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The Cas-chrom v. the Lei-ssŭ

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

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The curious ancient figure illustrated in the last paragraph of Part I of this paper, ingeniously conjectured by Mr. Hsü-Chung-shu to stand for the modern character chüeh, in its sense of nobility, servesto introduce us to a peculiar word and its character, often used in Chinese texts dealing with the old-time agriculture.

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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1936

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References

page 45 note 1 Analytic Dictionary of Chinese, p. 210.

page 45 note 2 Index to the Tso Oman, p. 301.

page 46 note 1 Legge's, Chinese Classics, vol. 5, part 2, p. 662Google Scholar for the Chinese text, and p. 664 for the English rendering.

page 47 note 1 See note at end of this paper.

page 47 note 2 See Academia Sinica, vol. ii, part i, p. 14, and p. 49.

page 49 note 1 In a rather long and tiring entry on this and some of its variants in “Pict. Reconn.,” part 3, in the JRAS., 1919; p. 380, 1 had suggested that the figure of a bent-handled spoon or ladle was the original, but at some later date had pencilled a note “unless it is the original form of ssŭ a ploughshare”.

page 53 note 1 See Legge's, Chinese Classics, The She King, vol. 4, part 2, p. 379Google Scholar. I have slightly altered the wording.