EXOGAMY IN CHIXA 123 



In the Golden Bough, quoting Spencer and Gillen's Golden Bough. 



"Native Tribes of Central Australia," it is said, "no 

 one may utter the name of the deceased during the 

 period of mourning . . . "If the ghost hears his 

 name mentioned, he concludes that his kinsfolk are not 

 mourning for him properly; if their grief were geniune 

 they could not bear to bandy his name about." 



In the Book of Eites it is said "When Tsze-phu Li Ki. Lease. 



On eit S B i 



died, the wailers called out his name Mieh. Tsze-kao pt."iii."voi."27 

 said, 'So rude and uncultivated are they!'. On this p * 153, 

 they changed their style." 



Tsze-kao was a disciple of Confucius ; and it is 

 interestnig to note how a taboo which had its origin in 

 a real fear, was becoming a rule of decorum, a matter 

 of "good form." 



In the "Miscellaneous Eecords" it is said, "After LiKf.Legge. 

 the wailing was ended, there commenced the avoiding pf. a jv. a vei.'2r 

 of certain names. (An officer) did not use the name p * 161 * 

 of his (paternal) grandfather or grandmother, of his 

 father's brothers or uncles; of his father's aunts or 

 sisters. Father and son agreed in avoiding all these 

 names. The names avoided by his mother the son 

 avoided in the house. Those avoided by his wife he 

 did not use when at her side. If among them there 

 were names which had been borne by his own paternal 

 great-grandfather or great-grand uncles, he avoided 

 them (in all places)." 



In the "Summary of the Eules of Propriety" it is Op. eft. Pi. lit 

 said, "When the ceremony of wailing is over, a son B ' 93, 

 should no longer speak of his deceased father by his 

 name. The rules do not require the avoiding of names 

 merely similar in sound to those not to be spoken. 

 When (a parent had) a double name, the avoiding of 

 either term (used singly) is not required. While his 

 parents (are alive), and a son is able to serve them, 

 he should not utter the names of his grandparents; 

 when he can no longer serve his parents (through their 

 death), he need not • avoid the names of his grand- 

 parents. Names that would not be spoken (in his own 

 family) need not be avoided (by a great officer) before 

 his ruler; in the great officer's however, the names 

 proper to be suppressed by the ruler should not be 

 spoken." 



In the "Eoyal Eegulations" it is said: "The Li KLLoije. f 

 Grand Eecorder had the superintendence of ceremonies, pt.' in.'p. 238-9. 

 He was in charge of the tablets of record and brought 

 before the king what (names) were to be avoided, and 



