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C H I the Khi of the Yne and of Yang, he determined the change of the four, and gave calculations for , , and.

Yong yuene, by order of Hoang-ti, made twelve of, which correponded to the , and erved to adjust the five tones, and fix the , &c. fables.

Hoang ti invented a kind of or, called Miene. He ordered a blue and yellow to be made for himelf, in imitation of the s of  and. Having viewed the hoei, and conidered the variety of its s, as well as thoe of the s, he made s be  of different s, to make a ditinction between the great and mall, the rich and poor.

Nin-fong and Tche-tiang invented s for pounding ; s or : they invented the of building s, and of making ; they made s for the dead; and men reaped great advantages from all thee inventions. Hoei invented the, Y-meou s; Khy-pe invented the , which made a like , s and s, which imitated the voice of the.

Kong kou and Hoa-hu, by order of the Hoang ti, hollowed a  of which they made a ; of the branches of the ame  they made s; and by this means they were able to penetrate into places which eemed inacceible, and where men had never been.

For the transportation of by land, they alo invented s under this reign, and trained en and  to draw them.

Hoang-ti alo turned his thoughts to s, and gave models of them. He built a, called Ho kong, in which he to Chang-ti, or to the.

With a view to facilitate, Hoang-ti , called kine tao,  of , becaue it had the shape of the blade of a.

Hoang-ti having oberved that men died before the time fixed by, of which carried them off, he commanded Yu-fou, Ki-pe, and Lei-kong, three famous  of thee times, to ait him to determine what  were proper for each.

Si-ling-chi, the chief conort of that, contributed on her part to the good of the , and taught the people the of rearing , of  their cods, and making  of them.

The Ouai-ki takes notice, that Hoang-ti commanded to be meaured, and divided into s or tcheou. Each tcheou was compoed of ten che, each che was compoed of ten tou, and each tou contained ten ye, or ten. Thee ten ye, or, had each five ly, or , &c.

The of Hoang-ti, which, according to this, eems to have been coniderable, extended on     eeat to the , on the wet to Khong tong. It was bounded on the outh by Kiang, and on the north by the country of Hoene-jo.

They ay nothing that has any relation to the under the three s who follow Hoang-ti; that is to ay, under the reigns of Chao-hao, who reigned 84 s; of Tchouene-hio, who reigned 73 s; and of Cao ine, who reigned 70 s. They oberve only, that Chao-hao made them beat the watches with a : this uppoes that they had then  for marking the. The Se-ki adds, that this levelled the s, in order to render the s acceible, and that he cleared the channels of s. He made alo a new kind of, called Ta yuene, to unite men and , and reconcile high and low.

3. After having overcome the fatigue of o many traditions, we now come to the  times. But before we enter upon them, it will not be improper to make ome reflections which are abolutely neceary to hew how little regard is due to this ort of traditions. Thee reflections are thought to be o much the more important, as they will help to undeceive a great many people of the mitake they are in about the Chinee antiquities.

The Chinee began by three s, ditinguihed by the title of Sane-hoang, that is to ay the three . Thee three, according to the mot generally received opinion, are Fou hi, Chine-nong, and Hoang-ti. The five s, ucceors of the Sang-hoang, are ditinguihed by the title of Ou-ti, that is to ay, the five s. The five s are, Chao hao, Tchouene-hio, Tico, Yao, and Chune. This diviion has been followed by Cong-ngane-coue, the great grandon of Confucius, in the eighth generation, and one of the mot celebrated writers of the of Hane. It has been adopted alo by Hoang-fou-mi, and by mot part of the bet writers. The proofs of this opinion are taken partly from the book Tcheou li, an ancient record, or tate of the, which many acribe to the famous Tcheou-cong, and brother of Vou-vang, who was the founder of the   of Tcheou, eleven hundred and ome odd s before the  ; partly from the commentaries of To-kieou-mine on the Tchune-tieou of Confucius's mater. In thee works, mention is made of the books, Sane-fene, and Ou-tiene, which, they ay, are the of the three Hoang, and of the five Ti: now, the two first chapters of Chou-king, which contain an extract of the  of Yao and of Chune, bore the title of Tiene-yao and Tiene-Chune; from whence it was concluded, that Yao and Chune were two of the five Ti; conequently Fou-hi, Ching-nong, and Hoang ti, were what are called the three Hoang; and Chao-hao, Tchouene-hio, Tico, Yao, and Chune, were the five Ti.

Thee may perhaps be thought but feeble proofs to upport an fact of this kind; but thoe who are of a contrary opinion, bring nothing to induce us to believe them, rather than Cong-ngane-coue and Hoang-fou mi.

Hou-chouang-hou, in a preface before the Tiene-piene of Kine-gine-chane confees, that we find in the Tcheou-li, the exitence of the book of three Hoang, and that of five Ti: but he adds, that we do not find there the names of thee eight s; that, under the Tin, they poke of Tiene-hoang, of Ti-hoang, and of Gine-hoang; that Cong-ngane-coue, in his preface to Chou-