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smaller than small, bigger_tlianbigjhighertl^^ 

 than low. Jlherefore- iiec,Qx^iQg^^ Toi}ie~~Ty[ _kmgj Kien (^£, the 

 ~Hrst~diagram) by meansofJJie--di?agcai-j:uil£a-Ji^|Ven, and Kvfun 

 (Jr^) by meansofThe horse rules the Earth; the dragon is a 

 heavenly kind of being, the horse an earthly one". 



Li Tao-yuen ', in his commentary on the Shui king, states that 

 the expression 'fishes and dragons consider the autumn days as 

 night' means that "at the autumnal equinoctium the dragons 

 descend and then hibernate and sleep in pools". 



The ''Wi ya yih ^ quotes the following passage from a work of 

 Wang Fu ' : ^Whftn ra,in is to be e x£ected,_tha drag ons scrftarn 

 and their_voices are like the sound mad£LJiy_.sJriking_copp_er 

 basins. Their salivaT^an produce all kinds of-p^rf ume. Their 

 breaih-ijec^raes clouds, and j]n the nthpr ha,nd tJiex_ay ail them- 

 selves of the clouds in order to cover their bodies. Therefore 

 they jire invisible. At the piresent day on rivers and lakesjiiere 

 are sometimesjp eople who see^'onFcTaw and tJ5F tail (oTa^dragon) , 

 but "the head TsLnotto be seSnTTn summer, after thefourth 



monyij_thfi_dragons_ divide the fegions-atHtmggtrthemseTves and 



_each__o_f them has ^hisT tem toryTThis ^ isTEe^ea-s trtT^w^^^J^'E^^ 



a distance of ^ couple of -acres—tbeare-Titay-., be quTEeclifferent 



■svmther^ rain and a— clear^ sky. Further, there are often heavy 



4 M ^ 7C ' '"'^° ^'^'^"^ under the Northern Wei dynasty (A. D. 386—536), quoted 

 in the PH ya, Ch. I, „r 1 (f g ), P- 2a: ^ f H^ ^ ^ :^ ^ ^ f | 



2 Sect. ^ ^|, quoted in the T. S., Sect. ^ 0, Ch. 427, f| ^ ^ ^, 



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3 ^ ^ , who lived at the time of the Hah dynasty. He is the author of the 

 r/i'en fu lun, 'i® ^ ^ ; but this passage is apparently quoted from another of 



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