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ing insight" (shenming ;f$ SA), must act in conformity to changes in that order
through the seasons and practice *wuwei (non-striving). Others also point
out the importance of the doctrine of xingming %;g ("forms and names")
in Huang-Lao political thought. Harold D. Roth, on the other hand, argues
that Sima Tan's description of the Taoists (*DAO]IA) preserved in the Shiji
(I30.3288-92) represents a late-second-century understanding of Huang-Lao
and that it possessed three orientations, "cosmology, psychology (or psycho-
physiology), and political thought," adopting ideas from the Confucians, the
Mohists, the Terminologists (mingjia ;g *), and the Legalists (Roth I99Ib; Roth
I999a). Mark Csikszentmihalyi (I994), followed by Robin D. S. Yates (I997),
prefers to understand Huang-Lao as a tradition or group of traditions that
included many different aspects, myth, political philosophy, military thought,
divination, and medicine. Until further discoveries are made or new research
throws light on the subject, these views are perhaps closest to capturing the
essence of Huang-Lao.

Robin D. S. YATES
m Chang L. S. and Yu Feng I998; Chen Guying I995; Csikszentmihalyi I994;
Emmerich I995; van Ess I993b;Jan Yiin-hua I980; Jan Yiin-hua 1983; Lin Cong-
shun I99I; Major I993, 8-I4 and 43-53; Peerenboom I993; Robinet I997b, 47- 48;
Roth I987b; Ryden I997; Seidel I969, I8-26; Si Xiuwu I992; Tang Lan I974; Tu
Wei-ming I979; Yates I997; Yu Mingguang I989; Yu Mingguang et al. I993

huanglu z hai

Yellow Register Retreat

The Yellow Register Retreat is one of the Three Register Retreats (sanlu zhai
= ~~), along with the Golden Register and the Jade Register Retreats (*jinlu
zhai and *yulu zhai). *Lu Xiujing (406- 77) ranked it second among the *Lingbao
rites. According to his Wugan wen 11. ~)( (Text on the Five Commemorations;
CT I278), the number and dimensions of the gates of the sacred space that
was prepared for this ritual were the same as those for the Golden Register
Retreat, although here ten lamps, ten gates of the inner altar, and three in-
cense burners were placed along its four sides. The number of days was also
the same as for a Golden Register Retreat. There is, in fact, little difference
in form and structure between the Yellow Register and the Golden Register
Retreats. While the Golden Register Retreat could be performed only by the