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If you want to enter the house of a brother, you ought first to stop a moment before 

 the threshold and, then, enter first with the left foot. 



If you enter the house, shop or school of a brother to pay him. a visit, you ought 

 to give some sign of recognition; if you have an umbrella in your hand, you ought to 

 wind your handkerchief around the point of it, with a knot in the middle, and, having 

 entered the house, you ought to place the umbrella in the left corner ( 1 ); the hat or rain- 

 hat ( 2 ), which you have on your head, you ought to depose in the same way. 



If you wear grass-shoes, and you are going to sit down on a chair, you ought to place 

 the points of your shoes pointed towards each other, whilst your legs are wide apart; a 

 brother can then recognize that you are one who has done the eight salutations. ( 3 ) 



If a brother is not at home, but Iris wife is at home, you can leave your shoes withln 

 the threshold: the points of the shoes pointed towards each other, and the shoe-heels apart 

 from each other. The brother, returning home, knows then that an own brother has been 

 there, who has performed the eight salutations. 



If you want to go away again immediately, you ought to put your shoes with the points 

 towards the threshold. The brother knows then that you have dined already, and are 

 going away immediately; but, if you put the shoes with their heels towards the door, he 

 knows that you want to remain over night. 



In case you have an umbrella with you, you may, also, draw the ring over the umbrella 

 if you are going to remain; but in case you are going away immediately, leave your um- 

 brella loosened. 



If you call upon a brother with a friend or relation of yours, you ought to say in en- 

 tering the house: ,/What a cold draft there is in the house!" ( 4 ) 



If a brother enters the house of another brother with a stranger, and he wishes to pass 

 the night there, he ought to place his umbrella and hat against the left wall; if he has urgent or 

 pressing affairs, he ought to lay them down on the ground; the brother then places them aright. 



( JM) would become much mightier if a sage would dweil in it; I don't doubt that you. are the sage I 

 want." He let him mount in his chariot and they returned together. Although Kiang-shaw; was already 

 82 years of age, still Wen-wang made him his first minister, (Ilistoire Générale de laChine, T. I., 241.) 



(*) This knot represents the character faithful, which is abbreviated to fff instead of ^ 



( 3 ) Large hat made of the leaves of ltaphis Jlabelliformis , and worn during showers. I;p£ ^ 



( 3 ) As the shoes, so placed, form the character eight, A., (Comp. pag. 134.) 



^ M ft fit §£ W») warüiu S üim that aa unitiated is with him, as a draft mcans a strc 



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