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If a stranger enters, the host takes one cup from the tray and places it on the table. 

 The host invites the new-comer to taste of this tea If the guest is a brotlier , he will most 

 surely replace the cup again on the tray and, before drinking, say this quatrain: 



Within the city of willows i8 the Heaven-and-Earth-circle ; 

 The pledged-ones give all evidence with a drop of red ( ] ). 

 To day you, my adopted brother, will examine me; 

 But don't take a Hung-man for a stranger. 



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The host places two cups of tea on the top of the tea-pot, which represents „Sun and moon 

 in aspect." ( 2 ) The guest takes down the cups, fills them with tea and, having said the 

 folio wing quatrain, drinks them: 



When sun and moon rise together, the East is bright. 



A million of warriors are the Heroes of Hung. 



Whea Tsing is overturned, and the true lord of Ming restored, 



The faithful and loyal will be made grandee3. ( 3 ) 



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O O O Two cups of tea placed on both sides of the tea-pot signify : Wu-san-hwei who 

 requests Skun-cM to enter China, protect the country and take Peking." ( 4 ) The guest oughfc 

 to turn one cup towards the snout of the tea-pot, sayïng this quatrain: 



C 1 ) i. e. a drop of blood. (See pag. 145.) 



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(*) Towards the decline of the dynasty of Ming , Wu-mn-kwei (^ H jt)? S cn€ral of thc eII1 P eror 



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