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  • The fairy grasses and the ch'ang p'u (see table of plants in Introduction) both grow in the Taoist Paradises.

    Fir-Flower Tablets: Poems Translated From the Chinese 1921

  • Games with dice are of a high antiquity in Greece; they date in China only from the second century A.D., having been introduced from the West under the name of _shu p'u_, a term which has so far defied identification.

    China and the Chinese Herbert Allen Giles 1890

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