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in the form of a phoenix, drawn by a team of four ¥iu ( 

 In the thirteenth section, when proceeding along the Red river, 

 he says: "I motioned with my hand to the kiao-lung to bridge 

 over the ford". ^ At that time his car was drawn by "flying 

 dragons". ' 



The Ta tai li ki^ instructs us that the kiao-lung is considered 

 si to be the head of the 360 scaly animals,- and that " if water 

 accumiTlates and becomes a river, the kiao-lung is born". '^ 



The Poll wuh chi " says : " If a man has eaten swallows [comp. 

 V' this chapter, § 3, p. 68], he must not enter the water; (for if 

 he does so), he will be swallowed by a kiao-lung'". 



In the above texts, except in those of the Shan hai king, the 

 words kiao and lung are combined to one term. The Shan hai 

 king, however, speaks of the kiao only, and so ,do a large number 

 of other works, which distinguish the kiao from the lung. Neither 

 in the Shan hai king, nor in the Li ki\ which says: "(In the 

 last month of summer) the inspector of fishing is ordered to kill 

 the kiao"", these water animals are mentioned as divine creatures. 

 The commentator of the former Work, Kwoh P^oh S however, 

 J states the following: "The kiao resembles a snake. It has four 

 legs,, and is akin to the lung'\ ° As we have seen above '", the 

 Shuh i ki remarks that a water snake (shui-yuen) , when five 

 hundred years old, changes into a kiao, and a kiao a-fter a thousand 

 years becomes a lung. 



^ im s c ii^i ffe M"^ o ^^^^^' '•'•' pp- ^^^' ^^^' "'*"'='' *'• 



2 ^ !b$t f I Jtii ^ if^ ^ -» Legge, I.I., pp. 846, 863, stanza 89. 



3 lis :^ ^ ^ ^i ^ o Legge, ibidem, stanza 86. 



* j^MJii. IE (l^t <=«"'• B- C), Ch. XIII, nr 81, ^ 2fs: ^ , P 7b : >^ ^ 



5 Ch. VII, nr 64, f/ .^, P- 7a: ^ ;![C ^ j|| ,^M^Mo 



6 4S ^^rt ^^ , a little work written by Chang Hwa, HM ^£ , a Minister of 

 State, who lived in the fourth century (cf. above, p. 71 , note 3) : A -^ jSfc 1^ 



7 Sect. ^ ^, Book IV, Ch. IV, r^r 8: {^^ Z M ) ^ M ^^ "ik^ . 



CouvREOR, Li ki, Vol. I, p. 367. 



8 ^ ^1 (A. D. 276—324), the famous Taoistic author and poet, who edited the 

 'Rh ya and the Shan hai king. 



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