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BOOK X. THE NÊI ZEH :
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THE PATTERN OF THE FAMILY 1.
SECTION I. 1. The sovereign and king orders the chief minister to send down his (lessons of) virtue to the millions of the people.
2. Sons, in serving their parents, on the first crowing of the cock, should all wash their hands and rinse their mouths, comb their hair, draw over it the covering of silk, fix this with the hair-pin, bind the hair at the roots with the fillet, brush the dust from that which is left free, and then put on their caps, leaving the ends of the strings hanging down. They should then put on their squarely made black jackets, knee-covers, and girdles, fixing in the last their tablets. From the left and right of the girdle they should hang their articles for use :-on the left side, the duster and handkerchief, the knife and whetstone, the small spike, and the metal speculum for getting fire from the sun ; on the right, the archer's thimble for the thumb and the armlet, the tube for writing instruments, the knife-case, the larger spike, and the borer for getting fire from wood. They should put on their leggings, and adjust their shoe-strings.
See the introductory notice, pp. 26, 27. ? The 'sons' here are young gentlemen of good families, shih (+), who might be employed as ordinary officers. [27]
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