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deprived of company like an orphan, a widower, a bachelor, or a lonely 

 fellow without kith or kin. 1 A girdle-ornament of this design was 

 perhaps a gift for a man in this condition. 



Fig. i34- 

 Jade Girdle- Pendant, Winding Dragon (from Ku yti t'u p'u). 



The dragon shown in Fig. 134 is styled a p'an kHu (Giles No. 2346) 

 "a winding young dragon without horns." Its stripes must be under- 

 stood, as explained in the text, from the natural red veins in the white 

 jade which look like tiger or panther stripes and were skilfully used by 



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Fig. 135. 

 Jade Girdle-Pendant, Tiger (from Ku yti t'u p'u). 



the artist in carving. The editors insist on this piece being a work of 

 the time of the Six Dynasties (leu ch'ao), i. e. from about the third to 

 the sixth century. 



1 In this sense, it is mentioned as early as in the Shu king. In one poem of the 

 Shi king, No. 9 of the songs of the country of Ts'i, Wen Kiang, the widow of Prince 

 Huan of Lu, is censured for returning several times into her native country of Ts'i 

 where she entertained an incestuous intercourse with her own brother, the prince 

 Siang. The poet compares her to the fish kuan who is restless and sleepless at night 

 for lack of a bed-fellow (see Legge, Shi king, Vol. I, p. 159, and Vol. II, p. 293). 



