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The second half of the rite dramatically enacts the sending of the Writ
to the underworld. The priests take the stage carrying a paper figure of the
Officer of Pardon (sheguan #J. rff, the official who delivers the Writ) and his
horse. They give the Officer a drink of wine and feed the horse with straw.
Then they run around the open space, leaping and somersaulting, miming
the journey to the underworld.

ASANO Haruji
aD Lagerwey 1987C, 202-15; 6fuchi Ninji 1983, 496-502 and 655-57; Schipper
1989b, 128-37

* gongde

Fanghu waishi

The External Secretary of Mount Fanghu

This collection of *neidan works by *Lu Xixing (1520-1601 or 1606), so entitled
after one of his appellations, dates from the Longqing period (1567-72). It was
printed in either 1571 or 1572, as two of its works bear prefaces by Lu dated
1571. The second edition, published by Zhao Song !lfi %: during the Wanli
period (1573-1620), was not printed before 1580, the date of Zhao's preface to
Lu's commentary to the Daode jingo The third edition was published by Zheng
Guanying ~[) mI. ff~ in 1915 and contains his "Preface to the New Engraving
(xinzi tJTfn of the Fanghu waishi."
The collection includes ten commentaries and four original works by Lu
Xixing, not all of which bear dates. The commentaries are on the *Xinyin jing
(Scripture of the Mind Seal; 1571), the *Yinfujing (Scripture of the Hidden Ac-
cordance; 1567), the *Ruyao jing (Mirror for Compounding the Medicine), the
Baizi bei f:'f 't fi!1! (Hundred-Word Stele; 1571; a short work attributed to *Ui
Dongbin, trans. Cleary I991a, 239-52), the *Jindan sibai zi (Four Hundred Words
on the Golden Elixir), the Jindan yinzheng shi jfr: +t Er] lift ~,'t (Verses on the Attes-
tation of the Golden Elixir; by Longmei zi ~~ fl'lf , Southern Song period), the
Qingtian ge W *- ~ (Song of the Blue Heaven; 1571; attributed to *Qiu Chuji),
the *Wuzhen pian (Folios on Awakening to Reality), the Daode jing (1566), and
two commentaries to the *Zhouyi cantong qi (Token for the Agreement of the
Three According to the Book of Changes; 1569 and 1573). Lu Xixing's own works
are the Xuanfu lun 'R 1ft ~ (An Essay on the Surface of the Mystery; 1567), the
Jindanjiuzhengpian ~ft)jiJtiEm (Folios on Seeking the Proper Understanding