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 310 COBEAN SOCIAL CUSTOMS. (mulberry) tree.* There are many varieties of paper, pencil, ink, and of the stone slab on which the ink is ground. Writing ink is now made almost wholly of lamp-black. The liberal branches of Education are six — Ist, Rites; 2nd, Music; Srd, Archery; 4th, Charioteering ; 5th, Literature; and 6lh, Reckoning. The first includes rites (1) of marriage, (2) of death, (3) hospitality, (4) war, and (5) puberty. The second includes (1) Tivun, that of Whangdi (B.C. 26971); (2) Hienchu of Yao (b.c. 2357) ; (3) Dashao of Shwun (bc. 2255); (4) Dahia of Yu Wang (rc. 2205) ; (5) Dahoo of Tang Wang of Yin (RC. 1766) ; (6) Dawoo of Woo Wang (rc. 1122) ! The third includes (1) Shooting with the white (willow) arrow; (2) with the three arrows (two of which were attached to the one in the bow); (3) with a sharp pointed arrow which can penetrate ; (4) a foot grace ; 1"^(5) a square of four archera The fourth includes (1) a bell on the cart, and another on the horse; J (2) to'drive beside the stream ; (3) to leave a clear way || for the superior man ; (4) to drive along the high road ; and (5) in hunting, to drive up to left of quarry. The fifth has been noted above. The sixth is applied to all kinds of Reckoning in which numbers are used, of which nine are enumerated : — Fangtien, square measure ; Sooboo, proportion ; Powfun, division ; Shaogwang, evolution ; Sha/ng gocmg, solid mensuration ; Jvnin Shoo, allegation; Yvngniw, addition and subtraction; Fang- chuTig, equation ; and Oowgoo, trigonometry, — the names only of Yoongxong, in Chihii ; and large tracts of rich country are laid out wholly in young mulberries, out down in their second year, and their inner bark converted into an extremely strong and cheap paper; used there, and in all Chihii, to paper windows ; and in the various Yamens and great shops for writing, as it is almost indestructible. The common printer*s ink is in Liaotung still made of biumt pine soot, mixed with water and a little glue. The wood is set on fire in an underground tunnel, and the soot afterwards collected. This ink is extremely cheap, and well fitted for printing. t One foot ahead allowed the prince. I^Ptabably to warn. II Possibly to prevent injuring ground or crops. There are no game laws in China ; and the only laws of trespass are those of custom.
 * This industry is at the present time extremely common over aU the prefecture