廣弘明集 13.114

13.114

The External Treatise states: In the teaching of Laozi, deportment, prostrations, bowings, yielding, dark caps, yellow coarse garments, holding tablets, and trailing shoes manifest the principles in outward forms. These are indeed the ancient regulations of China. (A refutation notes: Daoist masters originally wore Ruist attire, no different from commoners. Only in the reign of Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou did they begin wearing crosswise mantles with twenty-four seams to correspond to the twenty-four qi of yin and yang. This arose from human contrivance and lacks any canonical basis.) The Śākya instructions prescribe the kāṣāya, with the collar to the left and baring the right shoulder; a skirt made of an entire bolt of plain cloth; and a garment draped over one shoulder. With shaved hair, exposed crowns, sitting like dogs, and crouching like foxes, they do not participate in human relations, which is truly the custom of the barbarian tribes. How could such forms and attire compare with our decorum? This is the ninth [difference], the difference in deportment and attire.