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[Figure] XI Ast. ix. 5. (Transcript and poor photograph.)

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Appendix I]   CHINESE INSCRIPTIONS AND RECORDS   I04I

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should probably read ,~!   .h.

2 It was as pure as ice, as incorruptible as jade.

3 Literally, an old age of (bushy) eyebrows'.

4 This was a diagram on the back of a dragon-horse which emerged from the Yellow River. It was copied by the

Emperor Fu Hsi and made the basis of his Eight Trigrams.

See Tz`û yiian, is 45.

5 A flickering candle symbolizes the uncertainty of human

life. The t   nJ Old Song Treasury ' has the couplet:

4f *gin4gartig, Long before one approaches a hundred, one's life is like a candle in the wind.'