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THE LI Kİ.
there would be droughts in the states; vapours and fogs would shed abroad their gloom, and thunder would utter its voice. If those proper to autumn were observed, the weather would be rainy and slushy; melons and gourds would not attain their full growth; and there would be great wars in the states. If those proper to spring were observed, locusts would work their harm; the springs would all become dry; and many of the people would suffer from leprosy and foul ulcers.
PART III.
1. In the third month of winter the sun is in Wûnü, the constellation culminating at dusk being Lâu, and that culminating at dawn Ti1.
2. Its days are zăn and kwei. Its divine ruler is Kwan-hsü, and the (attendant) spirit is Hsüanming. Its creatures are the shell-covered. Its musical note is Yü, and its pitch-tube is Tâ Lü3.
BK. IV.
3. Its number is six. Its taste is salt. Its smell is that of things that are rotten. Its sacrifice is that at (the altar of) the path; and the part of the victim occupying the foremost place is the kidneys.
4. The wild geese go northwards. The magpie begins to build. The (cock) pheasant crows. Hens hatch.
Wa-nü, as in paragraph 1, page 268. Lâu corresponds to a, B, y, in the head of Aries; Tî, to a, 8, 8, 4, H, Libra.
Tâ Lu is the first of the tubes giving the six lower musical accords.
As is said in the Shih, II, v, 3, 5:
'Crows the pheasant at the dawn, And his mate is to him drawn.'
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