S OHtttESE SECEE* SOCIETIES* 



which provinces the horse-dealers established subordinate 

 Lodges. 



(3) The flags of the Five elements ; (72) Metal, Wood, 

 Water, Fire, and Earth, White, Green, Black, Eed, and 

 Yellow. 



(4) The flags of the cardinal points ; East, green, West, 

 white, South, red, North, black. 



(5) The Four Season flags ; Spring, green, Summer, red, 

 Autumn, white, Winter black. 



(6) The flags of Heaven, Earth, the Sun and Moon, 

 Azure, Yellow, Eed, and White. 



(7) The seven stars, (73) eight diagrams, (74) Golden Or- 

 chid (75) flags, and the standard of the " Victorious brother- 

 hood," green, yellow, red, and scarlet. 



(8) The four red flags of ;— the elder brother, Ban-hun- 

 leong,*(76) Sien Seng, Tan-kin lam, (7 7) the Sien Hong, 

 Thien-iu-ang,(78) and the General of the main body, Thun- 

 thien-huai (79). 



(9) The yellow umbrella ; (80; . 



(10) The Warrant Flag for the Leader of the Armies (81;. 



(11) The Spirit Tablet "of the five ancestors "(82; ; on 

 the left of which are inserted, the warrant flags, the " pre- 

 cious sword,"/83; a pair of scissors, a swan-pan, (84) and the 

 "precious mirror." (85;. 



On the right of the Tablet, are the sword-sheath, foot 

 measure, small scales and weights, the " four precious things 

 of the library," (86;, viz. pen, ink, inkstone, and white paper 

 fan, — also, there are five hanks of each colour of silk thread, 

 white, yellow, red, green, and black. 



(12) A model of the real, " Ang Hoa Teng "(87;, with its 

 three doors ; in a kind of turret above the central door 

 is the inscription, "By Imperial, (or Sacred) Command "(88;- 

 The side-doors have inscribed on them a pair of parallel sene 

 tences, altogether containing 16 characters, each having th- 

 radical " suij" or water, added (89). 



" Here is the place where " Tat chung,* the first Buddhist 



* See Paper No. 1 S. A. S. Journal, June 1878. p. 80. 



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