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7 M J[@ , who drowned himself in the Poh-lo river in Hu-nan province, and whose 

 death is commemorated every year on the fifth day of the fifth month (the Festival 

 of the Dragon Boats, cf above, p. 68, note 4, and below, this Chapter, § 10). 



8 Sft 1^' "Dissipation of Sorrows''; Ch^u ts^ze, ^ ^, Ch. I. Cf. Legge, The 

 Li Sao poem and its author, Joui-nal of the Royal Asiatic Society, January, July and 

 October 1895. 



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From the ancient Taoist treatise designated by the name of 

 Wen tsze^ we learn the following. "As to him who accumulates 

 the virtue of the Tao, phoenixes fly in his court-yard, hH-lin 

 roam about in his suburbs, and Mao-lung house in his pond". 

 Further, we read there: "On the highest tops of the mountains 

 clouds and rain arise, and in the deepest depths of the water 

 hiao-lung are born" '^ 



Kwan tsz^^ says: "The Mao-lung is the god of the water 

 animals. If he rides on the water, his soul is in full vigour, but 

 when he loses water (if he is deprived of it), his soul declines. 

 Therefore I (or they) say: 'If a Mao-lung gets water, his soul 

 can be in full vigour' ". The same philosopher states that "when 

 people drain marshes and catch fish, the Mao-lung do not dwell 

 in those pools" ". 



Also Hwai nan tsze^ mentions the Mao-lung with the following 

 words: "The Mao-lung lie hidden and sleep in pools, and yet , 

 their eggs break up (i. e. the young ones come out of them) on v 

 the hills". The comimentator remarks: "The Mao-lung lay their 

 eggs on hills and hide in pools. Their eggs get life spontaneously" ^. 



K'tJH Yuen ', the famous nobleman and poet of Ts^u, who was 

 banished by king Hwai towards the end of the fourth century 

 B. C. and about 299 B. C. composed his celebrated poem entitled 

 Li Sao^, in the ninth section of this poem describes his journey 

 to the mysterious KVan-lun mountains in the West, in a car 



