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steps". A little further ^ we read:, "For ladles they (the rulers 

 of Lu) had that of Hia, with the handle ending in a dragon'^ 

 head" and «they had the music-stand of Hia, with its face-board 

 and posts, on which dragofis were carved"'; "they had knee- 

 covers of Cheu, with dragons" K 



sinda of dragons, used as ornaments.^ 



A well-known work of the end of the sixteenth century, the 

 Wuh tsah tsu\ informs us about the nine diflFer ent^oung of the 

 _ dragon, whose s hapes are us ed-as-oraam fints according to ihp\r 

 nature. J The p^u-lao % dragons which li k_e_to_c ry, are re presented 

 ^n the tops o f bells, serv ing r,^ handj ps. The *^e-nm «, jwhichJika__ 

 - rmisic, are used to a dor n music a l i ns triim eniis. The chH-wen\ 

 ffihic h like swallowing, are place d on both ends o fthe ridgepoles 

 _olKi()fe~(fo s"wRTfojv_ajj_m]jjaflxiences). The cAao^Wpr noQ^TlSe 

 beasta--whidLJike _ precipices, are placed o n the four cnrnp.rs nf 

 ^^roofau,The ai-hiva", which like to kill, serve as ornaments .o f 

 _swfird=grips^The M-pi '», w hich have the„ ^.b3^R-f>:M^h<wa^f^^z^' 

 anJ3i:e--E&Bd--o£4i4eEatjira^_are_re presented on the sides of gra ve- 

 m onuments . The pH-han '^ w hich like litigation, are placed ov er 

 ^^isoflL.gat es (in order toJ tefip_g]iardl_The swan-i '\ wh ich like ^ 

 to sit dow n ^re represented upon J JifUbases-jiLJ^ndHH^tJdnls ^ 

 ^ (under the Buddhas' or"Bodhisatt Yasl-fe£t). Th e pa-Ma '\ finallY. 

 _big ^tortoises which like to carry heavy objects, are placed under 

 _grayeimonurB3:eHtsT^5 



1 CouvREUR, 1. 1, p. 736, § 20: ^ A} ^ M S ^ \^ W. ^ i \^gge, 

 I.]., p. 35. 



2 COUVREUR, 1.1., p. 739, §26: '^^^1^%%% )^ ^ Legge, 1.1., p. 37.' 



3 CouvREUR, 1.1., p. 740, § 29: ^ f | :^ , Legge, 1.1., p. 38. 



4 ^ ^ ^, written about 1592 by Sie Chao-chi, ^ ^ y^|j ^ 



5 ^^. 6 PI4.. 7 ^^. ° 



n ^^ -^ , represented in the T. S., Sect. -^ ^ , Ch. 127, and in the Wakan sansai 

 . zue, Ch. XLV, p. 674. Of. De Geoot, Rel. Syst, Vol III, p. 1142, Fig. 37, a chH (or li) 

 te, , carved in the border crowning a sepulchral tablet of stone. It is mentioned al- 

 ready in the third century before our era (in the Lu-shi ch'un-ts'^iu), and described 

 in the Shwoh wen as a yellow animal, resembling a dragon, or as a hornless dragon. 



12 ^^. i^mm- '^ mT- 



15 The same facts are to be found in the Wakan sansai zue, Ch. XLV, p. 674, 

 and are further explained in the dictionary entitled Ching tsze fang ( jip *#t ^S 



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