PLANTS MENTIONED IN CLASSICAL WORKS. 141 
Chou li, 1, 366 :—#§ A tao jen, superintendent of the 
cultivation of rice. II, 268, 270, 273, 275 :—Rice produced 
in various parts of China. 
— Shi king, 184:—We cannot plant our rice and maize 
[v. infra, 344], how shall our parents get food? 231 [* Life 
in Pin”]:—In the tenth month they reap the rice. 
379 :—The millet, the rice and the maize will awake the joy 
of the husbandmen. 416 :—How the water from the pools 
flows away to the north, flooding the rice-fields! 622 :— 
How Tst [+. infra, 343] taught the people how to sow and 
to reap rice and other cereals. 
338.—FR fu is another ancient name for rice, met with in 
the Classics. Legos and WrirtaMs translate tw by glutinous 
rice, good for making spirits. 
as Dt: Ai, I, 460 [* Diet of the Ancient Chinese”] :—Broken 
glutinons rice (#2) with dog soup or hare soup. 1, 461:— 
Glutinous rice (#w) was thought to suit beef." 
Chow li, I, 94 [* Diet of the Son of Heaven’ } :—Le riz 
@R) convient avec le bwut. 
Shi king, 586:—Abundant is the year with much millet 
1 rice (FR). 
There is a good deal of confusion and contradiction in the 
interpretation of the characters #3 two and #R tu by the 
ancient commentators on the Classics. The Rh ya, 71, gives 
“ and tu as synonyms. Kuo P* states that, in the 
ngdom of Pei, tw is the usual name. We real in the 
cece . 
Niki, I, 46), Leaae’s translation. My remarks in brackets. 
Panicum miliaceum glutinosum, v. infra, 341] to suit: mutton ; 
lium, v. infra, 350] to suit fish, tL At hot 
The same statements are found in the Chou li, T, 94, ; 4 
_The Dillns rice LER, v. infra, 338] was thought to suit beef ; millet — 
Tutinous millet Re Panicum miliaceum non glutinosum, v. infra, 343) 
: suit. pork ; maize (ze Setaria italica, v. infra, 344] to suit dog ; wheat - 
i to suit goose; and the broad-leaved en (BK Hydropy”" ae 
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