a -BOTANICON sINICUM. 
character shu, follows Commentator A. (CHENG Sz‘-NUN@), 
who explains it by jp SE red sv. Be 
A yariety of Setaria italica with -red glutinous seeds is 
cultivated in the neighbourhood of Peking under the name 
RL FA BEF hung wien ku tsz (ved glutinous Seturia). 
(Compare the drawing in the Phon zo, XLI, 11, 12, 
Panicum ?). 
849.—The use of intoxicating beverages prepared from the 
grains of cereals was well known to the Chinese in the 
- classical period. The characters #¥ ts/u, nowadays a general 
name for spirits, wine, beer and other drinks, and # tsu/, to : 
| be drank, are repeatedly met with in the odes of the Shi king 
- and also in the other Classics. : 
Shi king, 395 :—Ode against drunkenness. 399 :—When — 
they have drank too much they become insensible of their 
errors. With their caps on one side and like to fall off, the, 
keep daneing and will not stop. ie 
: | behing 399 — Rook X: is entitled {5 % [the Announce- : 
 . Anent about Drunkenness] aseribed to the Duke of Chow a 
[12th century B.C.) The debauchery of Kee was the chief 
ce cause of the downfall of the Hia dynasty. The Duke 
: = : said <—When Heayen was sending down its favouring decree, 
oe and laying the foindation of the eminence of our 
spirits (7) were used only in the great sacrifices. « - 
The ruin of states may also be traced invariably to their 
crime in the abuse of spirits. ; 
The invention of wine or spirits in China is generall, 
3 aseribed to a certain % $k L v1, who lived in the time of the 
— Emperor Yé. [See regarding this legend Mayers’ Chinese 
Reader's Manual, 230. ] According to others the inventor of 
Wine was $f Tu K‘ane [see P., XXV, 31]. Ks 
es _ Lace translates the character 3G tsiv in the Classics 
.  Tiquor or distilled spirits, and states that it always denotes 
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