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THE LÎ xi.
BK. XXII.
carried red shields and axes adorned with jade in performing the Tâ Wa dance; and this was the music employed by the son of Heaven. (Those kings) in acknowledgment of the great merit of the duke of Kâu, allowed (the use of those sacrifices and this music) to the (marquis of) LŲ. His descendants have continued it, and down to the present day it is not abolished, thereby showing clearly the virtue of the lords of Kâu and magnifying their statel.
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1 This distinction, said to have been thus conferred on the princes of Lů, is contrary to the views of the ablest commentators on the subject.
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