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1. In the first month of autumn, the sun is in Yî; the constellation culminating at dusk being Kien-hsing, and that culminating at dawn Pî.

2. Its days are kǎng and hsin.

3. Its divine ruler is Shâo Hâo, and the (attending) spirit is Zû-shđu.

4. Its creatures are the hairy.

5. Its musical note is Shang; its pitch-tube is Î 𝖅eh.

6. Its number is nine. Its taste is bitter. Its smell is rank.

7. Its sacrifice is that at the gate; and of the parts of the victim the liver has the foremost place.

8. Cool winds come; the white dew descends ; the cicada of the cold chirps. (Young) hawks at this