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C H I trings, othets 10, and others only 5; (which of them hall we believe?) Beides, others make this only three ix es ix s in length.

Fou-hi made this, ay ome, to ward off s, and banih impurity of.

He took of the of , and made alo a  of 36, or rather of 50 trings. This erved to adorn the peron with s, and to regulate the, &c. Latly, he made a third of; after which, ay they, ceremonies and were in high eteem.

The which Fou-hi introduced, was of, round within to imitate , and quare without to reemble the.

He himelf made trial of many (This is mot commonly aid of Chin-nong: but it is pretended, that Chin-nong finished what Fou-hi had began.)

This is all we read of Fou-hi. Several contradictions will be remarked in mot of thee traditions, epecially when we come to ee in the equel, that almot all thee inventions are acribed to the ucceors of Fou-hi. From hence may be judged what regard is due to the beginnings of the Chinee.

We have till ome reigns to examine, before we have done with the fabulous and uncertain times.

They ay of Koung-koung, that he employed in making  and.

They acribe to Niu oua (who is the of the Chinee) everal  of. The eng and hoang erved her, ay they, to communicate with the eight s. By means of kouens, or double s, he united all  into one, and made concord between the, , and. This is called perfect harmony. Niu-oua had a (e) of five trings; he made another of 50 trings, whole  was o affecting, that it could not be borne; wherefore he reduced thee 50 trings to 25, to diminish its force.

The Chin-nong is very famous among the Chinee, by the great dicoveries which, they ay, he made in, , and even in the , ince they believe, that, in the times of Han, they had a book of this  on the.

A fondness for the marvellous has made ome ay, that, at three s of age, he knew every thing that concerned. The very name Chin-nong, in the Chinee language, ignifies, the first of . Chin-nong took very hard, of which he made the of the , and ofter  of which he made the handle. He taught men to the. They acribe to him the invention of. He owed the five kinds of s on the outh of Mount Ki, and taught the people to make them their.

Chin-nong commanded that they hould be diligent in gathering the s which the produced. He taught every thing relative to, to the , and the  of making  and  of. They owe alo to Chin nong the and the ; others, however, acribe  to Hoang-ti, and the  of  to Tchi-yeou.

Chin-nong invented s in the middle of the, This was the origin of and mutual. He made ue of to facilitate. He intituted.

Chin nong ditinguihed s, determined their various properties, and applied them kilfully in the care of. They ay, that, in one, he made trial of 70 kinds of , poke of 400 , and taught 365. This makes the ubject of a, intitled, Pouenetao, which they acribe to him, and which contains four chapters. Others alledge, and with reason, that this is not ancient. They ay, with as little truth, that Chin-nong made  on quare s.

Chin-nong commanded Tiou-ho-ki to commit to every thing relative to the  of  perons, and what concerned the, to teach how to examine its motions if they were regular and harmonious, and, for this end, how to feel it from time to time, and acquaint the patient.

Chin-nong compoed or  on the  of the. He made a very beautiful, and a adorned with , to form the grand harmony, to bridle concupicence, to elevate  to the intelligent pirit, and bring men back to the  verity.

Chin-nong acended a drawn by five. He was the first that meaured the figure of the, and determined the four. He found 900,000 lys is wet, and 850,000 is north and outh. He divided all this vat pace into s.

Among the ucceors of Chin-nong they place Hoang-ti, and the rebel Tchi yeou, whom they make the inventor of of, and everal kinds of. Tchi-yeou had the power of raiing and darknes extremely thick. Hoang-ti knew not how to attack and overcome him. He accomplihed it, however, by forming a, on which he placed a figure whoe arm of itelf always turned to the outh, in order to point out the four regions. Hoang-ti ued the and.

Tchi-yeou ordered, s, and to be made. They acribe to Hoang-ti the kia te, or cycle of 60 s; or at leat Ta-nao made it by his direction.

The Tang-kiai was charged to compoe. Yong-tcheng made a which repreented the, and dicovered the.

Li-cheou regulated, and invented an intrument for , like to, or the ame with that which is till in ue in and ; and of which Mattini, in his Decades, and la Loubere, in his voyage to Siam, have given us the deign and decription.

Ling-lune, a native of Yuene-yu, in the wet of Ta-hia, (that is, ), took s in the of Hiai-ki; he cut two of an equal length, and blew into them: this gave occaion to the invention of s. He adjuted twelve of these s to imitate the ong of, the royal , (one of the  s of the Chinee). He divided thee s into twelve lu; ix erved to imitate the ong of the male, and ix that of the female. Finally, this man brought to perfection, and explained the order and arrangement of different. By means of thee lu-lu, he governed the