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The host lays a chop-stick across the cup of tea. The guest says : Mij lord! come down from 

 your horse ( l ), and drinks the contents. 



The host lays a pipe across two cups of tea. The guest takes it off, saying this quatrain: 



The pure water of both the ponds nourishes a blue dragon ( 2 ) ; 



In the hand I hold this blue dragon pierced at both ends. ( 3 ) 



If there is no water in the ponds, the blue dragon dies; 



When Heaven and Earth have turned over, we'11 see a universal peace. 



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The host lays a pipe across a cup of tea. The guest takes the pipe off, whilst saying this 

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A blue dragon is in the pond; 



Five tigers come down the mountains and folio w the blue dragon. ( 4 ) 



The pond was shallow and steep and he could not escape; 



The waterless well imprisons the blue dragon. 



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The host places two cups of tea on the table, the one Ml and the other half-full. The guest 

 ought to pour the Mier cup into the less full-one till the quantities are even, saying this 

 quatrain : 



If two men first learned from one master, 



And one is faithful, the other treacherous : 



The faithful will be left by God to the coming generations; 



But the traitor shall perish by the sword. 



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( 4 ) A pipe is on the cup of tea; Five fingers come down from the arm and follow the pipe. 



