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,4onsistiDg_of ^niDe times nine. Nine is Yang . The carp's 36 scales 

 fornriTnumlVer cnna jstinp ^ of si x times six'TSix is Yin' '\ — 



In the Yang kuh inan luh^ we read: "The dragon has five 

 fingers". 



Finally, the Pen-ts^ao hang-muh"- teaches us that "a dragon has 

 whiskers at the sides of his mouth and a bright pearl under his 

 chin ; under his throat he has scales lying in a reversed direction ; 

 upon his head he has a broad eminence called in writing diih 

 muh; if a dragon has no chHh muh, he cannot ascend to the sky. 

 His breath turns into clouds, and then can change into water 



and into fire (rain and lightning)" "The S/iiJi tien says: 



'When dragons copulate they change into two small snakes' ". 



§ 5. Male and female dragons. 

 ThPi - fliffprPTipp hpiMif P(^r\_rna\p^r>i\ female dragons is rlpsprihpH 



as follows: "The male dr agoJs~ _horn._is_a Tirln1ating. concave, y 

 ste ep; it is str ong' at the top, but becomes very thin below. 

 T he female dragon has a straight nos e, a jound, mane^i^in scales 

 and a s trong tail" ^ 



The Sking i ki* relates of a painter, who was very skilled in 

 painting dragons, but whose work one day was critisized by a 

 man and a woman. They said that he did not distinguish male 

 from female dragons, although they were different in reality. 

 When he got angry and asked them how they knew this, they 



1 q§ #■ y^ ^. Sect. f|, quoted in the T. S, Sect. -^ ^, Ch. 127, f| 



2 Ch. 43, ^ :^ — , f|, p. la: p ^ 7^ ^ ^ ^ M T ^ 55 



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3 Kwang poh wuh chi, ^ |^ i^ ^ > ^" "Enlarged Poh whu chi" of later 

 times (1607), by Tung Sze-chang, fj ^ 5^ (Cf- Wylie, p. 187). The Poh wuh chi 

 itself is a work of Chang Hwa, ^ ^, who lived in the fourth century, at the time 

 of the Tsin dynasty (A. D. 265 — 420). This passage is quoted in the Wakan sansai 

 .ue, Ch. XLV, p. 674: M ^ ^ "^ t% \^ ^^ ± ^T ^ ^ ^ M 



4 ^ M f 2 , written by Chang Kiun-fang, gg ^ ^ , in the Sung dynasty 

 (960—1280)? 



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