[1141] The ichthyologists divided fresh-water fishes into two kinds—Yeh yü, wild, and Chia yū, tame fish: the former cannot live, much less propagate their species, in waters lacking a stream.
[1142] Du Halde, op. cit., vol. I. p. 36 f.
[1143] The Yü of a pond, according to the Shan t’ang ssŭ k’ao, was the name of “a fence of bamboo set up in the water, and used for rearing fish.”
[1144] Op. cit., ch. XXX.
[1145] Op. cit. This is but another name assumed by Fan Li.
[1146] See antea, 251 ff.
[1147] Biog. Dict., 540. Li’s fish-ponds are mentioned in the Wu Yüeh Ch’un Ch’iu, or Annals of the States of Wu and Yüeh.
[1148] Op. cit., vol. I.
[1149] De Thiersant, op. cit.
[1150] Though they and their subjects rejoiced greatly in cock and quail fighting, nature denied to them the “fighting fish,” which in Siam are the occasion of weekly contests, heavy wagering, and a fruitful source of revenue to the government from the sale of special licenses (cf. Wright, op. cit., 187-8).