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  • The dew, blown on the t'ung tree by the well, doth wet the roosting rooks.

    Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books Xueqin Cao

  • The chief literary sources of Chinese myths are the _Li tai shên hsien t'ung chien_, in thirty-two volumes, the _Shên hsien lieh chuan_, in eight volumes, the _Fêng shên yen i_, in eight volumes, and the

    Myths and Legends of China 1909

  • The most popular God of Fire, however, is Hui Lu, a celebrated magician who, according to the _Shên hsien t'ung chien_, lived some time before the reign of Ti K'u (2436-2366 B.C.), the father of Yao the Great, and had a mysterious bird named Pi Fang and a hundred other fire-birds shut up in a gourd.

    Myths and Legends of China 1909

  • L.G. Thompson, Ta t'ung shu: The One World Philosophy of K'ang Yu Wei (London, 1958).

    UTOPIA ROGER L. EMERSON 1968

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