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In this month
(the fishermen) should not let the streams and meres run dry,
nor drain off all the water from the dams and ponds, (in order to catch all the fish),
nor should (the hunters) fire the hills and forests.
天子The son of Heaven at this time offers a lamb (to the ruler of cold), and opens the (reservoirs of) ice.
Before (using it generally), they offer some in their principal apartment or in the ancestral temple.
On the first ting day
orders are given to the chief director of Music to exhibit the civil dances
and unfold the offerings of vegetables (to the inventor of music).
天子諸侯The son of Heaven, at the head of the three ducal ministers, his nine high ministers, the feudal princes (at court), and his Great officers, goes in person to see the ceremony.
On the second ting day
orders are given again to the same chief to enter the college, and practise music (with his pupils).


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