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139. There is the Lien shan system,
Yu3 lien2 shan1
Have connected hills


Yu see line 14.

Lien is composed of 車 ch'ê a cart and the walking radical, and may possibly derive its meaning from a string of carts.

Shan see line 13. [Lien shan is the name of a system of philosophy of permutations (line 135) said to have been invented by the Emperor 伏羲 Fu Hsi, B.C. 2953—2838, who began with the Diagram for hills.]


140. there is the Kuei tsang,
Yu2 kuei1 tsang4
Have return storehouse


Yu see line 14.

Kuei is composed of a contraction of 婦 fu wife (line 56), 止 chih to stop (line 120) as radical, and an old form of 堆 tui a heap as phonetic. It originally meant the marriage of a woman, in which sense it will be found in the Odes.

Tsang was originally 臧 tsang which is composed of 臣 ch'ên (line 54) as radical inserted in 戕 ch'iang a spear, and which is now reserved for such meanings as good, right. The 艸 ts'ao vegetation was added later in order to mark the sense to conceal. In modern days it means a place for keeping things, a treasury; read ts'ang2, the character means to conceal, to store up. [Kuei tsang was the system of the Emperor 神農 Shên Nung, B.C. 2838—2698, who began with the Diagram for earth. Eitel, borrowing from Wylie (Notes on Ch. Lit. p. 2), translates this term by Reverting Deposit; and further, again from Wylie, he makes the system in force under the 商 Shang dynasty (line 188), and that of line 139 in force under the 夏 Hsia dynasty (line 187).]