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INDEX OF SUBJECTS.

A.

• Acupuncture [OMITTED], 377.

• Alternation of nature and culture,
  prosperity and decay, 474.

• Amulets and charms [OMITTED],
  boys wear jade-stones, girls pearls,
  505.

• Ancestral tablet [OMITTED] of wood, one
  foot two inches long, 536.

• Ancient characters [OMITTED], 448, 455.

• Angels, informing the Spirit of Heaven
  of human misdeeds, 291,

  • a fallen
    angel [OMITTED], 341.

• Animals, are creatures like man, 280,

  • the killing of animals is wicked, eod.

• Anthroposcopy and physiognomy
  [OMITTED], Chap. XXIV.

• Anti-alcoholic memorial, 88.

• Antidotes, how given, 158.

• Antiquarians know how to determine
  the age of old swords, 345.

• Antiquity, overestimated by scholars
  and artists, 476.

• Apparitions [OMITTED], either ghosts
  shaped like men, or men behaving
  like ghosts, 232, 244.

• Army [OMITTED], 4,000 men, divided into
  2 divisions [OMITTED].

• Ascension to heaven by the soul, 228,

  • of Huang Ti, 332,

  • of Huai Nan Tse,
    335.

• Auspicious grain [OMITTED], 323, 366.

B.

• Ballista [OMITTED], of ten stones, 498,

  • pulled
    with a windlass [OMITTED], 503.

• Beauty, engendered by a magical
  force, vicious and depraved, 302.

• Bird [OMITTED], star, 118.

• Births, supernatural, 318, 464.

• Black Tortoise [OMITTED], the northern
  quadrant of solar mansions, 106.

• Blue Dragon [OMITTED], the eastern
  quadrant of solar mansions, 106, 534.

• Bronze vase of the year 669 b.c.
  with inscription, 344.

• Burning glasses [OMITTED], 378.

• Burning of the Books by Ch`in
  Shih Huang Ti, 204, 447, 449, 490.

C.

• Cannibalism, in times of dearth, 170.

• Ceremonies originate from a want
  of loyalty, 100.

• Chance [OMITTED], definition, 142,

  • Chap. X.

• Chaos [OMITTED], 252.

• Character [OMITTED] and natural gifts [OMITTED]
  determine human intelligence and
  conduct, 145,

  • Chap. XXXI, transformed
    by instruction and the influence
    of virtue, 380,

  • depend on
    the quantity of the original fluid, 381.

• Chin (kin) [OMITTED], old coins, 132, 146,
  365, 377, 433.

• Chopsticks [OMITTED], of ivory considered
  a great luxury under the Shang
  dynasty, 354.

• Chronicle of Yü [OMITTED] Yüpen-chi,
  254.

• Commerce resorted to by lazy agriculturists,
  170.

• Contingencies [OMITTED], definition, 142,

  • contingencies and chance agree or
    disagree with destiny, 123.

• Cook, in Sung, famous for butchery,
  239.

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• Cow, may give birth to a horse, 102.

• Creation, 252.

• Cricket and chrysalis no emblem of
  immortality, 122.

• Cries of a new-born child indicative
  of the length of its life, 314.

• Cross-bow [OMITTED], 251, 266, 533.

D.

• Days and nights, their different
  lengths how caused, 259.

• Death [OMITTED], Chap. XV, death the correlate
  of birth, 349.

• Destiny [OMITTED], Chap. VIII and IX,
  destiny of a State stronger than
  that of individuals, 137,

  • connected
    with the stars, eod.,

  • natural [OMITTED],
    concomitant [OMITTED], adverse [OMITTED], 138,

  • received at the time of conception,
    139,

  • does not agree with natural
    disposition, good or bad character,
    eod. determines life and death, rank
    and wealth, 144,

  • not influenced by
    virtue or knowledge, eod., natural destiny
    according to Mencius' view, 431,

  • destiny depends on Heaven, 526.

• Dipper [OMITTED], constellation, 275, 450.

• Diseases have natural causes, 528.

• Distance, its effect on vision, 261,
  266, 274.

• Divination [OMITTED], Chap. XIV, by
  tortoise shell and milfoil, 182,

  • by
    shells and by diagrams, 526.

• Dragon [OMITTED], attracts the clouds and
  the rain, 279, 356,

  • fetched by Heaven
    during a tempest, 285, 351,

  • rising to
    heaven 293,

  • an auspicious animal,
    323,

  • a reptile that undergoes transformations,
    327,

  • Chap. XXIX, lives
    in the water, 351,

  • like fish and
    reptiles, 352,

  • represented with a
    horse's head and a snake's tail, 353,

  • mounts the clouds, and is like earthworms
    and ants, eod., reptiles that
    can be domesticated and eaten, 354,

  • not intelligent, eod.,

  • dragon liver and
    unborn leopard, eod.,

  • the dragon
    rides on the clouds, 357,

  • contracts
    and expands its body, can become
    visible and invisible, 358,

  • can transform
    itself, eod.

• Dragon Star [OMITTED], 520.

• Dreams and visions [OMITTED], their nature
  doubtful, 200, 215,

  • direct dreams,
    228,

  • interpretation of dreams, 189.

• Dwarfs, used as actors, 473.

E.

• Eagles transformed into pigeons and
  vice versa, 368.

• Earth [OMITTED], has a body like man,
  183,

  • size of its area, 256,

  • does not
    move, 267,

  • high in the north-west
    and low in the south-east, 268.

• Earth-quake, predicted, 112, 127.

• Eclipse [OMITTED], how caused 269 seq.,

• Eight Diagrams [OMITTED], invented
  by Fu Hsi, expanded by Wên Wang,
  87, 454, 474.

• Elixir of life [OMITTED], made of
  gold and gems, drunk by Taoists, 339.

• Emperors, their investiture by
  Heaven, 132, 133.

• Energy, human, doubled by fear, 498.

• Equanimity of the wise who placidly
  await their fate, 145, 149.

• Equinoxes, vernal and autumnal
  [OMITTED], 259, 265.

• Exaggerations, why people are
  fond of them, 85.

• Executions are wicked, 280.

• Exorcism [OMITTED], Chap. XLIV.

F.

• Fate see Destiny, 130,

  • becomes the
    mind internally and the body externally,
    131,

  • is obtained spontaneously,
    not by any effort, 150,

  • fate
    of long life, 313, 402.

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• Felicitous plant [OMITTED], 366.

• Fever [OMITTED] cured with pills causing
  perspiration, 282.

• Fifteen dynasties [OMITTED] at
  the beginning of history, 90.

• Fifth month child supposed to kill
  its parents, 161.

• Fishes and birds are related, both
  can fly and are oviparous, 300,

  • fishes and turtles are metamorphosed
    from snakes and reptiles, 326, 368.

• Five Birds [OMITTED]. 372.

• Five Canons (Classics) [OMITTED]:—
  Yiking, Shiking, Shuking, Liki, and
  Ch`un-ch`iu, 86, 447, 449, 490.

• Five Elements [OMITTED]:—metal,
  wood, water, fire, and earth, 104,
  201, 272.

• Five Emperors and Three Rulers
  [OMITTED]:—Huang Ti, Chuan
  Hsü, K`u, Yao, Shun, and Yü, T`ang,
  and Wên Wang, 76, 81, 101, 138,
  324, 332, 334, 359, 372, 405, 464,
  467, 484, 511.

• Five Grains [OMITTED]:—hemp, millet,
  rice, wheat, and beans, 381, 517.

• Five Lakes [OMITTED] = T`ai-hu in
  Kiangsu, 380.

• Five Leading Princes [OMITTED]:—
  Duke Huan of Ch`i, Duke Wên of
  Chin, Duke Hsiang of Sung, Duke
  Chuang of Ch`u, and Duke Mu of
  Ch`in, 74, 101.

• Five Mountains [OMITTED], sacred:—
  T`ai-shan, Hêng-shan, Hua-shan, Hêng-shan,
  and Sung-shan, 251.

• Five Organs (intestines) [OMITTED]:—

  • the heart, the liver, the stomach,
    the lungs, and the kidneys, 105,
    195,

  • the necessary substratum of
    the Five Virtues, 195, 381,

  • regulating
    the Vital Fluid, 496.

• Five Planetary Emperors [OMITTED],
  234.

• Five Planets [OMITTED]:—

  • Venus, Jupiter,
    Mercury, Mars, and Saturn,
    271,

  • are made of the substance of
    the Five Elements, 276.

• Five Qualities [OMITTED]:—benevolence,
  justice, propriety, knowledge,
  and truth, 381, 390.

• Five Sacrifices [OMITTED] of the
  house, the outer and inner doors,
  the well, the hearth, and the inner
  court, 510, 516.

  • Five Sacrifices of
    the Princes, 519.

• Five State Robes [OMITTED], worn
  under the reign of the emperor Yü,
  490.

• Five Time Keepers [OMITTED] of the
  Shuking:—

  • the year, month, day,
    stars, and dates of calendar, 452.

• Five Virtues see Five Qualities, 105,
  194, 474.

• Flatulence, its causes, 295.

• Fluid see Vital Fluid and Primogenial
  Fluid.

• Fluid-eaters [OMITTED], Taoists
  living on air to obtain immortality,
  348.

• Flying fish, 357.

• Fortune-tellers [OMITTED] and their
  methods, Chap. XXIV.

• Founders melting metal, 294.

• Four classes of the disciples of
  Confucius [OMITTED], 376.

• Four Grey Beards [OMITTED], recluses
  at the beginning of the Han
  epoch, 437.

• Four Quadrants (Constellations)
  [OMITTED]:—Blue Dragon, White Tiger,
  Scarlet Bird, and Black Tortoise,
  353.

• Four Seas and Four Mountains [OMITTED]
  [OMITTED] forming the limits of
  ancient China, 253.

• Frogs become quails, 326, 336, 368.

G.

• Gems and pearls, made artificially
  by the Taoists, 378.

• Genii [OMITTED], represented with feathers
  and wings, 293, 330,

  • so light that
    they can fly like wild geese, 252.

• Geomancers [OMITTED], 531.

• Ghosts [OMITTED], diffuse and invisible,
  191,

  • the dead do not become ghosts
    and have no consciousness, eod.;

  • a name of the passive principle,
    eod.;

  • ghosts are not the essence of
    the dead, 192 seq.; Chap. XVIII,
    ghosts are visions of sick people,
    239, 240,

  • apparitions of the fluid
    of sickness, 240,

  • seen by madmen,
    eod., made of the stary fluid, 241,

  • ghosts the essence of old creatures,
    241,

  • ghosts living in men, eod.,

  • the
    spirits of cyclical signs, 242,

  • creatures
    like men:—flying corpses [OMITTED]
    [OMITTED], crawling demons [OMITTED], goblins
    [OMITTED], devils [OMITTED], 243,

  • kingdom
    of the Ghosts [OMITTED], eod.,

  • wicked
    ghosts [OMITTED], eod.,

  • ghosts apparitions
    in human shape, 244,

  • are the
    Yang fluid, therefore red, burning
    and able to abscond, 246,

  • know
    what is secret, 291,

  • devils are supernatural
    apparitions produced by
    the sun, 299,

  • ghosts are burning
    poison and have a red colour, 299,

  • ghosts and spirits more ethereal
    than immortals, 524,

  • insensible of
    joy and anger, eod.,

  • expulsion of
    ghosts, 532,

  • sick people see ghosts,
    533.

• Ghost of Fever [OMITTED], son of
  Chuan Hsü, 242, 534.

• God [OMITTED] = Shang Ti, 134, 162,
  203;

  • a public spirit, who does not
    trouble about private grievances,
    204; 223, 227, 321, 328, 355.

• Golden Age, its praise unfounded,
  471 seq.

• Government, must be based on
  virtue, not on criminal law, 441,

  • by
    not governing, 95.

• Grand Annalist [OMITTED] = Sse
  Ma Ch`ien, the author of the Shi-chi,
  86, 96, 111, 115, 148, 153, 167,
  168, 254, 332, 345, 462, 463, 464.

• Great Diviner of Ch`i [OMITTED]
  = Yen Tse, 112, 159.

• Great Wall, constructed by Mêng
  T`ien, 167.

• Green Dragon see Blue Dragon, 301.

H.

• Halo (aureole) [OMITTED], 173, 178.

• Happiness [OMITTED] and fortune [OMITTED] not
  connected with wisdom and intelligence,
  145,

  • Chap. XI and XII, not
    given by Heaven as a reward, 156.

• Hare [OMITTED], in the moon, 268,

  • conceives
    by licking the pubescence of
    plants, and the leveret issues from
    its mouth, 319.

• Heart [OMITTED], governs the members
  and the senses and is not governed
  by them 111,

  • constellation, 118, 127,
    230.

• Hearth [OMITTED], sacrifice to, 343,

  • God
    of the Hearth, 519.

• Heat and cold [OMITTED], Chap. XXI,
  not influenced by the sovereign, 278,

  • coinciding with joy and anger, 288.

• Heaven [OMITTED], emits its fluid everywhere,
  but acts spontaneously, 92,

  • has neither mouth nor eyes, eod.,

  • its
    fluid is:—placid, tranquil, desireless,
    inactive, and unbusied [OMITTED]
    [OMITTED], 93,

  • its principle
    spontaneity, 95,

  • and inactive, 99,

  • does not speak nor act, 101,

  • reprimands
    contrary to its nature, 102,

  • affects things, but is not affected by
    

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    them, 109,

  • is the master of man and
    things, eod. and 111,

  • its fluid forms
    the shapeless empyrean. 113,

  • not
    moved by the sighs of ten thousand
    people, eod.,

  • does not reprimand a
    sovereign, nor kill malefactors, 126,

  • Heaven's spontaneity and inaction
    preclude wisdom and sensations,
    127,

  • Heaven does not speak, 128,

  • the
    words of the wise are the words
    of Heaven, eod.,

  • anthropomorphisms
    of the Shiking and the Shuking, eod.;

  • the heart of Heaven in the bosom
    of the Sages, 129,

  • Heaven's decree,
    130, 132, 408,

  • Heaven is spontaneous,
    133,

  • human qualities ascribed
    to it, 134,

  • wealth and honour come
    from Heaven, 136 seq., 404,

  • its body,
    183,

  • Heaven does not speak nor
    hear, its nature is non-interference,
    184; 227,

  • Heaven's ways difficult
    to understand, 242;

  • Chap. XIX, the
    pure elements formed heaven, the
    impure ones earth, 252,

  • heaven is
    not air, but has a body, 257,

  • its
    distance from earth, eod.,

  • its circumference
    365 degrees, eod.,

  • not raised
    in summer, nor depressed in winter,
    260,

  • not high in the south, nor low
    in the north, eod.,

  • not shaped like
    a reclining umbrella, 261,

  • looks like
    a bowl turned upside down, eod.,

  • is as level as earth, 262,

  • heaven
    makes a circumvolution of 365 degrees
    = 730,000 Li every day, 266,

  • heaven's movement the spontaneous
    emission of fluid, 268,

  • its distance
    from earth upwards of 60,000 Li,
    275,

  • its principle spontaneity, 283,

  • Heaven's anger, 286,

  • the dark blue
    sky, eod.,

  • Heaven humanised, eod.;

  • all beings to Heaven like children,
    289,

  • Heaven does not write, 295,

  • emits its fluid into Earth, 322,

  • minister
    of Heaven, 421,

  • Mencius on
    Heaven, 422,

  • the Heaven of antiquity
    is the Heaven of to-day, 471,

  • Heaven is a body like the Earth,
    509,

  • Heaven the master of the
    hundred spirits, 526,

  • virtues are its
    principles eod.

• Heaven and Earth [OMITTED], by the
  fusion of their fluids all things are
  produced, 92,

  • are like husband and
    wife, 93, 99, 287, 322,

  • are inactive,
    97,

  • cannot act, are devoid of knowledge,
    101,

  • do not create man on
    purpose, 103,

  • their fluids mixing,
    things grow naturally and spontaneously,
    104,

  • the great man equals
    them in virtue, 129,

  • believed to
    punish the wicked, 164,

  • cannot be
    interrogated by diviners, 182,

  • do
    not respond, 184;

  • have a body, eod.;

  • set in order, 193,

  • contain air, 252,

  • act in spontaneous harmony, 277,

  • their nature is spontaneity, 280,

  • father and mother of mankind,
    287,

  • like a great furnace filled
    with Yang (fire) and Yin (water),
    294, 320, 330,

  • are both bodies,
    337,

  • were not born and do not
    die, 349,

  • conjointly produce all
    things, 471,

  • their size many ten
    thousand Li, 510,

  • the emperor
    treats Heaven like his father and
    Earth like his mother, 517,

  • in man
    the mind of Heaven and Earth
    reach their highest development,
    529.

• Heavenly fluid [OMITTED], 110, 138.

• Heavenly officials [OMITTED], the
  stars, 138, 227.

• Hill sacrifice [OMITTED], Fêng-shan,
  332.

• Homeopathetic treatment [OMITTED]
  [OMITTED]; cold cured by cold, and
  fever by fire, 299.

• Hook Star [OMITTED] = Mercury, 127.

• Hot Water Abyss see T`ang-ku.

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• House [OMITTED], constellation, 112,
  118, 127.

• Human Emperors [OMITTED], mythical
  rulers of remotest antiquity, 193,
  252.

I.

• Ignorance, blissful of primitive
  times, 100.

• Immortality, drug of [OMITTED], 335,

  • aimed at by Taoists, 336, 343.

• Inaction [OMITTED], 92.

• Incidents [OMITTED], definition, 143.

• Intoxication, the virtuous believed
  not to become intoxicated, 487.

K.

• Killing animals see animals.

L.

• Land division in Wei, 382.

• Language, different in ancient and
  modern times and in different parts
  of the empire, 72.

• Life [OMITTED]; the Taoists endeavour to
  prolong life by quietism and dispassionateness,
  346,

  • its proper length
    a hundred years, 314, 472.

  • Long
    life, the shortest 70 years, medium
    80 years, longest 90 years, 452.

• Life and death [OMITTED] depend on
  Destiny, 136 seq.

• Literati [OMITTED], 250, 252, 257, 265,
  304, 332, 338, 434, 447, 473, 490.

• Luan [OMITTED], bird inferior to the phœnix,
  364.

• Luck [OMITTED], definition, 141.

• Lumbago (sciatica) [OMITTED] or [OMITTED], said
  to be caused by devils flogging the
  patient, 299,

  • cured with honey and
    cinnabar, eod.

M.

• Madness [OMITTED], a disturbance of
  the vital force, 240,

  • of nature 380.

• Magpies [OMITTED], know the future,
  358.

• Man, born from Heaven and Earth
  and endowed with the heavenly
  fluid, 97,

  • why active, eod.;

  • his insignificance,
    when compared with
    Heaven and Earth, 109,

  • filled with
    the heavenly fluid, 111,

  • a tiny creature,
    112,

  • imbibing the heavenly
    fluid man is born, 138,

  • man a pigmy,
    183,

  • before his birth and after death
    man is part of the primogenial fluid,
    194,

  • he is born and kept alive by
    the Yin and the Yang, 249,

  • a creature
    like others, 289,

  • the noblest of
    the productions of Heaven and
    Earth, 320, 352,

  • like lice, 322,

  • is
    born by propagation, eod.,

  • never
    metamorphosed, 327,

  • not different
    from other creatures, 335,

  • first
    among naked creatures, 353, 528,

  • endowed with a spontaneous mind
    and a uniform disposition, 386,

  • average
    people and people above and
    below the average, 386, 391,

  • endowed
    with the nature of Heaven and
    Earth, 390,

  • with the Five Qualities,
    eod.,

  • the most intelligent of the ten
    thousand creatures, 528.

• Marriage, age of, 472.

• Matriarchate, 473.

• Mechanisms:—a flying kite, a wooden
  carriage and horses, made by
  Mê Tse and Lu Pan, 499.

• Medicine, liquid and pills, 282,

  • mineral
    drugs [OMITTED], 252.

• Meteors [OMITTED], 230, 271, 274 seq.,
  507.

• Miracles [OMITTED], 244,

  • Chap. XXVI.

• Moon [OMITTED], moves 13 degrees =
  26,000 Li every day, 266,

  • a hare
    and a toad in the moon, 268,

  • the
    moon is water, eod.

• Music, its power on animals, 379,

  • its magical force, 222.

N.

• Naked People [OMITTED], 407.

• Nature [OMITTED], natural [OMITTED], concomitant
  [OMITTED], adverse [OMITTED], 140,

  • human nature
    affected by its environment, 375,

  • by
    instruction, 382.

  • different views on
    original nature, Chap. XXXII.

• Natural feelings and natural disposition
  [OMITTED], the basis of human
  activity, 384,

  • said to correspond to
    the Yin and the Yang, 389.

• Nine Continents [OMITTED], 253.

• Nine Heavens [OMITTED], 339.

• Nine Provinces (Circuits) [OMITTED] =
  China, 253, 390.

• Nine Relations [OMITTED], ascendants
  and descendants, 492.

• Nine Streams [OMITTED], 261.

• Nine Tripods [OMITTED], of the Chou
  dynasty, disappeared, 218,

  • auspicious,
    505,

  • their history, 506.

• Nine Wild Tribes of the East
  [OMITTED], 406.

• Notes, musical, 121.

• Noxious influences [OMITTED], Chap. XLIII.

• Nursing of children, 314.

O.

• Odes of the Shiking [OMITTED], 91.

• Omens (Portents) [OMITTED], Chap. XIII,
  different kinds, 173, 183,

  • the lucky
    meet with lucky omens by chance,
    186,

  • omens and signs are always
    true, 190,

  • shaped like man, 230,

  • indicate future happiness or misfortune,
    245,

  • correspond to something
    good, 368,

  • happen spontaneously,
    eod.,

  • during the Han epoch,
    372, 406,

  • under Ming Ti, 479,

  • under
    Kuang Wu Ti, 480.

• Ominous creatures [OMITTED], have
  no species, are born by accident,
  365,

  • from a propitious fluid, 366.

• Original fluid, see Primogenial
  fluid.

• Orphan of Chao [OMITTED], 177.

P.

• Parrots [OMITTED], can talk, 358.

• Pearls, genuine ones in fishes, 273,

  • and shells, 378.

• Pearl-tree in the farthest southwest
  [OMITTED], 273.

• Perfect man, 134.

• Phantoms [OMITTED] consist of the solar
  fluid, 245,

  • emit poison, 247.

• Phœnix [OMITTED], Chap. XXX, a holy
  bird, huge with a variegated plumage,
  359,

  • accompanied by thousands
    of birds, 363,

  • phœnix and unicorn
    signs of universal. peace, 364,

  • as
    big as a horse; 5 feet high, 366,

  • did not come at Confucius' time, 405.

• Phenomenalists [OMITTED],
  scholars who explained calamities
  and other natural phenomena by
  moral causes, 127, 128, 281, 283.

• Physiognomy see Anthroposcopy.

• Physiognomists, have divided
  human features into more than
  seventy classes, 72.

• Pillar of Heaven [OMITTED] = K`unlun,
  89, 250.

• Plan of the Yellow River [OMITTED],
  95, 238, 294, 405, 454.

• Plum, may grow on a cherry-tree, 102.

• Poison [OMITTED], Chap. XXIII, the hot
  air of the sun, 298,

  • bad men filled
    with a poisonous fluid, 300,

  • poison
    of glib-tongued people, 303.

• Pole of heaven [OMITTED], 255.

• Polar star [OMITTED], 260, [OMITTED], 263.

• Polygamy, its drawbacks, 141.

• Portents see Omens.

• Posthumous titles, 162, 208, 333.

• Pregnant women, what they are
  to avoid, while with child, 141.

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• Primitive life, 474,

  • happy without
    virtue and knowledge, 100.

• Primogenial fluid [OMITTED], vague,
  diffuse, and unconscious, the human
  fluid a part of it, 194,

  • genuine and
    harmonious; all people filled with
    it, 471.

• Primordial generation of fish and
  grass, 368.

• Propriety and righteousnous upheld
  against Han Fei Tse, 434 seq.

• Public instruction and criminal law
  what for, 380.

• Punishments meted out in autumn
  and winter, 148, 280, 291.

• Purple boletus [OMITTED], a felicitous
  plant, 132,

  • eaten by Taoists, 339.

Q.

• Quipos, 473.

R.

• Rain [OMITTED], portended by insects, by
  the expansion of chords, and by
  chronic diseases, 109,

  • its origin, 277,

  • becomes dew and frost, eod.;

  • a fluid
    emitted by heaven, 289,

  • the Rain
    God [OMITTED], 511, 521.

• Rat [OMITTED], a skin-disease cured by
  eating a cat, 158.

• Raven [OMITTED], three-legged, cannot
  live in the sun, 268.

• Red Emperor [OMITTED], 178, 234.

• Rhinopithecus [OMITTED], knows the
  past, 358.

S.

• Sacrifices [OMITTED], Chap. XLI and
  XLII, presented to Heaven and
  Earth, Mountains and Rivers, the
  Spirits of the Land and Grain, 510, 516,

  • to the Five Genii and the
    ancestors, 516,

  • to Shangti, to the Six
    Superior Powers, eod.,

  • the imperial,
    suburban, patriarchal, and ancestral
    sacrifices, eod.,

  • sacrifices to the
    Seasons, to Heat and Cold, the Sun,
    the Moon, the Stars, the Four Cardinal
    Points, to Water and Drought,
    517,

  • to Earth, at the meals, 523,

  • to
    the Five Emperors and Three
    Rulers, 516,

  • to Mountains, Gates,
    and Doors, 536,

  • of an ox, 514,

  • of
    wood, a calf, a sheep, 516 seq., of
    millet, rice-cake, and soup offered
    to Earth, 510,

  • the meaning of sacrifices,
    509, 535,

  • motives of sacrifices:—gratitude
    and ancestor worship,
    517,

  • they are not enjoyed by
    ghosts or spirits, but merely symbolical,
    522,

  • of no avail, 537.

• Sages, endued with the harmonious
  fluid, 316,

  • not imbued with a special
    fluid, 322,

  • credited with the gift of
    prophecy, 353,

  • produced by Heaven
    every 500 years, 424.

• Sage birds and animals, 371.

• Scarlet Bird [OMITTED], the southern
  quadrant of solar mansions, 106.

• Schools [OMITTED], founded from olden
  times, 434.

• Scroll of the Lo [OMITTED], 95, 238,
  294, 455.

• Secretary falcon [OMITTED], poisonous, 301.

• Sensations, how caused by the
  mental fluid, 239.

• Seven Sacrifices [OMITTED], performed
  by the Emperor, 519.

• Seventy odd disciples of Confucius
  [OMITTED], all sages, 151, 168, 375,
  392, 396.

• Sickness not a punishment of
  Heaven, 119.

• Six Classics [OMITTED], the Five Classics
  and the Classic of Music, 128.

• Six Departments of Literature [OMITTED]
  [OMITTED] under the Han dynasty:—classics,
  six arts, philosophy, poetry, military
  science, and divination, 83, 470.

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• Six Domestic Animals [OMITTED],
  the horse, the ox, the goat, the
  pig, the dog, and the fowl, 193.

• Six Honoured ones [OMITTED], 516.

• Six Institutions of the Chou dynasty
  [OMITTED], administration, instruction,
  rites, police, jurisdiction,
  public welfare, 455.

• Six Passions [OMITTED]:—cheerfulness,
  anger, grief, joy, love, and
  hatred, 110.

• Six States [OMITTED]:—Yen, Chao, Han,
  Wei, Ch`i, and Ch`u, leagued against
  Ch`in, 278, 305, 437.

• Sixty-four Diagrams [OMITTED]
  [OMITTED], composed by Wên Wang, 87,
  454.

• Solstices [OMITTED] in summer and winter,
  259, 265.

• Sophists [OMITTED], poison flowing from
  their mouths, 303.

• Sorcerers [OMITTED], filled with the Yang
  fluid, 246, 298,

  • live in the South,
    247,

  • can predict fate, eod.

• Soul [OMITTED], the souls of the dead are
  dissolved and cannot hear any more,
  207;

  • animal soul [OMITTED] and mind [OMITTED],
    209,

  • the soul = vital fluid, 228,

  • roaming about during a dream, eod.

• Southern Circuit [OMITTED] = Tung-chün
  in Hupei, 298.

• Sparrows turn into clams, 326, 336,
  368.

• Speech and fire have the same essence,
  300.

• Spirits [OMITTED], believed to punish
  the guilty, 164,

  • diffuse and shapeless
    [OMITTED], 191,

  • [OMITTED] spirit,
    a name of the active principle, 191,

  • [OMITTED] the spiritual fluid forms man
    and at death reverts to its original
    state, 192;

  • spirits are unconscious,
    197,

  • spirits Heaven's angels, 291,

  • diffuse and incorporeal, 292, 352,
    536,

  • can soar, eod.,

  • what is vague
    and unsubstantial has the nature of
    a spirit, 353,

  • it seems as if the
    spirits helped the happy and caused
    the misfortune of the miserable, 144,
    160,

  • clothes, 5-6 inches long, offered
    to spirits, 515.

• Spirit bird [OMITTED], 364.

• Spirit of Earth [OMITTED], propitiated
  after the building of a house, 535.

• Spirit of Heaven [OMITTED], reprimanding
  a sovereign, 119,

  • impersonated
    by a man, 232,

  • angry, 287,

  • like a king in his residence, 290,
    352,

  • changing his mind, 408.

• Spirit of Rain [OMITTED], 222.

• Spirit of Sickness [OMITTED], 534.

• Spirit of the Wind [OMITTED], 222.

• Spiritism by means of mediums in
  a trance, 196.

• Spontaneity [OMITTED], Chap. III,
  means absence of purpose, 283.

• Spontaneous fluid [OMITTED],
  101, 130.

• Spontaneous harmony of heaven
  and earth, when it rains, 277.

• Spook [OMITTED], Chap. XVII.

• Spring and Autumn [OMITTED], work
  of Confucius, 414, 447, 451, 452.

• Spring and Autumn period, 722 to
  480 b.c., 116, 210, 269, 271, 274,
  354, 362, 363, 451.

• Stars [OMITTED], their effluence [OMITTED] gives
  wealth and honour, 138,

  • produces
    and develops things on earth, 241,

  • stars are not round, 271,

  • their size
    a hundred Li, 275,

  • are attached to
    heaven, 511.

• Struggle for existence, 105 seq.

• Style, 70 et seq.

• Sun [OMITTED], ten suns in Yao's time, 89,
  271,

  • the sun came back, 89,

  • reverted
    to the meridian, eod., and 116,

  • encircled
    by a white halo, when Ching
    

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    K`o stabbed Shih Huang Ti, 118,

  • solar fluid = heavenly fluid, 249,

  • motion of the sun and the moon,
    250,

  • Chap. XX, the sun takes 16
    different courses during a year, not
    9, 260,

  • its different size in the
    morning and at noon, 263,

  • sun
    and moon like ants crawling on
    a mill-stone are carried along by
    heaven from east to west, 266,

  • the sun moves 1 degree = 2,000 Li
    every day, eod.,

  • is fire, 267,

  • a three-legged
    raven in the sun, 268,

  • sun
    and moon not round, 271,

  • the sun
    is fire, 357.

• Sun-stroke [OMITTED], the effect
  of poisonous air, 299, 300.

• Swearing by Heaven, 403 seq.

• Sweet dew [OMITTED], a lucky omen,
  produced by the harmonious fluid,
  366, 373.

• Swords, their manufacture, 377,

  • famous
    swords, 503-504.

T.

• Tail [OMITTED], constellation, 118.

• Tao [OMITTED], the fundamental principle
  of Taoism, 148, 328, 333, 336, 346.

• Taoism, 102.

• Taoists, argue on spontaneity, 92,
  97,

  • made an artifical apparition
    of Lady Wang, eod.,

  • possess real
    virtue i. e. inaction and quietism,
    100,

  • said to have become genii,
    328,

  • exhibiting tricks at the court
    of Huai Nan Tse, 335,

  • drinking the
    elixir of life and eating purple
    boletus, 339,

  • cannot be drowned
    nor burned, 342,

  • Chap. XXVIII,
    living on air and regulating their
    breath to become immortal, 348,

  • take medicines witha view to prolong
    life, 349,

  • make artificial gems,
    378,

  • studying the art of immortality,
    524.

• Tempest, expression of Heaven's
  anger, 285, 351.

• Thirty-five kingdoms [OMITTED]
  [OMITTED], beyond the sea, where plumigerous
  and feathered tribes live,
  254, 330.

• Three Dynasties [OMITTED]:—Hsia,
  Yin, and Chou, 214, 319, 322, 464,

  • their different systems of government,
    475.

• Three hundred scaly animals
  [OMITTED], of which the dragon
  the first, 353.

• Three hundred and sixty naked
  animals [OMITTED],
  among which man ranks first, 528.

• Three Mountains disappeared during
  the Ch`in epoch, 276, 507.

• Three Offerings [OMITTED], made to
  the Genii of Spring, Autumn, and
  Winter, 518.

• Three Rulers see Five Emperors
  and Three Rulers.

• Three Sacrifices [OMITTED], of the
  high dignitaries, 519.

• Thunder [OMITTED], Chap. XXII, not
  Heaven's angry voice, 285,

  • not caused
    by Heaven's fetching a dragon,
    285,

  • represented by drums or as the
    "Thunderer", 292,

  • the exploding
    solar fluid, 294,

  • fire, eod.;

  • why thunder
    must be fire, 295,

  • the thunder and
    the dragon attract one another, 356,

  • thunder how caused, 357.

• Thunder goblet [OMITTED], of the
  Hsia dynasty, 293, 506.

• Thunderer [OMITTED], the God of
  Thunder, an athlete with drums
  and a hammer, 292, 511, 521.

• Tiger [OMITTED], howling attracts the wind,
  279, 356.

• Time [OMITTED], propitious or unpropitious,
  145, 146,

  • definition, 171,

  • determines
    happy and unhappy events, 524.

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• Time periods [OMITTED], 24 solar
  periods, into which the year is
  divided, 281.

• Toad [OMITTED], cannot live in the
  moon, 268.

• Tortoise [OMITTED], spiritual, 365.

• Trance (Faint) [OMITTED], 195, 196.

• Tribute of Yü [OMITTED], Yü-kung,
  chapter of the Shuking, 253, 271,
  378.

• Twelve Holy Men = Twelve Sages
  [OMITTED], 304, 322, 359.

• Twelve horary characters and
  their corresponding animals [OMITTED], 106.

• Twelve Spirits of the Cardinal
  Points [OMITTED], 534.

• Twenty-eight constellations (solar
  mansions) [OMITTED], the
  resting-places of sun and moon, 257.

• Two Sacrifices [OMITTED], to the
  Spirit of Fire and the Lord of the
  Soil, 518;

  • Two Sacrifices of ordinary
    scholars, 519.

U.

• Unconsciousness of the dead, 194.

• Unicorn [OMITTED] = Kilin, 266,

  • like
    a deer with one horn, a holy animal,
    359,

  • a white unicorn with five feet,
    370,

  • like a deer with two horns,
    eod.,

  • resembling a stag, eod.,

  • wild
    animal with joined horus, 371.

V.

• Vermilion grass [OMITTED], an auspicious
  plant, 132, 366.

• Visions of ghosts, caused by pain
  and fear, 239.

• Vital fluid [OMITTED] or [OMITTED]
  the length of life depends upon it,
  138,

  • man lives by the vital fluid
    residing in the arteries, 191,

  • it fills
    the body as millet and rice a bag,
    and disperses at death, 192;

  • blood
    the vital force of the living, 193;

  • its seat in the blood, 194, 195;

  • vital
    energy maintained by eating and
    drinking, 198;

  • vital force within the
    body and outside the body, 198;

  • through death the fluid is lost, and
    the vital spirit [OMITTED] dissolved,
    199;

  • after death it is a formless fluid,
    eod.;

  • the vital spirit of all creatures is
    extinguished by death, it evaporates
    and disappears, 201,

  • causes thought
    and sensations, 239,

  • it gives knowledge
    and speech, 249,

  • copious or
    scarce, determines the length of life,
    313, 329,

  • received by men at their
    birth, forms the constitution, 325,

  • vanishes at death, 330,

  • is drawn
    from food, 348,

  • the vital force concentrated
    forms the human being,
    350.

• Vital force = Vital fluid.

W.

• Water Spirit [OMITTED], son of Chuan
  Hsü, 242, 534.

• Weird sayings of children [OMITTED],
  232, 237,

  • due to the influence of
    Mars, 246.

• White Emperor [OMITTED], 234.

• White Tiger [OMITTED], western quadrant
  of solar mansions, 106, 534.

• Will-o'-the-wisp [OMITTED], the blood
  of the slain, 193.

• Wind [OMITTED], foreseen by insects, 109,

  • its influence on robbers and thieves,
    and on the market prices, 110;

  • winds on New Year's Day portend
    the new year, 111,

  • lucky wind,
    181,

  • the God of Wind [OMITTED], 511,
    521.

• Wine-spring [OMITTED], an auspicious
  portent, 366.

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• Wizards and priests [OMITTED], have
  no power, 537.

• World, lying in the South-east of the
  universe, 255, 263.

Y.

• Yang [OMITTED] fluid (principle) comes forth
  spontaneously, 99; 110;

  • governs life,
    111;

  • the hot fluids, eod,

  • is broiling
    hot, 226;

  • becomes the mind, 209,

  • is
    fire and as such hot and red, 246,

  • boys and sorcerers imbued with it,
    eod.;

  • it predominates at the time of a
    drought, eod.,

  • the Yang fluid produces
    the vital spirit, 249,

  • shines like the
    sun, prevails in summer and is scarce
    in winter, 248,

  • is warm and genial,
    279,

  • is brightness and warmth, 284,

  • an immense fire, 294,

  • ornaments
    originate from the Yang, 302.

• Yin [OMITTED] fluid (principle), 99, 110;

  • governs death, 111,

  • the cold fluids,
    eod.

  • rushing against the hot Yang
    fluid, 226,

  • predominates during an
    eclipse of the sun, 246,

  • it produces
    the bones and flesh, 249,

  • is dark,
    abounds in winter, and falls short
    in summer, 258,

  • corresponds to the
    North, 259,

  • is cold murder, 279,

  • is
    rain and cold, 284,

  • clouds and rain
    are Yin, 294.

• Yin and Yang [OMITTED], in harmony,
  98, 103, 126;

  • Yin and Yang crystallise
    and produce man, who by death is
    again dissolved into these fluids,
    196;

  • can injure the good, 242,

  • cause
    the length and the shortness of the
    days, 258, 283,

  • Yin and Yang coming
    into friction produce thunder and
    lightning, 294, 339, 348;

  • Yin and
    Yang were not born and do not die,
    349,

  • their fluids the fluids of Heaven
    and Earth, 368;

  • Yin and Yang and
    good and evil, 388,

  • disorganised,
    when propriety and righteousness
    are neglected, 434,

  • in harmony,
    when the government is good, 465.