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generates the One, the One generates the Two, the Two generate the Three,
and the Three generate the ten thousand things." The rite of Curtain-raising
consists of rolling up the curtain that covers a scroll bearing the Chinese
character for "portal" (que ~ , meaning the Golden Portal). This character
symbolizes the palaces of the deities, and the action of raising the curtain an-
nounces to the deities that the ritual is about to begin. In the rite of Sounding
the Golden Bell and Striking the Jade Gong, the sounds produced by striking a
jade musical gong and a golden bell cause Yin and Yang to reverberate around
the altar area. The jade gong (representing Heaven) is placed to the right on
the central table where the priest performs the ritual, and the golden bell
(representing Earth) is one of the gongs used by the musicians to the left of
the altar. They are played by the assistant cantor (fujiang MU ~) and by one of
the percussionists, respectively.
All three rites have their origin in purification ceremonies performed before
the "opening of the altar" (kaitan 00 11) according to the *Lingbao ritual. In
present-day Taiwan, they are performed late on the first night of a zhai or a
jiao lasting more than two days. In view of their present position in the ritual,
their essentially preparatory nature seems to have been obscured.
ASANO Haruji
m Lagerwey 1987C, 55; Ofuchi Ninji 1983, 266- 71; Qing Xitai 1994, 3: 2II- 13;
Schipper 1975C
~ gongde; jiao; zhai

Fengbo

Count of the Wind

Fengbo, also known as Fengshi JjJjfi (Master of the Wind) and Jibo ~ 18
(Count of the Basket), is the deity of the wind. In the Lisao MH (Encounter-
ing Sorrow), a poem included in the Chuci ~ rt# (Songs of Chu; trans. Hawkes
1985,67-95), Feilian ~. , the attendant who appears in the scene where Qu
Yuan Jlli)}jl is departing for the abode of the Celestial Emperor, corresponds to
Fengbo, as does the Basket (ji ~, Sagittarius), one of the twenty-eight lunar
lodges (see *xiu). In the Han Feizi ~~~ T (Book of Master Han Fei; trans. Liao
1939- 59, I: 76- 77), when the Yellow Emperor (*Huangdi) gathers all the demons
and deities at Mount Tai (*Taishan, Shandong), Fengbo sweeps the path and
*Yushi, the deity of rain, sprinkles water on it. In the Zhouli fi'fJ;f! (Rites of