[175] These are entitled to receive from Government a small allowance of rice, besides being permitted to exercise certain petty functions, for which a certain charge is authorized. See [Appendix A].
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[176] One of the strangers was the disembodied spirit of Hsiu’s father, helping his son to take vengeance on the wicked Shên.
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[177] An intermediate step between the first and second degrees, to which certain privileges are attached.
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[178] A.D. 1400
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[179] The first of the sixteen maxims which form the so-called Sacred Edict, embodies these two all-important family ties. The doctrine of primogeniture is carried so far in China as to put every younger brother in a subordinate position to every elder brother. All property, however, of whatever kind, is equally divided among the sons. [The Sacred Edict was delivered by the great Emperor K‘ang Hsi, and should be publicly read and explained in every city of the Empire on the first and fifteenth of each month.]
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[180] Ordinary devils being unable to stand for any length of time the light and life of the upper world, the souls of certain persons are often temporarily employed in this work by the authorities of Purgatory, their bodies remaining meanwhile in a trance or cataleptic fit.
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[181] Their family name.
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[182] The Chinese corrupted form of Bodhisatva. Now widely employed to designate any deity of any kind.
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[183] The usual similitude for a Chinese tatterdemalion.
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[184] The surnames Chang, Wang, and Li, correspond in China to our Brown, Jones, and Robinson.
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