Beards 四皓.
cluses at the beginning of the Han epoch, 437.
Four Quadrants (Constellations)
-Blue Dragon, White Tiger,
Scarlet Bird, and Black Tortoise, 353.
Four Seas and Four Mountains
海,四山 forming the limits of
ancient China, 253.
Frogs become quails, 326, 336, 368.
Gems and pearls, made artificially by the Taoists, 378. Genii, represented with feath- ers and wings, 293, 330, so light that they can fly like wild geese, 252.
Geomancers 占射事者,531.
Ma Chien, the author of the Shi-chi, 86, 96, 111, 115, 148, 153, 167, 168, 254, 332, 345, 462, 463, 464. Great Diviner of Chi
- Yen Tse, 112, 159. Great Wall, constructed by Méng Tien, 167.
Ghosts diffuse and invisible, 191, the dead do not become ghosts and have no consciousness, eod.; a name of the passive principle, eod.; ghosts are not the essence of the dead, 192 seq.; Chap. XVIII, Green Dragon see Blue Dragon, 301. ghosts are visions of sick people, 239, 240, apparitions of the fluid of sickness, 240, seen by madmen, eod., made of the stary fluid, 241, ghosts the essence of old creatures, 241, ghosts living in men, eod., the spirits of cyclical signs, 242, crea- tures like men:-flying corpses
, crawling demons, gob- lins, devils, 243, kingdom of the Ghosts, eod., wicked ghosts, eod., ghosts appari- tions in human shape, 244, are the Yang fluid, therefore red, burning and able to abscond, 246, know what is secret, 291, devils are super- natural apparitions produced by the sun, 299, ghosts are burning poison and have a red colour, 299, ghosts and spirits more ethereal than immortals, 524, insensible of joy and anger, eod., expulsion of ghosts, 532, sick people see ghosts, 533.
Ghost of Fever, son of
Chuan Hsü, 242, 534.
God 上帝
Shang Ti, 134, 162,
203; a public spirit, who does not trouble about private grievances, 204; 223, 227, 321. 328, 355.
Halo (aureole), 173, 178. Happiness and fortune not
connected with wisdom and intelli- gence, 145, Chap. XI and XII, not given by Heaven as a reward, 156. are, in the moon, 268, con- ceives by licking the pubescence of plants, and the leveret issues from its mouth, 319. Heart, governs the members and the senses and is not governed by them 111, constellation, 118, 127, 230. Hearth
sacrifice to, 343, God
of the Hearth, 519.
Heat and cold, Chap. XXI, 寒溫,Chap. not influenced by the sovereign, 278, coinciding with joy and anger, 288. Heaven, emits its fluid every-
where, but acts spontaneously, 92, has neither mouth nor eyes, eod., its fluid is:-placid, tranquil, desireless, inactive, and unbusied E
THE, 93, its principle spontaneity, 95, and inactive, 99, does not speak nor act, 101, re- primands contrary to its nature, 102, affects things, but is not affected by
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