PLANTS MENTIONED IN CLASSICAL WORKS. 149 
Brot, Chou li, 1, 94 :—Le petit millet (¢s’) convient avec le 
pore. IJd., I, 26, Bror identifies the ts? erroneously with 
Holeus sorghum. 
Regarding other passages in the Chou li and the Shi king, 
where tsi occurs with shu, see the latter [341]. The shu 
and the tsi are frequently mentioned in the Shaw king. 
The character # ¢sz‘.of the Classics is given in the Rh ya 
[27] as a synonym of #§ ts’. 
In the Zi ki (I, 117] we read :—According to the rules for 
sacrifices in the ancestral temple, the sacrificial millet (#8) 
is called A 4 ming tsz‘, the bright grain. 
— Chou li, 1, 445 :—Le sous-supérieur des eérémonies sacrées — 
distingue le nom et la coulenr des six sortes de grains 
consacrés, AQ FF liv tszt, ainsi que leur usage special. 
Commentaire B. [Crmxa Hitan]:— se‘ est ici pour 3 
— hom générique des six grains [v. supra, 335]. 
: The character # appears in the Shu king [286]. Lace :— 
; A kind of millet. Menctus [142] says :—It is said in the 
: Li (Book of Rites) : a prince ploughs himself and is assisted 
by the people to supply the millet of sacrifice fe BR. 
The same character sz‘ is met with in the Tso chuan 
(48, 49]. The commentary explains it by # #e- 
s Leear [Shi king, 110] says that the character #E tsi 
Bad the same as #8. It is not found in the Classics, but 
it was in use several centuries B.C., as appears from the 
: quotations in K.D, The Shuo wen identifies it with iz 
a which, as we have seen, is a popular name for the 
Ue 
344.— Another important millet, most extensively ‘grown 
all over the Chinese Empire, especially in the Northern 
#E Liang, is also frequently mentioned in 
It is the Setaria italica, Kth., ea 
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