釋門歸敬儀 2.5

English (machine translation) 2.5

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2.5

The first is called bowing the head to the ground (jisou), which refers to the bow of a minister to a ruler. Ji is glossed as "to delay" (phonetic gloss: ji-xi), meaning to stay and linger for a long time, with the head touching the ground for a short while.

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釋門歸敬儀 — Classical Chinese