chin lu (golden seal),
ta chiao (great sacrifice),
t’an yung (altar use).
[102] Ch’ing k’ou, lit. mouth like a gong or sounding stone.
[103] Man hsin, lit. loaf-shaped centre.
[104] Yüan tsu, lit. foot with outer border.
[105] An extract from the I Chih (quoted in the T’ao lu, bk. viii., fol. 14) states that “in the 26th year of Chia Ching, the emperor demanded that vessels should be made with 'fresh red’ (hsien hung) decoration; they were difficult to make successfully, and Hsü Chên of the Imperial Censorate, memorialised the throne, requesting that red from sulphate of iron (fan hung) be used instead.” A memorial of similar tenor was sent to the emperor by Hsü Ch’ih in the succeeding reign.