Fêng-shan. Sacrifices offered on T’ai Shan by Ch’êng Tsung, [127]

Fêng-shui, Doctrine of, [54]; dragons connected with, [209]

Festival-s, [43] sq.; Mid-autumn (All Souls’ Day), [35], [44][45]; New Year, [43]; of Lanterns, [43][44]; of the four seasons and their equinoxes and solstices, [44]; Earlier Spirit, [44]; of the Tombs, [44]; Middle Spirit, [44]; Later Spirit, [44]; Dragon-boat, [44], [152]; Chung Yang (kite-flying), [45]; New Year’s Eve, [45]

Feudal Period. Duration of, [18]; administrative system in, [28][29]; ecclesiastical institutions in, [34] sq.; professional institutions in, [36]; accessory institutions in, [37]

Feudal States. Subjugated by Ch’in, [27]

Finger-nails. Worn long by literary and leisured classes, [47]

Fire. Ch’ih Ching-tzŭ an alleged discoverer of, [199]; myths of, [236] sq.; Ministry of, [236]; God of, burns Hsi Ch’i, [236][237]; Ch’ih Ching-tzŭ a personification of, [237]; Ch’ih Ti, the Red Emperor, [237][238]; Hui Lu, [238][239]; Shên Nung, [239]; the Fire-quenching Fan, [359] sq.

Fire-quenching Fan, The Magic, [359] sq.

First Cause. Sung philosophers and, [85][86]; Mencius and, [90]

Five Elements (wu hsing), [84]