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Book XIII. SANG FỦ HSIÁO KĨ
OR . RECORD OF SMALLER MATTERS IN THE
DRESS OF MOURNING”.
SECTION I. 1. When wearing the unhemmed sackcloth (for a father), (the son) tied up his hair with a hempen (band), and also when wearing it for a mother. When he exchanged this band for the cincture (in the case of mourning for his mother) ?, this was made of linen cloth.
(A wife) 3, when wearing the one year's mourning) of sackcloth with the edges even, had the girdle (of the same), and the inferior hair-pin (of hazel-wood), and wore these to the end of the mourning.
2. (Ordinarily) men wore the cap, and women the hair-pin ; (in mourning) men wore the cincture, and women the same after the female fashion.
* See the introductory notice, vol. xxvii, page 30.
* This was done after the slighter dressing of the corpse. The cincture (wăn, h) is mentioned in the first paragraph of the Than Kung (vol. xxvii, page 120). The hempen band being removed, one of linen cloth, about the breadth of which there are different accounts, was put round the hair on the crown, taken forward to the forehead, there crossed, taken back again, and knotted at the back of the hair.
* The text does not mention the wife' here; but a comparison of different passages shows that this sentence is only applicable to her.
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