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besides longevity Pong-tsu. I do not have the means to enjoy the happy winds to sail off, nor to ride fast horses to visit distant countries. I only strive, contemplating the sun, the moon and the stars, from 1. In the second month of spring, the sun is in the K'ouei constellation (Andromeda and Pisces). The Hou constellation (the Great Dog and the Argo Ship) reaches the middle of its course in the evening, and the Kién constellation (the Sagittarius Head) in the morning. 2. The names which are best suited to the days of that month are those in which the letter kiă or the letter ĭ. The sovereign who presides over the operations of nature is T'ai hao; the tutelary genius is Keou mang. This month's clean an*mals are those that are covered with scales. The corresponding sound is kiŏ and the musical tu*e kiă tchōung. 3. At this month correspond the number eight, acid taste, rancid smell. One sacrifices to the tutelary geniuses interior doors of China is for us the country of the contrast: in any order of ideas, it is at our antipodes. Thus the proper or patronymic name precedes the small name: it is not a first name, but a postnom, if we can say that word. All Chinese drinks, tea, rice wine or distilled sorghum, liqueurs, etc., are served hot; the Chinese always drinks hot, which quenches and refreshes him better than if he made an icy drink. The book begins where ours end: Chinese, in fact, is written from right to left and from top to bottom, in vertical columns, and not from left to right in horizontal lines. The title of the work, instead of appearing at the top of the page, is printed below, straddling the double page that forms a Chinese page; the pagination is not indicated at the top of the page, but below, under the current title. The notes are not at the foot of the pages; on the contrary, they are at the top.