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Hunting, fishing, cooking, weaving, dyeing, carpentry, metallurgy, glass-, brick-, and paper-making, printing, and book-binding\nwere in a more or less primitive stage, the mechanical arts showing much servile imitation and simplicity in design; but pottery,\ncarving, and lacquer-work were in an exceptionally high state of development, the articles produced being surpassed in quality\nand beauty by no others in the world.\n\n

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Chapter II

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On Chinese Mythology

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The sobriety and accuracy of Chinese historians is proverbial. I have dilated upon this in another work, and need add here\nonly what I inadvertently omitted there—a point hitherto unnoticed or at least unremarked—that the very word for history in\nChinese (shih) means impartiality or an impartial annalist. It has been said that where there is much myth there is little history, and\nvice versa, and though this may not be universally true, undoubtedly the persistently truthful recording of facts, events, and sayings,\neven at the risk of loss, yea, and actual loss of life of the historian as the result of his refusal to make false entries\nin his chronicle at the bidding of the emperor (as in the case of the historiographers of Ch’i in 547 B.C.), indicates a type\nof mind which would require some very strong stimulus to cause it to soar very far into the hazy realms of fanciful imagination.\n\n\n

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A further cause, already hinted at above, for the arrest of intellectual progress is to be found in the growth of the nation\nin size during many centuries of isolation from the main stream of world-civilization, without that increase in heterogeneity\nwhich comes from the moulding by forces external to itself. “As iron sharpeneth iron, so a man sharpeneth the countenance\nof his friend.” Page 64Consequently we find China what is known to sociology as an ‘aggregate of the first order,’ which during its evolution has\nparted with its internal life-heat without absorbing enough from external sources to enable it to retain the plastic condition\nnecessary to further, or at least rapid, development. It is in a state of rigidity, a state recognized and understood by the\nsociologist in his study of the evolution of nations.\n\n

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A third condition is that the type of imagination must be persistent through fairly long periods of time, otherwise not only\nwill there be an absence of sufficient feeling or momentum to cause the myths to be repeated and kept alive and transmitted\nto posterity, but the inducement to add to them and so enable them to mature and become complete and finished off and sufficiently\nattractive to Page 67appeal to the human mind in spite of the foreign character they often bear will be lacking. In other words, myths and legends\ngrow. They resemble not so much the narrative of the story-teller or novelist as a gradually developing art like music, or\na body of ideas like philosophy. They are human and natural, though they express the thought not of any one individual mind,\nbut of the folk-soul, exemplifying in poetical form some great psychological or physiographical truth.\n\n

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Tso-ch’iu Ming, commentator on Confucius’s Annals, frequently introduced legend into his history. Lieh Tzŭ (fifth and fourth centuries B. C. ), a metaphysician, is one of the\nearliest authors who deal in myths. He is the first to mention the story of Hsi Wang Mu, the Western Queen, and from his day\nonward the fabulists have vied with one another in fantastic descriptions of the wonders of her fairyland.

He was the first\nto mention the islands of the immortals in the ocean, the kingdoms of the dwarfs and giants, the fruit of immortality, the\nrepairing of the heavens by Nü Kua Shih with five-coloured stones, and the great tortoise which supports the universe.

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Chapter III

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Cosmogony-p’an Ku and the Creation Myth

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Thus we have the heavens and the earth fashioned by this wonderful being in eighteen thousand years. With regard to him we\nmay adapt the Scandinavian ballad:\n\n

It was Time’s morning\n
When P’an Ku lived;\n
There was no sand, no sea,\n
Nor cooling billows;\n

Earth there was none,\n
No lofty Heaven;\n
No spot of living green;\n
Only a deep profound.\n

And it is interesting to note, in passing, the similarity between this Chinese artificer of the universe and Ymer, the giant,\nwho discharges the same functions in Scandinavian mythology. Though P’an Ku did not have the same kind of birth nor meet with\nthe violent death of the latter, the results as regards the origin of the universe seem to have been pretty much the same.4\n\n

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The Five Elements or Forces (wu hsing)—which, according to the Chinese, are metal, air, fire, water, and wood—are first mentioned in Chinese literature in a chapter\nof the classic Book of History.6 They play a very important part in Chinese thought: ‘elements’ meaning generally not so much the actual substances as the\nforces essential to human, life. They have to be noticed in passing, because they were involved in the development of the\ncosmogonical ideas which took place in the eleventh and twelfth centuries A.D.\nPage 85

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Chou Tun-i, appropriately apotheosized as ‘Prince in the Empire of Reason,’ completed and systematized the philosophical world-conception\nwhich had hitherto obtained in the Chinese mind. He did not ask his fellow-countrymen to discard any part of what they had\nlong held in high esteem: he raised the old theories from the sphere of science to that of philosophy by unifying them and\nbringing them to a focus. And he made this unification intelligible to the Chinese mind by his famous T’ai chi t’u, or Diagram of the Great Origin (or Grand Terminus), showing that the Grand Original Cause, itself uncaused, produces the\nyang and the yin, these the Five Elements, and so on, through the male and female norms (tao), to the production of all things.\n\n

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In the philosophy of Mo Ti (fifth and fourth centuries B. C. ), generally known as Mo Tzŭ or Mu Tzŭ, the philosopher of humanism\nand utilitarianism, we find the idea of creation. It was, he says, Heaven (which was anthropomorphically regarded by him as\na personal Supreme Being) who “created the sun, moon, and innumerable stars. ” His system closely resembles Christianity, but\nthe great power of Confucianism as a weapon wielded against all opponents by its doughty Page 90defender Mencius (372–289 B.

C. ) is shown by the complete suppression of the influence of Mo Tzŭism at his hands. He even went\nso far as to describe Mo Tzŭ and those who thought with him as “wild animals.

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Mencius himself regarded Heaven as the First Cause, or Cause of Causes, but it was not the same personal Heaven as that of\nMo Tzŭ. Nor does he hang any cosmogony upon it. His chief concern was to eulogize the doctrines of the great Confucius, and\nlike him he preferred to let the origin of the universe look after itself.\n\n

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Chuang Chou (fourth and third centuries B. C. ), generally known as Chuang Tzŭ, the most brilliant Taoist of all, maintained\nwith Lao Tzŭ that the universe started from the Nameless, but it was if possible a more absolute and transcendental Nameless\nthan that of Lao Tzŭ. He dwells on the relativity of knowledge; as when asleep he did not know that he was a man dreaming\nthat he was a butterfly, so when awake he did not know that he was not a butterfly dreaming that he was a man. 8 But “all is embraced in the obliterating unity of the tao, and the wise man, passing into the realm of the Infinite, finds rest therein.

” And this tao, of which we hear so much in Chinese philosophy, was before the Great Ultimate or Grand Terminus (t’ai chi), and “from it came the mysterious existence of God [ti]. It produced Heaven, it produced earth.

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Chapter IV

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The Gods of China

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The dualism noted in the last chapter is well illustrated by the Chinese pantheon. Whether as the result of the co-operation\nof the yin and the yang or of the final dissolution of P’an Ku, human beings came into existence. To the primitive mind the body and its shadow,\nan object and its reflection in water, real life and dream life, sensibility and insensibility (as in fainting, etc. ), suggest\nthe idea of another life parallel with this life and of the doings of the ‘other self’ in it. This ‘other self,’ this spirit,\nwhich leaves the body for longer or shorter intervals in dreams, swoons, death, may return or be brought back, and the body\nrevive.

Spirits which do not return or are not brought back may cause mischief, either alone, or by entry into another human\nor animal body or even an inanimate object, and should therefore be propitiated. Hence worship and deification.

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The Chinese pantheon has gradually become so multitudinous that there is scarcely a being or thing which is not, or has not\nbeen at some time or other, propitiated or worshipped. As there are good and evil people in this world, so there are gods\nand demons in the Otherworld: we find a polytheism limited only by a polydemonism. The dualistic hierarchy is almost all-embracing.\nTo get a clear idea of this populous Otherworld, of the supernal and infernal hosts and their organizations, it needs but\nto imagine the social structure in its main features as it existed Page 94throughout the greater part of Chinese history, and to make certain additions. The social structure consisted of the ruler,\nhis court, his civil, military, and ecclesiastical officials, and his subjects (classed as Scholars—officials and gentry—Agriculturists,\nArtisans, and Merchants, in that order).\n\n

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Owing to T’ien, Heaven, the abode of the spirits, becoming personified, it came to be worshipped not only by the emperor,\nbut by the people also. But there was a difference between these two worships, because the emperor performed his worship of\nHeaven officially at the great altar of the Temple of Heaven at Peking (in early times at the altar in the suburb of the capital),\nwhereas the people (continuing always to worship their ancestors) worshipped Heaven, when they did so at all—the custom being\nobserved by some and not by others, just as in Western countries some people go to church, while others Page 96stay away—usually at the time of the New Year, in a simple, unceremonious way, by lighting some incense-sticks and waving\nthem toward the sky in the courtyards of their own houses or in the street just outside their doors.\n\n

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The toleration, fraternity, or co-mixture of the three religions—ancestor-worship or Confucianism, Chinese Buddhism, and Taoism—explains\nthe compound nature of the triune head of the Chinese pantheon. The Page 101numerous deities of Buddhism and Taoism culminate each in a triad of gods (the Three Precious Ones and the Three Pure Ones\nrespectively), but the three religions jointly have also a triad compounded of one representative member of each. This general\nor super-triad is, of course, composed of Confucius, Lao Tzŭ, and Buddha. This is the officially decreed order, though it\nis varied occasionally by Buddha being placed in the centre (the place of honour) as an act of ceremonial deference shown\nto a ‘stranger’ or ‘guest’ from another country.\n\n

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The popular representations of Wên Ch’ang depict the god himself and four other figures. The central and largest is the demure\nportrait of the god, clothed in blue and holding a sceptre in his left hand. Behind him stand two youthful attendants. They\nare the servant and groom who always accompany him on his journeys (on which he rides a white horse). Their names are Page 110respectively Hsüan T’ung-tzŭ and Ti-mu, ‘Sombre Youth’ and ‘Earth-mother’; more commonly they are called T’ien-lung, ‘Deaf\nCelestial,‘ and Ti-ya, ‘Mute Terrestrial,’ or ‘Deaf as Heaven’ and ‘Mute as Earth.

’ Thus they cannot divulge the secrets of\ntheir master’s administration as he distributes intellectual gifts, literary skill, etc. Their cosmogonical connexion has\nalready been referred to in a previous chapter.

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In front of Wên Ch’ang, on his left, stands K’uei Hsing. He is represented as of diminutive stature, with the visage of a\ndemon, holding a writing-brush in his right hand and a tou in his left, one of his legs kicking up behind—the figure being obviously intended as an impersonation of the character k’uei (2).6 He is regarded as the distributor of literary degrees, and was invoked above all in order to obtain success at the competitive\nexaminations. His images and temples are found in all towns. In the temples dedicated to Wên Ch’ang there are always two secondary\naltars, one of which is consecrated to his worship.\n\n

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Chu I is sometimes accompanied by another personage, named Chin Chia, ‘Mr Golden Cuirass.’ Like K’uei Hsing and Chu I he has\ncharge of the interests of scholars, but differs from them in that he holds a flag, which he has Page 113only to wave in front of a house for the family inhabiting it to be assured that among their descendants will be some who\nwill win literary honours and be promoted to high offices under the State.\n\n

Though Chin Chia is the protector of scholars, he is also the redoubtable avenger of their evil actions: his flag is saluted\nas a good omen, but his sword is the terror of the wicked.\n\n

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One day he arrived at Chu-chou, a dependent sub-prefecture of Peking, in Chihli. There Chang Fei, a butcher, who had been\nselling his meat all the morning, at noon lowered what remained into a well, placed over the mouth of the well a stone weighing\ntwenty-five pounds, and said with a sneer: “If anyone can lift that stone and take my meat, I will make him a present of it! ”\nKuan Yü, going up to the edge of the well, lifted the stone with the same ease as he would a tile, took the meat, and made\noff. Chang Fei pursued him, and eventually the two came to blows, but no one dared to separate them. Just then Liu Pei, a\nhawker of straw shoes, arrived, interposed, and put a stop to the fight.

The community of ideas which they found they possessed\nsoon gave rise to a firm friendship between the three men.

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Mu Kung or Tung Wang Kung, the God of the Immortals, was also called I Chün Ming and Yü Huang Chün, the Prince Yü Huang.\n\n

The primitive vapour congealed, remained inactive for a time, and then produced living beings, beginning with the formation\nof Mu Kung, the purest substance of the Eastern Air, and sovereign of the active male principle yang and of all the countries of the East. His palace is in the misty heavens, violet clouds form its dome, blue clouds its walls.\nHsien T’ung, ‘the Immortal Youth,’ and Yü Nü, ‘the Jade Maiden,’ are his servants. He keeps the register of all the Immortals,\nmale and female.\n\n

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The name of Chang Tao-ling, the Heavenly Teacher, is a household word in China. He is on earth the Vicegerent of the Pearly\nEmperor in Heaven, and the Commander-in-Chief of the hosts of Taoism. He, the chief of the wizards, the ‘true [i. e. ideal] man,’ as he is called, Page 142wields an immense spiritual power throughout the land.

The present pope boasts of an unbroken line for three-score generations. His family obtained possession of the Dragon-tiger Mountain in Kiangsi about A. D. 1000. “This personage,” says a pre-Republican\nwriter, “assumes a state which mimics the imperial.

He confers buttons like an emperor. Priests come to him from various cities\nand temples to receive promotion, whom he invests with titles and presents with seals of office.

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The Four Kings of Heaven, Ssŭ Ta T’ien-wang, reside on Mount Sumêru (Hsü-mi Shan), the centre of the universe. It is 3,360,000\nli—that is, about a million miles—high. 9 Its eastern slope is of gold, its western of silver, its south-eastern of crystal, and its north-eastern of agate. The Four\nKings appear to be the Taoist reflection of the four Chin-kang of Buddhism already noticed. Their names are Li, Ma, Chao, and Wên.

They are represented as holding a pagoda, sword, two\nswords, and spiked club respectively. Their worship appears to be due to their auspicious appearance and aid on various critical\noccasions in the dynastic history of the T’ang and Sung Periods.

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One of the tales associated with him describes how he saw a young woman in mourning vigorously fanning a newly made grave.\nOn his asking her the reason of this strange conduct, she replied: “I am doing this because my husband begged me to wait until\nthe earth on his tomb was dry before I remarried!” Chuang Tzŭ offered to help her, and as soon as he waved the fan once the\nearth was dry. The young widow thanked him and departed.\n\n

On his return home, Chuang Shêng related this incident to his wife. She expressed astonishment at such conduct on the part\nof a wife. “There’s nothing to be surprised at,” rejoined the husband; “that’s how things go in this world. ” Seeing that he\nwas poking fun at her, she protested angrily. Some little time after this Chuang Shêng died.

His wife, much grieved, buried\nhim.

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A large number of military men also have been canonized as celestial generalissimos. A few will serve as examples of the rest.\n\nPage 151

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This is said to be the origin of the dragon-boats which are to be seen on all the waterways of China on the fifth day of the\nfifth moon.11 The Festival of the Dragon-boats, held on that day, was instituted in memory of the statesman-poet Ch’ü Yüan (332–296 B.C.),\nwho drowned himself in the Mi-lo River, an affluent of the Tung-t’ing Lake, after having been falsely accused by one of the\npetty princes of the State. The people, out of pity for the unfortunate courtier, sent out these boats in search of his body.\n\n\n

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In the wars which resulted in the overthrow of the tyrant Chou Wang and his dynasty and the establishment of the great Chou\ndynasty, the most influential generalissimo was Chiang Tzŭ-ya. His family name was Chiang, and his own name Shang, but owing\nto his descent from one of the ministers of the ancient King Yao, whose heirs owned the fief of Lü, the family came to be\ncalled by that name, and he himself was known as Lü Shang. His honorific title was T’ai Kung Wang, ‘Hope of T’ai Kung,’ given\nhim by Wên Wang, who recognized in the person of Chiang Tzŭ-ya the wise minister whom his father T’ai Kung had caused him\nto expect before his death.\n\n

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Chiang Tzŭ-ya was originally in the service of the tyrant Chou Wang, but transferred his services to the Chou cause, and by\nhis wonderful skill enabled that house finally to gain the victory. The decisive battle Page 153took place at Mu Yeh, situated to the south of Wei-hui Fu, in 1122 B.C. The soldiers of Yin, 700,000 in number, were defeated,\nand Chou, the tyrant, shut himself up in his magnificent palace, set it alight, and was burned alive with all his possessions.\nFor this achievement Chiang Tzŭ-ya was granted by Wu Wang the title of Father and Counsellor, and was appointed Prince of\nCh’i, with perpetual succession to his descendants.\n\n

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The Feng shên yen i contains many chapters describing in detail the various battles which resulted in the overthrow of the last tyrant of the\nShang dynasty and the establishment of the illustrious Chou dynasty on the throne of China. This legend and the following\none are epitomized from that work.\n\n

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Tzŭ-ya, however, still uncertain in mind about the finality of No-cha’s victories, went to consult Wu Wang (whose death had\nnot yet taken place at this time). After the interview Tzŭ-ya informed Wu Wang of his wish to visit K’un-lun Mountain. Wu\nWang warned him of the danger of leaving the kingdom with the enemy so near the capital; but Tzŭ-ya obtained his consent by\nsaying he would be absent only three days at most. So he gave instructions regarding the defence to No-cha, and went off in\nhis spirit chariot to K’un-lun. On his arrival at the Unicorn Precipice he was much enraptured with the beautiful scenery,\nthe colours, flowers, trees, bridges, birds, deer, apes, blue lions, white elephants, etc.

, all of which seemed to make earth\nsurpass Heaven in loveliness.

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Shên Kung-pao then doffed his Taoist cap, seized his sword, with his left hand firmly grasped the blue thread binding his\nhair, and with his right cut off his head. His body did not fall down. He then took his head and threw it up into space. Tzŭ-ya\ngazed with upturned face as it continued to rise, and was sorely puzzled. But the Ancient Immortal of the South Pole had kept\na watch on the proceedings.

He said: “Tzŭ-ya is a loyal and honest man; it looks as if he has been deceived by this charlatan. ”\nHe ordered White Crane Youth to assume quickly the form of a crane and fetch Shên Kung-pao’s head.

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In another of the many conflicts between the two rival states Lao Tzŭ entered the battle, whereupon Ch’iung Hsiao, a goddess\nwho fought for the house of Shang (Chou), hurled into the air her gold scaly-dragon scissors. As these slowly descended, opening\nand closing in a most ominous manner, Lao Tzŭ waved the sleeve of his jacket and they fell into the sea and became absolutely\nmotionless. Many similar tricks were used by the various contestants. The Gold Bushel of Chaotic Origin succumbed to the Wind-fire\nSphere, and so on. Ch’iung Hsiao resumed the attack with some magic two-edged swords, but was killed by a blow from White\nCrane Youth’s Three-precious Jade Sceptre, hurled at her by Lao Tzŭ’s orders.

Pi Hsiao, her sister, attempted to avenge her\ndeath, but Yüan-shih, producing from his sleeve a magical box, threw it into the air and caught Pi Hsiao in it. When it was\nopened it was found that she had melted into blood and water.

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After this Lao Tzŭ rallied many of the skilful spirits to help Chiang Tzŭ-ya in his battle with Wên Chung, providing them\nwith the Ancient Immortal of the South Pole’s Sand-blaster and an earth-conquering light which enabled them to travel a thousand\nli in a day. From the hot sand used the contest became known as the Red Sand Battle. Jan Têng, on P’êng-lai Mountain, in consultation\nwith Tzŭ-ya, also arranged the plan of battle.\n\n

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Besides the gods who hold definite official posts in these various Ministries, there are a very large number who are also\nprotecting patrons of the people; and, though ex officio, in many cases quite as popular and powerful, if not more so. Among the most important are the following: Shê-chi, Gods of\nthe Soil and Crops; Shên Nung, God of Agriculture; Hou-t’u, Earth-mother; Ch’êng-huang, City-god; T’u-ti, Local Gods; Tsao\nChün, Kitchen-god; T’ien-hou and An-kung, Goddess and God of Sailors; Ts’an Nü, Goddess of Silkworms; Pa-ch’a, God of Grasshoppers;\nFu Shên, Ts’ai Shên, and Shou Hsing, Gods of Happiness, Wealth, and Longevity; Mên Shên, Door-gods; and Shê-mo Wang, etc.,\nthe Gods of Serpents.\n\n

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Chapter V

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Myths of the Stars

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One day T’ai-i Huang-jên sent him to cut some bamboos on the summit of Ô-mei Shan, distant more than three hundred li from the place where they lived. When he reached the base of the summit, all of a sudden three giddy peaks confronted him,\nso dangerous that even the monkeys and other animals dared not attempt to scale them. But he took his courage in his hands,\nclimbed the steep slope, and by sheer energy reached the summit. Having cut the bamboos, he tried to descend, but the rocks\nrose like a wall in sharp points all round him, and he could not find a foothold anywhere. Then, though laden with the bamboos,\nhe threw himself into the air, and was borne on the wings of the wind.

He came to earth safe and sound at the foot of the\nmountain, and ran with the bamboos to his master. On account of this feat he was considered advanced enough to be admitted\nto instruction in the doctrine.

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The Emperor Yao, in the twelfth year of his reign (2346 B. C. ), one day, while walking in the streets of Huai-yang, met a man\ncarrying a bow and arrows, the bow being bound round with a piece of red stuff. This was Ch’ih-chiang Tzŭ-yü. He told the\nEmperor he was a skilful archer and could fly in the air on the wings of Page 181the wind.

Yao, to test his skill, ordered him to shoot one of his arrows at a pine-tree on the top of a neighbouring mountain. Ch’ih shot an arrow which transfixed the tree, and then jumped on to a current of air to go and fetch the arrow back. Because\nof this the Emperor named him Shên I, ‘the Divine Archer,’ attached him to his suite, and appointed him Chief Mechanician\nof all Works in Wood. He continued to live only on flowers.

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At this time terrible calamities began to lay waste the land. Ten suns appeared in the sky, the heat of which burnt up all\nthe crops; dreadful storms uprooted trees and overturned houses; floods overspread the country. Near the Tung-t’ing Lake a\nserpent, a thousand feet long, devoured human beings, and wild boars of enormous size did great damage in the eastern part\nof the kingdom. Yao ordered Shên I to go and slay the devils and monsters who were causing all this mischief, placing three\nhundred men at his service for that purpose.\n\n

Shên I took up his post on Mount Ch’ing Ch’iu to study the cause of the devastating storms, and found that these tempests\nwere released by Fei Lien, the Spirit of the Wind, who blew them out of a sack. As we shall see when considering the thunder\nmyths, the ensuing conflict ended in Fei Lien suing for mercy and swearing friendship to his victor, whereupon the storms\nceased.\n\n

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After this first victory Shên I led his troops to the banks of the Hsi Ho, West River, at Lin Shan. Here he discovered that\non three neighbouring peaks nine Page 182extraordinary birds were blowing out fire and thus forming nine new suns in the sky. Shên I shot nine arrows in succession,\npierced the birds, and immediately the nine false suns resolved themselves into red clouds and melted away. Shên I and his\nsoldiers found the nine arrows stuck in nine red stones at the top of the mountain.\n\n

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Shên I then led his soldiers to Kao-liang, where the river had risen and formed an immense torrent. He shot an arrow into\nthe water, which thereupon withdrew to its source. In the flood he saw a man clothed in white, riding a white horse and accompanied\nby a dozen attendants. He quickly discharged an arrow, striking him in the left eye, and the horseman at once took to flight. He was accompanied by a young woman named Hêng O1, the younger sister of Ho Po, the Spirit of the Waters.

Shên I shot an arrow into her hair. She turned and thanked him for\nsparing her life, adding: “I will agree to be your wife. ” After these events had been duly reported to the Emperor Yao, the\nwedding took place.

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Three months later Yao ordered Shên I to go and kill the great Tung-t’ing serpent. An arrow in the left eye laid him out stark\nand dead. The wild boars also were all caught in traps and slain. As a reward for these Page 183achievements Yao canonized Shên I with the title of Marquis Pacifier of the Country.\n\n

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On reaching home, the archer hid his precious pill under a rafter, lest anyone should steal it, and then began the preparatory\ncourse in immortality.\n\n

At this time there appeared in the south a strange man named Tso Ch’ih, ‘Chisel-tooth. ’ He had round eyes and a long projecting\ntooth. He was a well-known criminal. Yao ordered Shên I and his small band of brave followers to deal with this new enemy. This extraordinary man lived in a cave, and when Shên I and his men arrived he emerged brandishing a padlock.

Shên I broke\nhis long tooth by shooting an arrow at it, and Tso Ch’ih fled, but was struck in the back and laid low by another arrow from\nShên I. The victor took the broken tooth with him as a trophy.

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T’ai Sui is the celestial spirit who presides over the year. He is the President of the Ministry of Time. This god is much\nto be feared. Whoever offends against him is sure to be destroyed. He strikes when least expected to.

T’ai Sui is also the\nMinistry itself, whose members, numbering a hundred and twenty, are set over time, years, months, and days. The conception\nis held by some writers to be of Chaldeo-Assyrian origin.

The god T’ai Sui is not mentioned in the T’ang and Sung rituals, but in the Yüan dynasty (A.D. 1280–1368) sacrifices were\noffered to him in the College of the Grand Historiographer whenever any work of importance was about to be undertaken. Under\nthis dynasty the sacrifices were offered to T’ai Sui and to the ruling gods of the months and of the days. But these sacrifices\nwere not offered at regular times: it was only at the beginning of the Ch’ing (Manchu) dynasty (1644–1912) that it was decided\nto offer the sacrifices at fixed periods.\n\n

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T’ai Sui corresponds to the planet Jupiter. He travels across the sky, passing through the twelve sidereal mansions. He is\na stellar god. Therefore an altar is raised to him and sacrifices are offered on it under the open sky. This practice dates\nfrom the beginning of the Ming dynasty, when the Emperor T’ai Tsu ordered sacrifices to this god to be made throughout the\nEmpire.

According to some authors, he corresponds to the god Page 195of the twelve sidereal mansions. He is also variously represented as the moon, which turns to the left in the sky, and the\nsun, which turns to the right. The diviners gave to T’ai Sui the title of Grand Marshal, following the example of the usurper\nWang Mang (A. D. 9–23) of the Western Han dynasty, who gave that title to the year-star.

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Chapter VI

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Myths of Thunder, Lightning, Wind, and Rain

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Another legend relates that an old woman living in Kiangsi had her arm broken through being struck by lightning, when a voice\nfrom above was heard saying: “I have made a mistake. ” A bottle fell out of space, and the voice again said: “Apply the contents\nand you will be healed at once. ” This being done, the old woman’s arm was promptly mended. The villagers, regarding the contents\nof the bottle as divine medicine, wished to take it away and hide it for future use, but several of them together could not\nlift it from the ground. Suddenly, however, it rose up and disappeared into space.

Other persons in Kiangsi were also struck,\nand the same voice was heard to say: ” Apply some grubs to the throat and they will recover. “After this had been done the\nvictims returned to consciousness none the worse for their experience.

The worship of Lei Kung seems to have been carried on regularly from about the time of the Christian era.\n\n

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This divinity is represented as a female figure, gorgeously apparelled in blue, green, red, and white, holding in either hand\na mirror from which proceed two broad streams or flashes of light. Lightning, say the Chinese, is caused by the rubbing together\nof the yin and the yang, just as sparks of fire may be produced by the friction of two substances.\n\n

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Tung Wang Kung, the King of the Immortals, was playing at pitch-pot1 with Yü Nü. He lost; whereupon Heaven smiled, and from its half-open mouth a ray of light came out. This was lightning; it\nis regarded as Page 204feminine because it is supposed to come from the earth, which is of the yin, or female, principle.\n\n

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Chapter VII

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Myths of the Waters

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In the spirit-world there is a Ministry which controls all things connected with the waters on earth, salt or fresh. Its main\ndivisions are the Department of Salt Waters, presided over by four Dragon-kings—those of the East, South, West, and North—and\nthe Department of Sweet Waters, presided over by the Four Kings (Ssŭ Tu) of the four great rivers—the Blue (Chiang), Yellow (Ho), Huai, and Ch’i—and the Dragon-spirits who control the Secondary\nWaters, the rivers, springs, lakes, pools, rapids. Into the names and functions of the very large number of officials connected\nwith these departments it is unnecessary to enter. It will be sufficient here to refer only to those whose names are connected\nwith myth or legend.\n\n

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One of the consorts of Hung Wu, the Lady Wêng, had a son named Chu-ti. This young prince was very handsome and graceful in\nhis deportment; he was, moreover, of an amiable disposition. He was the fourth son of the Emperor, and his pleasing manner\nand address had made him a great favourite, not only with his father, but with every one about the Court. The Empress noticed\nthe evident affection the Emperor evinced for this prince, and determined to get him removed from the Court as soon as possible.\nBy a judicious use of flattery and cajolery, she ultimately persuaded the Emperor to appoint the prince governor of the Yen\ncountry, and thenceforth he was styled Yen Wang, Prince of Yen.\n\n

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The young Prince, shortly after, taking an affectionate leave of the Emperor, left Chin-ling to proceed to his post. Ere he\ndeparted, however, a Taoist priest, called Liu Po-wên, who had a great affection for the Prince, put a sealed packet into\nhis hand, and told him to open it when he found himself in difficulty, distress, or danger; the perusal of the first portion\nthat came to his hand would invariably suggest some remedy for the evil, whatever it was. After doing so, he was again to\nseal the packet, without further looking into its contents, till some other emergency arose necessitating advice or assistance,\nwhen he would again find it. The Prince departed on his journey, and in the course of time, without meeting with any adventures\nworth recording, arrived safely at his destination.\nPage 229

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The place where Peking now stands was originally called Yu Chou; in the T’ang dynasty it was called Pei-p’ing Fu; and afterward\nbecame known as Shun-t’ien Fu—but that was after the city now called Peking was built. The name of the country in which this\nplace was situated was Yen. It was a mere barren wilderness, with very few inhabitants; these lived in huts and scattered\nhamlets, and there was no city to afford protection to the people and to check the depredations of robbers.\n\n

When the Prince saw what a desolate-looking place he had been appointed to, and thought of the long years he was probably\ndestined to spend there, he grew very melancholy, and nothing his attendants essayed to do in hope of alleviating his sorrow\nsucceeded.\n\n

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All the people were loud in praise of the beauty and strength of the newly built city. Merchants from every province hastened\nto Peking, attracted by the news they heard of its magnificence and the prospect there was of profitably disposing of their\nwares. In short, the people were prosperous and happy, food was plentiful, Page 232the troops brave, the monarch just, his ministers virtuous, and all enjoyed the blessings of peace.\n\n

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In haste the Prince donned his armour, mounted his black steed, and, spear in hand, dashed out of the west gate of the city.\nHe pressed on his horse, which went swift as the wind, nor did he slacken speed till he came up with the water-stealing dragons,\nwho still retained the forms in which they had appeared to him in his Page 234dream. On a cart were the two identical baskets he had seen; in front of the cart, dragging it, was the old woman, while behind,\npushing it, was the old man.\n\n

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When the Prince saw them he galloped up to the cart, and, without pausing, thrust his spear into one of the baskets, making\na great hole, out of which the water rushed so rapidly that the Prince was much frightened. He dashed off at full speed to\nsave himself from being swallowed up by the waters, which in a very short time had risen more than thirty feet and had flooded\nthe surrounding country. On galloped the Prince, followed by the roaring water, till he reached a hill, up which he urged\nhis startled horse. When he gained the top he found that it stood out of the water like an island, completely surrounded;\nthe water was seething and swirling round the hill in a frightful manner, but no vestige could he see of either of the dragons.\n\n\n

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The Prince was very much alarmed at his perilous position, when suddenly a Buddhist priest appeared before him, with clasped\nhands and bent head, who bade him not be alarmed, as with Heaven’s assistance he would soon disperse the water. Hereupon the\npriest recited a short prayer or spell, and the waters receded as rapidly as they had risen, and finally returned to their\nproper channels.\n\n

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Chapter VIII

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Myths of Fire

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Having arrived at the city of Hsi Ch’i, Lo Hsüan sent forth his smoke-column, the air was filled with swords of fire, the\nten thousand fire-crows, emerging from the Page 237gourd, spread themselves over the town, and a terrible conflagration broke out, the whole place being ablaze in a few minutes.\n\n\n

At this juncture there appeared in the sky the Princess Lung Chi, daughter of Wang-mu Niang-niang; forthwith she spread over\nthe city her shroud of mist and dew, and the fire was extinguished by a heavy downpour of rain. All the mysterious mechanisms\nof Lo Hsüan lost their efficacy, and the magician took to his heels down the side of the mountain. There he was met by Li,\nthe Pagoda-bearer,1 who threw his golden pagoda into the air. The pagoda fell on Lo Hsüan’s head and broke his skull.\n\n

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Of the various fire-gods, Ch’ih Ching-tzŭ, the principle of spiritual fire, is one of the five spirits representing the Five\nElements. He is Fire personified, which has its birth in the south, on Mount Shih-t’ang. He himself and everything connected\nwith him—his skin, hair, beard, trousers, cloak of leaves, etc. —are all of the colour of fire, though he is sometimes represented\nwith a blue cap resembling the blue tip of a flame. He appeared in the presence of Huang Lao in a fire-cloud.

He it was who\nobtained fire from the wood of the mulberry-tree, and the heat of this fire, joined with the moisture of water, developed\nthe germs of terrestrial beings.

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The most popular God of Fire, however, is Hui Lu, a celebrated magician who, according to the Shên hsien t’ung chien, lived some time before the reign of Ti K’u (2436–2366 B.C.), the father of Yao the Great, and had a Page 239mysterious bird named Pi Fang and a hundred other fire-birds shut up in a gourd. He had only to let them out to set up a conflagration\nwhich would extend over the whole country.\n\n

Huang Ti ordered Chu Jung to fight Hui Lu and also to subdue the rebel Chih Yu. Chu Jung had a large bracelet of pure gold—a\nmost wonderful and effective weapon. He hurled it into the air, and it fell on Hui Lu’s neck, throwing him to the ground and\nrendering him incapable of moving. Finding resistance impossible, he asked mercy from his victor and promised to be his follower\nin the spiritual contests. Subsequently he always called himself Huo-shih Chih T’u, ‘the Disciple of the Master of Fire.’\n\n\n

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Shen Nung, the God of Agriculture, also adds to his other functions those appertaining to the God of Fire, the reason being\nthat when he succeeded the Emperor Fu Hsi on the throne he adopted fire as the emblem of his government, just as Huang Ti\nadopted the symbol of Earth. Thus he came to be called Huo Ti, the ‘Fire-emperor.’ He taught his subjects the use of fire\nfor smelting metals and making implements and weapons, and the use of oil in lamps, etc. All the divisions of his official\nhierarchy were connected in some way with this element; thus, there were the Ministers of Fire generally, the officers of\nFire of the North, South, etc. Becoming thus doubly the patron of fire, a second fire symbol (huo) was added to his name, changing it from Huo Ti, ‘Fire-emperor,’ to Yen Ti, ‘Blazing Emperor,’\nPage 240

1 See Chapter XII.\n

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Chapter IX

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Myths of Epidemics, Medicine, Exorcism, Etc.

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Li Shih-min, having also recovered his health, summoned the five deceased graduates and expressed his regret for the unfortunate\nissue of his design against the T’ien-shih. He proceeded: “To the south of the capital is the temple San-i Ko. I will change\nits name to Hsiang Shan Wu Yüeh Shên, ‘Fragrant Hill of the Five Mountain Spirits.’ On the twenty-eighth day of the ninth\nmoon betake yourselves to that temple to receive the seals of your canonization.” He conferred upon them the title of Ti,\n‘Emperor.’\n\n

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Chapter X

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The Goddess of Mercy

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The message was as follows: “King Miao Chuang has offered sacrifice to me and begged me to grant him an heir. But since by\nhis wars he has caused the deaths of a large number of human beings, he does not deserve to have his request granted. Now\nthese three brothers Shih have offended your Majesty by constraining the brigand Wang Che to be guilty of murder and robbery. I pray you to take into account their past good works and pardon their crime, giving them an opportunity of expiating it by\ncausing them all three to be reborn, but of the female sex, in the womb of Po Ya the Queen. 2 In this way they will be able to atone for their crime and save many souls.

” Yü Huang was pleased to comply, and he ordered\nthe Spirit of the North Pole to release the three captives and take their souls to the palace of King Miao Chuang, where in\nthree years’ time they would be changed into females in the womb of Queen Po Ya.

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No sooner had she finished speaking than a lady of the Court came to announce that the King had found sons-in-law to his liking\nfor his two elder daughters. The wedding-feast was to be the very next day. “Be quick,” she added, “and prepare your presents,\nyour dresses, and so forth, for the King’s order is imperative. ” The husband chosen for Miao Ch’ing was a First Academician\nnamed Chao K’uei. His personal name was Tê Ta, and he was the son of a celebrated minister of the reigning dynasty.

Miao Yin’s\nhusband-elect was a military officer named Ho Fêng, whose personal name was Ch’ao Yang. He had passed first in the examination\nfor the Military Doctorate. The marriage ceremonies were of a magnificent character. Festivity followed festivity; the newly-wed\nwere duly installed in their palaces, and general happiness prevailed.

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At these words the King was mad with rage. “Wicked imbecile!” he cried, “what diabolical suggestions are these that you dare\nto make in my presence?”\n\n

Without further ado he called Ho T’ao, who on that day was officer of the palace guard. When he had arrived and kneeled to\nreceive the King’s commands, the latter said: “This wicked nun dishonours me. Take from her her Court robes, and drive her\nfrom my presence. Take her to the Queen’s garden, and let her perish there of cold: that will be one care less for my troubled heart.”\n\n

Miao Shan fell on her face and thanked the King, and then went with the officer to the Queen’s garden, where she began to\nlead her retired hermit life, with the moon for companion and the wind for friend, content to see all obstacles overthrown\non her way to Nirvāna, the highest state of spiritual bliss, and glad to exchange the pleasures of the palace for the sweetness\nof solitude.\n\n

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Miao Shan joyfully agreed, and proceeded to make her humble submission to the Buddha. She knelt before Ju Lai, and made offering\nto him, praying as follows: “Great Buddha, full of goodness and mercy, your humble servant wishes to leave the world. Grant\nthat I may never yield to the temptations which will be sent to try my faith.” Miao Shan further promised to observe all the\nregulations of the nunnery and to obey the superiors.\n\n

Miao Shan Reaches the Nunnery

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Shan Ts’ai, inconsolable, prayed Heaven and earth to save his protectress. Miao Shan said to him: “You should not have risked\nyour life by throwing yourself over the precipice, I have not yet transformed you. But you did a brave thing, and I know that\nyou have a good heart. Now, look down there. ” “Oh,” said he, “if I mistake not, that is a corpse.

” “Yes,” she replied, “that\nis your former body. Now you are transformed you can rise at will and fly in the air. ” Shan Ts’ai bowed low to thank his benefactress,\nwho said to him: “Henceforth you must say your prayers by my side, and not leave me for a single day.

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Next morning, the two sons-in-law of the King heard of the turn things had taken during the night. The whole palace was in\na state of the greatest confusion.\n\n

When he was informed that the priest had been killed, the King called Ch’u Ting-lieh and ordered him to have the murderer\narrested. Su Ta was put to the torture and confessed all that he knew. Together with Ho Li he was condemned to be cut into\na thousand pieces.\n\n

The two sons-in-law were seized and ordered to instant execution, and it was only on the Queen’s intercession that their wives\nwere spared. The infuriated King, however, ordered that his two daughters should be imprisoned in the palace.\n\n

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Three years later the King and Queen, with the grandees of their Court, set out to visit Hsiang Shan, but on the way the monarchs\nwere captured by the Green Lion, or God of Fire, and the White Elephant, or Spirit of the Water, the two guardians of the\nTemple of Buddha, who transported them to a dark cavern in the mountains. A terrific battle then took place between the evil\nspirits on the one side and some hosts of heavenly genii, who had Page 284been summoned to the rescue, on the other. While its issue was still uncertain, reinforcements under the Red Child Devil,\nwho could resist fire, and the Dragon-king of the Eastern Sea, who could subdue water, finally routed the enemy, and the prisoners\nwere released.\n\n

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Then, in the presence of all, he addressed his Grand Minister Chao Chên, saying: “Your devotion to the service of the State\nhas rendered you worthy to wear the crown: I surrender it to you.” The Court proclaimed Chao Chên King of Hsing Lin, bade\nfarewell to Miao Chuang, and set out for their kingdom accompanied by their new sovereign.\n\n

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Buddha had summoned the White Elephant and the Green Lion, and was on the point of sentencing them to eternal damnation when\nthe compassionate Miao Shan interceded for them. “Certainly you deserve no forgiveness,” he said, “but I cannot refuse a request\nmade by Page 286Miao Shan, whose clemency is without limit. I give you over to her, to serve and obey her in everything. Follow her.”\n\n

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Chapter XI

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The Eight Immortals

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Chapter XII

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The Guardian of the Gate of Heaven

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Li Ching seized his sword and went into his wife’s room, which he found filled with a red light exhaling a most extraordinary\nodour. A ball of flesh was rolling on the floor like a wheel; with a blow of his sword he cut it open, and a babe emerged,\nsurrounded by a halo of red light. Its face was very white, a gold bracelet was on its right wrist, and it wore a pair of\nred silk trousers, from which proceeded rays of dazzling golden light. The bracelet was ‘the horizon of Heaven and earth,’\nand the two precious objects belonged to the cave Chin-kuang Tung of T’ai-i Chên-jên, the priest who had bestowed them upon\nhim when he appeared to his mother during her sleep. The child itself was an avatar of Ling Chu-tzŭ, ‘the Intelligent Pearl.’\n\n\n

On the morrow T’ai-i Chên-jên returned and asked Li Ching’s permission to see the new-born babe. “He shall be called No-cha,”\nhe said, “and will become my disciple.”\n\n

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On his return No-cha found the Four Dragon-kings on the point of carrying off his parents. “It is I,” he Page 314said, “who killed Ao Ping, and I who should pay the penalty. Why are you molesting my parents? I am about to return to them\nwhat I received from them. Will it satisfy you?”\n\n

Lung Wang agreed, whereupon No-cha took a sword, and before their eyes cut off an arm, sliced open his stomach, and fell unconscious.\nHis soul, borne on the wind, went straight to the cave of T’ai-i Chên-jên, while his mother busied herself with burying his\nbody.\n\n

“Your home is not here,” said his master to him; “return to Ch’ên-t’ang Kuan, and beg your mother to build a temple on Ts’ui-p’ing\nShan, forty li farther on. Incense will be burned to you for three years, at the end of which time you will be reincarnated.”\n\n

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During the night, toward the third watch, while his mother was in a deep sleep, No-cha appeared to her in a dream and said:\n“My mother, pity me; since my death, my soul, separated from my body, wanders about without a home. Build me, I pray you,\na temple on Ts’ui-p’ing Shan, that I may be reincarnated.” His mother awoke in tears, and related her vision to Li Ching,\nwho reproached her for her blind attachment to her unnatural son, the cause of so much disaster.\n\n

For five or six nights the son appeared to his mother, each time repeating his request. The last time he added: “Do not forget\nthat by nature I am ferocious; if you refuse my request evil will befall you.”\n\n

His mother then sent builders to the mountain to construct a temple to No-cha, and his image was set up in it. Miracles were\nnot wanting, and the number of pilgrims who visited the shrine increased daily.\nPage 315

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At the time of his father’s visit No-cha was absent from the temple. On his return he found only its smoking remnants. The\nspirits of his two servants ran up lamenting. “Who has demolished my temple? ” he asked.

“Li Ching,” they replied. “In doing\nthis he has exceeded his powers,” said No-cha. “I gave him back the substance I received from him; why did he come with violence\nto break up my image? I will have nothing more to do with him.

No-cha’s soul had already begun to be spiritualised. So he determined to go to T’ai-i Chên-jên and beg for his help. “The\nworship rendered to you there,” replied the Taoist, “had nothing in it which should have offended your father; it did not\nconcern him. He was in the wrong. Before long Chiang Tzŭ-ya will descend to inaugurate the new dynasty, and since you must\nthrow in your lot with him I will find a way to aid you.”\n\n

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T’ai-i Chên-jên had two water-lily stalks and three lotus-leaves brought to him. He spread these on the ground in the form\nof a human being and placed the soul of No-cha in this lotus skeleton, uttering magic incantations the while. There emerged\na new No-cha full of life, with a fresh complexion, purple lips, keen glance, and sixteen feet of height. “Follow me to my\npeach-garden,” said T’ai-i Chên-jên, “and I will give you your weapons. ” He handed him a fiery spear, very sharp, and two\nwind-and-fire Page 317wheels which, placed under his feet, served as a Vehicle.

A brick of gold in a panther-skin bag completed his magic armament. The new warrior, after thanking his master, mounted his wind-and-fire wheels and returned to Ch’ên-t’ang Kuan.

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Chapter XIII

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A Battle of the Gods

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The Fêng shên yen i describes at length how, during the wars which preceded the accession of the Chou dynasty in 1122 B. C. , a multitude of demigods,\nBuddhas, Immortals, etc. , took part on one side or the other, some fighting for the old, some for the new dynasty. They were\nwonderful creatures, gifted with marvellous powers.

They could at will change their form, multiply their heads and limbs,\nbecome invisible, and create, by merely uttering a word, terrible monsters who bit and destroyed, or sent forth poison gases,\nor emitted flames from their nostrils. In these battles there is much lightning, thunder, flight of fire-dragons, dark clouds\nwhich vomit burning hails of murderous weapons; swords, spears, and arrows fall from the sky on to the heads of the combatants;\nthe earth trembles, the pillars of Heaven shake.

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One of these gifted warriors was Chun T’i, a Taoist of the Western Paradise, who appeared on the scene when the armies of\nthe rival dynasties were facing each other. K’ung Hsüan was gallantly holding the pass of the Chin-chi Ling; Chiang Tzŭ-ya\nwas trying to take it by assault—so far without success.\n\n

Chun T’i’s mission was to take K’ung Hsüan to the abode of the blest, his wisdom and general progress having now reached the\nrequired degree of perfection. This was a means of breaking down the invincible resistance of this powerful enemy and at the\nsame time of rewarding his brilliant talents.\nPage 321

But K’ung Hsüan did not approve of this plan, and a fight took place between the two champions. At one moment Chun T’i was\nseized by a luminous bow and carried into the air, but while enveloped in a cloud of fire he appeared with eighteen arms and\ntwenty-four heads, holding in each hand a powerful talisman.\n\n

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He put a silk cord round K’ung Hsüan’s neck, touched him with his wand, and forced him to reassume his original form of a\nred one-eyed peacock. Chun T’i seated himself on the peacock’s back, and it flew across the sky, bearing its saviour and master\nto the Western Paradise. Brilliantly variegated clouds marked its track through space.\n\n

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On the disappearance of its defender the defile of Chin-chi Ling was captured, and the village of Chieh-p’ai Kuan, the bulwark\nof the enemy’s forces, reached. This place was defended by a host of genii and Immortals, the most distinguished among them\nbeing the Taoist T’ung-t’ien Chiao-chu, whose specially effective charms had so far kept the fort secure against every attempt\nupon it.\n\n

Lao Tzŭ himself had deigned to descend from dwelling in happiness, together with Yüan-shih T’ien-tsun and Chieh-yin Tao-jên,\nto take part in the siege. But the town had four gates, and these heavenly rulers were only three in number. So Chun T’i was\nrecalled, and each member of the quartette was entrusted with the task of capturing one of the gates.\nPage 322

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Chun T’i’s duty was to take the Chüeh-hsien Mên, defended by T’ung-t’ien Chiao-chu. The warriors who had tried to enter the\ntown by this gate had one and all paid for their temerity with their lives. The moment each had crossed the threshold a clap\nof thunder had resounded, and a mysterious sword, moving with lightning rapidity, had slain him.\n\n

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Mad with rage, Wu Yün seized his club and tried to fell his enemy. But Chun T’i summoned a disciple, who appeared with a bamboo\npole. This he thrust out like a fishing-rod, and on a hook at the end of the line attached to the pole dangled a large golden-bearded\nturtle. This was the Immortal Wu Yün, now in his original form of a spiritual turtle. The disciple seated himself on its back,\nand both, disappearing into space, returned to the Western Heavens.\n\n

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To conquer T’ung-t’ien Chiao-chu was more difficult, but after a long fight Chun T’i waved his Wand of the Seven Treasures\nand broke his adversary’s sword. The latter, disarmed and vanquished, disappeared in a cloud of dust. Chun T’i did not trouble\nto pursue him. The battle was won.\n\n

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A disciple of T’ung-t’ien Chiao-chu, P’i-lu Hsien, ‘the Immortal P’i-lu,’ seeing his master beaten in two successive engagements,\nleft the battlefield and followed Chun T’i to the Western Paradise, to become a Buddha. He is known as P’i-lu Fo, one of the\nprincipal gods of Buddhism.\n\n

Chun T’i’s festival is celebrated on the sixth day of the third moon. He is generally shown with eight hands and three faces,\none of the latter being that of a pig.\nPage 325

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Chapter XIV

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How the Monkey Became a God

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In order to keep him occupied, Sun was appointed Grand Master of the Heavenly Stables, and was entrusted with the feeding\nof Yü Huang’s horses; his official celestial title being Pi-ma Wên. Later on, learning the object of the creation of this\nderisory appointment, he overturned the Master’s throne, seized his staff, broke down the South Gate of Heaven, and descended\non a cloud to Hua-kuo Shan.\n\n

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Yü Huang in great indignation organized a siege of Hua-kuo Shan, but the Kings of Heaven and the generals with their celestial\narmies were repulsed several times. Sun now arrogated to himself the pompous title of Grand Saint, Governor of Heaven. He\nhad this emblazoned on his banners, and threatened Yü Huang that he would carry destruction into his kingdom if he refused\nto Page 330recognize his new dignity. Yü Huang, alarmed at the result of the military operations, agreed to the condition laid down by\nSun. The latter was then appointed Grand Superintendent of the Heavenly Peach-garden, the fruit of which conferred immortality,\nand a new palace was built for him.\n\n

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Thus subdued, Sun would not have been able to get out of his stone prison but for the intercession of Kuan Yin P’u-sa, who\nobtained his release on his solemn promise that he would serve as guide, philosopher, and friend to Hsüan Chuang, the priest\nwho was to undertake the difficult journey of 108,000 li to the Western Heaven. This promise, on the whole, he fulfilled in the service of Hsüan Chuang during the fourteen years\nof the long journey. Now faithful, now restive and undisciplined, he was always the one to triumph in the end over the eighty-one\nfantastical tribulations which beset them as they journeyed.\nPage 334

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One of the principal of Sun’s fellow-servants of the Master was Sha Ho-shang.\n\n

He is depicted wearing a necklace of skulls, the heads of the nine Chinese deputies sent in former centuries to find the Buddhist\ncanon, but whom Sha Ho-shang had devoured on the banks of Liu-sha River when they had attempted to cross it.\n\n

He is also known by the name of Sha Wu-ching, and was originally Grand Superintendent of the Manufactory of Stores for Yü\nHuang’s palace. During a great banquet given on the Peach Festival to all the gods and Immortals of the Chinese Olympus he\nlet fall a crystal bowl, which was smashed to atoms. Yü Huang caused him to be beaten with eight hundred blows, drove him\nout of Heaven, and exiled him to earth. He lived on the banks of the Liu-sha Ho, where every seventh day a mysterious sword\nappeared and wounded him in the neck. Having no other means of subsistence, he used to devour the passers-by.\n\n

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When Kuan Yin passed through that region on her way to China to find the priest who was predestined to devote himself to the\nlaborious undertaking of the quest of the sacred Buddhist books, Sha Ho-shang threw himself on his knees before her and begged\nher to put an end to all his woes.\n\n

The goddess promised that he should be delivered by the priest, her envoy, provided he would engage himself in the service\nof the pilgrim. On his promising to do this, and to lead a better life, she herself ordained him priest. In the end it came\nabout that Hsüan Chuang, when passing the Sha Ho, took him into his suite as coolie to carry Page 335his baggage. Yü Huang pardoned him in consideration of the service he was rendering to the Buddhist cause.\n\n

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The origin of this priest was as follows: In the reign of the Emperor T’ai Tsung of the T’ang dynasty, Ch’ên Kuang-jui, a\ngraduate of Hai Chou, in his examination for the doctor’s degree came out as chuang yüan, first on the list. Wên Chiao (also named Man-t’ang Chiao), the daughter of the minister Yin K’ai-shan, meeting the young\nacademician, fell in love with him, and married him. Several days after the wedding the Emperor appointed Ch’ên Kuang-jui\nGovernor of Chiang Chou (modern Chên-chiang Fu), in Kiangsu. After a short visit to his native town he started to take up\nhis post. His old mother and his wife accompanied him.

When they reached Hung Chou his mother fell sick and they were forced\nto stay for a time at the Inn of Ten Thousand Flowers, kept by one Liu Hsiao-êrh. Days passed; the sickness did not leave\nher, and as the time for her son to take over the seals of office was drawing near, he had to proceed without her.

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Before his departure he noticed a fisherman holding in his hand a fine carp; this he bought for a small sum to give to his\nmother. Suddenly he noticed that the fish had a very extraordinary look, and, changing his mind, he let it go in the waters\nof the Hung Chiang, afterward telling his mother what he had done. She congratulated him on his action, and assured him that\nthe good deed would not go unrewarded.\n\n

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The following day a report was presented to the Emperor, who gave orders for the immediate arrest and execution of the murderer\nof Ch’ên Kuang-jui.\n\n

Yin K’ai-shan went with all haste to Chên-chiang, where he arrived during the night, surrounded the official residence, and\nseized the culprit, whom he sent to the place where he had committed the murder. His heart and liver were torn out and sacrificed\nto the victim.\n\n

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It is natural to expect that numberless exciting adventures should befall such an interesting quartette, and indeed the Hsi yu chi, which contains a hundred chapters, is full of them. The pilgrims encountered eighty difficulties on the journey out and\none on the journey home. The following examples are characteristic of the rest.\n\n

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By the autumn the travellers arrived at a great mountain. They saw on the road a red cloud which the Monkey thought must be\na demon. It was in fact a demon child who, in order to entrap the Master, had had himself bound and tied to the branch of\na tree. The child repeatedly cried out to the passers-by to deliver him. Sun suspected that it was a trick; but the Master\ncould no longer endure the pitiful wails; he ordered his disciples to loose the child, and the Monkey to carry him.\n\n

As they proceeded on their way the Demon caused a strong whirlwind to spring up, and during this he carried off the Master.\nSun discovered that the Demon was an old friend of his, who, centuries before, had pledged himself to eternal friendship.\nSo he consoled his comrades by saying that he felt sure no harm would come to the Master.\n\n

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They replied: “A great number have died. At one time we numbered more than two thousand. But through deaths and suicides there\nnow remain only about five hundred. And we who remain cannot die. Ropes cannot strangle us, swords cannot cut us; if we plunge\ninto the river we cannot sink; poison does not kill us.

” Sun said: “Then you are fortunate, for you are all Immortals. ” “Alas! ”\nsaid they, “we are immortal only for suffering. We get poor food. We have only sand to sleep on.

But in the night hours spirits\nappear to us and tell us not to kill ourselves, for an Arhat will come from the East to deliver us. With him there Page 355is a disciple, the Great Holy One, the Equal of Heaven, most powerful and tender-hearted. He will put an end to these Taoists\nand have pity on us Buddhists.

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Inwardly Sun was glad that his fame had gone abroad. Returning to the city, he met the two chief Taoists. They asked him if\nhe had found his relative. “Yes,” he replied, “they are all my relatives! ” They smiled and said: “How is it that you have\nso many relatives?

” Sun said: “One hundred are my father’s relatives, one hundred my mother’s relatives, and the remainder\nmy adopted relatives. If you will let all these priests depart with me, then I will enter the city with you; otherwise I will\nnot enter. ” “You must be mad to speak to us in this way. The priests were given us by the King. If you had asked for a few\nonly, we might have consented, but your request is altogether unreasonable.

” Sun then asked them three times if they would\nliberate the priests. When they finally refused, he grew very angry, took his magic spear from his ear and brandished it in\nthe air, when all their heads fell off and rolled on the ground.

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The Ancient of Days mounted a cloud and went with Sun to the cave. When the Demon saw who had come he was terrified. The Ancient\nof Days then recited an incantation, and the Demon surrendered the magic coil Page 359to him. On the recitation of a second incantation all his strength left him, and he appeared as a bull, and was led away by\na ring in his nose. The Master and his disciples were then set at liberty, and proceeded on their journey.\n\n

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The Ox-demon being of so fierce and terrible a nature, both Buddha in Heaven and the Taoist Celestial Ruler sent down whole\nlegions of celebrated warriors to help the Master’s servant. The Ox-demon tried to escape in every direction, one after the\nother, but his efforts were in vain. Finally defeated, he was made to promise for himself and his wife to give up their evil\nways and to follow the holy precepts of the Buddhist doctrine.\n\n

The Magic Fan was given to Sun, who at once proceeded to test its powers. When he waved it once the fires on Flaming Mountain\ndied out. When he waved it a second time a gentle breeze sprang up. When he waved it a third time refreshing rain fell everywhere,\nand the pilgrims proceeded on their way in comfort.\n\n

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Then seven of the women went out to bathe in a pool. There Sun, in search of his Master, found them and would have killed\nthem, only he thought it was not right to kill women. So he changed himself into an eagle and carried away their clothes to\nhis nest. This so frightened the women that they crouched in the pool and did not dare to come out.\n\n

But Pa-chieh, also in search of his Master, found the women bathing. He changed himself into a fish, which the women tried\nto catch, chasing him hither and thither round the pool. After a while Pa-chieh leapt out of the pool and, appearing in his\ntrue form, threatened the women for having bound his Master. In their fright the women fled to a pavilion, round which they\nspun spiders’ threads so thickly that Pa-chieh became entangled and fell. They then escaped to their cave and put on some\nclothes.\n\n

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When Pa-chieh at length had disentangled himself from the webs, he saw Sun and Sha Ho-shang approaching. Having learnt what\nhad happened, they feared the women might do some injury to the Master, so they ran to the cave to rescue him. On the way\nthey were beset by the seven dwarf sons of the seven women, who transformed themselves into a swarm of dragon-flies, bees,\nand other insects. But Sun pulled out some hairs and, changing them into Page 364seven different swarms of flying insects, destroyed the hostile swarm, and the ground was covered a foot deep with the dead\nbodies. On reaching the cave, the pilgrims found it had been deserted by the women.

They released the Master, and made him\npromise never to beg for food again. Having given the promise, he mounted his horse, and they proceeded on their journey.

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Chapter XV

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Fox Legends

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Many interesting fox legends are to be found in a collection of stories entitled Liao chai chih i, by P’u Sung-ling (seventeenth century A. D. ), part of which was translated Page 371into English many years ago by Professor H. A. Giles and appeared in two fascinating volumes called Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio.

These legends were related to the Chinese writer by various people as their own experiences.

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Chapter XVI

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Miscellaneous Legends

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The Shan hai ching, or Hill and River Classic, contains descriptions of some curious people supposed to inhabit the regions on the maps represented on the nine tripod\nvases of the Great Yü, first emperor of the Hsia dynasty.\n\n

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In the Country of the Giants the people are fifty feet in height. Their footprints are six feet in length. Their teeth are\nlike those of a saw. Their finger-nails present the appearance of hooked claws, while their diet consists wholly of uncooked\nanimal food. Their eyebrows are of such length as to protrude from the front of the carts in which they ride, large though\nit is necessary for these vehicles to be.

Their bodies are covered with long black hair resembling that of the bear. They\nlive to the advanced age of eighteen thousand years. Though cannibals, they never eat members of their own tribe, confining\ntheir indulgence in human flesh chiefly to enemies taken in battle. Their country extends some thousands of miles along certain\nmountain ranges in North-eastern Asia, in the passes of which they have strong iron gates, easy to close, but difficult to\nopen; hence, though their neighbours maintain large standing armies, they have thus far never been conquered.

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In the Mountains of the Sun and Moon, which are in the Centre of the Great Waste, are the people who have no arms, but whose\nlegs instead grow out of their shoulders. They pick flowers with their toes. They bow by raising the body horizontal with\nthe shoulders, thus turning the face to the ground.\n\n

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The Feathered People are very tall, and are covered with fluffy down. They have wings in place of arms, and can fly short\ndistances. On the points of the wings are claws, which serve as hands. Their noses are like beaks. Gentle and timid, they\ndo not leave their own country.

They have good voices, and like to sing ballads. If one wishes to visit this people he must\ngo far to the south-east and then inquire. There is also the Land of the People with Three Faces, who live in the centre of\nthe Great Waste and never die; the Land of the Three-heads, east of the K’un-lun Mountains; the Three-body Country, the inhabitants\nof which have one head with three bodies, three arms and but two legs; and yet another where the people have square heads,\nbroad shoulders, and three legs, and the stones on the land are all gold and jade.

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Another community is said to be composed of people who have holes through their chests. They can be carried about on a pole\nput through the orifice, or may be comfortably hung upon a peg. They sometimes string themselves on a rope, and thus walk\nout in file. They are harmless people, and eat snakes that they kill with bows and arrows, and they are very long-lived.\n\n

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The Women’s Kingdom, the country inhabited exclusively by women, is said to be surrounded by a sea of less density than ordinary\nwater, so that ships sink on approaching the shores. It has been reached only by Page 391boats carried thither in whirlwinds, and but few of those wrecked on its rocks have survived and returned to tell of its wonders.\nThe women have houses, gardens, and shops. Instead of money they use gems, perforated and strung like beads. They reproduce\ntheir kind by sleeping where the south wind blows upon them.\n\n

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Situated to the north of the Plain of Great Joy, the Land of the Flying Cart joins the Country of the One-armed People on\nthe south-west and that of the Three-bodied People on the south-east. The inhabitants have but one arm, and an additional\neye of large size in the centre of the forehead, making three eyes in all. Their carts, though wheeled, do not run along the\nground, but chase each other in mid-air as gracefully as a flock of swallows. The vehicles have a kind of winged framework\nat each end, and the one-armed occupants, each grasping a flag, talk and laugh one to another in great glee during what might\nbe called their aerial recreation were it not for the fact that it seems to be their sole occupation.\n\n

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The people on Ô-mei Shan tell of a wonderful kind of snake that is said to live there. Part of its life is spent among the\nbranches of the trees; if by chance it falls to the ground it breaks up into two or more pieces. These separate segments later\non come together again and unite.\n\n

Many other marvellous and interesting tales are related of this mountain and its inhabitants.\nPage 394

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At this time Ch’un-yü had not seen Chou-pien and Tzŭ-hua for some ten days. He sent a messenger to make inquiries about them,\nand the news he brought back was that Chou-pien was dead and Tzŭ-hua lying ill. The fleeting nature of man’s existence revealed\nitself to him as he recalled the greatness of these two men in the ant-world. From that day he became a reformed man; drink\nand dissipation were put aside. After three years had elapsed he died, thus giving effect to the promise of the ant-king that\nhe should see his children once more at the end of three years.\n\n

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In early times the Chief of a Chinese tribe (another version says an Emperor of China) was at war with the Chief of another\ntribe who came to attack his territory from the west. The Western Chief so badly defeated the Chinese army that none of the\ngenerals or soldiers could be induced to renew hostilities and endeavour to drive the enemy back to his own country. This\ndistressed the Chinese Chief very much. As a last resort he issued a proclamation promising his daughter in marriage to anyone\nwho would bring him the head of his enemy, the Chief of the West.\n\n

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The people in the palace talked much of this promise made by the Chief, and their conversation was listened to by a fine large\nwhite dog belonging to one of the generals. This dog, having pondered the matter well, waited until Page 421midnight and then stole over to the tent of the enemy Chief. The latter, as well as his guard, was asleep; or, if the guard\nwas not, the dog succeeded in avoiding him in the darkness. Entering the tent, the dog gnawed through the Chief’s neck and\ncarried his head off in his mouth. At dawn he placed it at the Chinese Chief’s feet, and waited for his reward.

The Chief\nwas soon able to verify the fact that his enemy had been slain, for the headless body had caused so much consternation in\nthe hostile army that it had already begun to retreat from Chinese territory.

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The dog then reminded the Chief of his promise, and asked for his daughter’s hand in marriage. “But how,” said the Chief,\n“can I possibly marry my daughter to a dog?” “Well,” replied the dog, “will you agree to her marrying me if I change myself\ninto a man?” This seemed a safe promise to make, and the Chief agreed. The dog then stipulated that he should be placed under\na large bell and that no one should move it or look into it for a space of 280 days.\n\n

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This was done, and for 279 days the bell remained unmoved, but on the 280th day the Chief could restrain his curiosity no\nlonger, and tilting up the bell saw that the dog had changed into a man all except his head, the last day being required to\ncomplete the transformation. However, the spell was now broken, and the result was a man with a dog’s head. Since it was the\nChief’s fault that, through his over-inquisitiveness, the dog could not become altogether a man, he was obliged to keep his\npromise, and Page 422the wedding duly took place, the bridegroom’s head being veiled for the occasion by a red mantilla.\n\n

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Unfortunately the fruit of the union took more after their father than their mother, and though comely of limb had exceedingly\nugly features.2 They were therefore obliged to continue to wear the head-covering adopted by their father at the marriage ceremony, and this\nbecame so much an integral part of the tribal costume that not only has it been worn ever since by their descendants, but\na change of headgear has become synonymous with a change of husbands or a divorce. One account says that at the original bridal\nceremony the bride wore the red mantilla to prevent her seeing her husband’s ugly features, and that is why the headdress\nis worn by the women and not by the men, or more generally by the former than the latter, though others say that it was originally\nworn by the ugly children of both sexes.\n\n

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This legend explains the dog-worship of the Jung tribe, which now consists of four clans, with a separate surname (Lei, Chung,\nLang, and Pan) to each, has a language of its own, and does not intermarry with the Foochow natives. At about the time of\nthe old Chinese New Year (somewhere in February) they paint a large figure of a dog on a screen and worship it, saying it\nis their ancestor who was victorious over the Western invader.\nPage 423

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Glossary & Index

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The correct pronunciation of the sound (yin) is not sufficient to make a Chinese spoken word intelligible. Unless the tone (shêng), or musical note, is simultaneously correctly given, either the wrong meaning or no meaning at all will be conveyed. The\ntone is the key in which the voice is pitched. Accent is a ‘song added to,’ and tone is emphasized accent. The number of these\ntones differs in the different dialects.

In Pekingese there are now four.

pa (1) pa (2) pa (3) pa (4)\n

\n\n

To say, for example, pa (3) instead of pa (1) would be as great a mistake as to say ‘grasp’ instead of ‘trumpet.’ Correctness of tone cannot be learnt except by oral\ninstruction.\n\n

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What tone is to the individual sound rhythm is to the sentence. This also, together with proper appreciation of the mutual\nmodifications of tone and rhythm, can be correctly acquired only by oral instruction.\n\n\n\n\n

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Creation. Mo Tzŭ and, 89–90;\nMiao legends of the, 406 sq.\n\n

Crops. Kinds raised, 50;\nGods of the, 165\n\n

Cursed Temple. Legend of the, 398 sq.\n\n

Cycle-gods, 177\n\n\n

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Queue, 39, 58\n\n\n

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Umbrellas, The Magic, 241–242\n\n

Unicorn. K’uei niu 133\n\n

Unicorn Precipice, The, 154, 155\n\n

Unity, The Great. First of the celestial spirits, 142–143\n\n

Unnatural People, 386 sq.\n\n\n

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Vairotchana. Dharma, the highest of the Three Embodiments (Triratna), representing Purity;\nChinese P’i-lu Fo, 120\nPage 452

Vajrâpani. God of Thunder. See Lei Kung\n\n

Vega. Star;\nlegend of Aquila and, 189 sq.\n\n

Vihârapâla. See Wei-t’o\n\n\n

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