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HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION

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W^N CHANG SHAN TOU CH'iNG     SHOU                CHI HSIANG JU I

   "Scholarship high as  "Congratu- "Longevity" "Good fortune and
the mountains and the      lations" A curious form, fulfilment of wishes"

Great Bear!"                  known in Hol-

                              land as the Spider

                                      mark

    SHOU Tl NAN SHAN,              RUNG MING FU KUEI,
      FU JU TUNG HAI                HUNG FU CH'i T'iEN

"                             'A famous name, riches and honor,
  Long-lived as the Southern
                                 abounding happiness reaching
 hills, happy as the Eastern                    to heaven!"

                    seas"

Ti HUA CH'aNG CH'uN.
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