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Internal evidence shows that when this treatise was made, 
the J li, or portions of it at least, had been recovered. After- 
wards king Hien of Hokien [v. supra], who was a patron 
of literary men, added a mass of tablets to the J li. The 
recovery of the Chou li came not long after. Someone 
brought to king Hien of Hokien the tablets of the Chou li, 
then called J] ~ Chou kuan, or Official Book of the Chou. 
The Chou li is a constitutional, not a ritnal, work. Since 
the T‘ang dynasty it has been known by its present title. 
The most distinguished of the Zi scholars in the time of - 
the Emperors Htan [72-48 B.C.] and Cu‘sne [32-6 B.C.] 
was J 3 Hou Ts‘ana, the author of the compilation called in 
the catalogue of 3 ft Liv Hin [some years before our era], 
th 3 i Aw tai ki. Two of his disciples 9% fg Tar Te and 
wi 24 Tat Suenc, cousins, were also celebrated for their 
ability. Tx, the elder of the two, commonly called —& 
Ta Tat, the Greater Tat, digested the mass of p‘%en [214] of 
the Zi books and reduced the number to 85. The younger 
Tas, jx RY Stao Tas, doing the same for his cousin’s work, 
_ reduced it to 46. This second condensation met with general 
acceptance and was styled the jg ff Li ki. 
The Li of the Greater Tat, the <¢ RY WB Ta Tai li, was a 
voluminous compilation. As the shorter work of his cousin 
obtained a wide circulation, his fell ito neglect. A portion 
of it is still current, and found in the large collection of 
: books of the Han and Wei dynasties, 39 books in 10 sections. 
It includes the fragment of the Hia dynasty [B.C. 2205-1766] 
Bob JE Hia siao ch‘eng, or Calendar of the Hia. This, an 
undoubted record of the Hia epoch, said to have been found 
in the grave of Conructus, is a very obscure document, for 
the most part completely unintelligible without the com- 
mentaries by different ancient authors. It notices, in the 
‘orm of aphoristic sentences, 122 in number, various natural 
