廣弘明集 13.70

13.70

The Bodhisattva says: Long ago, Yu Jiuxing of Danyang composed the Mingzhen lun to refute the Daoists and expose their falsity and deceit. Examining that treatise, it says that the cap and coarse cloth robe are precisely the attire worn in ancient days by Confucians and Mohists. In the past, the deer-hide cap of the Five Thearchs and the leather cap of Xu You were both the attire of common people. The coarse robe had a body three zhang and six chi long, with three hundred and sixty inches, said to model the thirty-six decans of a year or symbolize the three hundred and sixty days of a year. The coarse robe had two sashes in front, said to model the division of yin and yang. The two corners of the cap likewise modeled the Two Modes. Mr. Yu also said: during the Zhou and Qin, the tenth month of the Xia was taken as the beginning of the year; when it comes to the degrees of the celestial divisions, the additions and subtractions, and the calculations of calendar cycles, how could one obtain the number three hundred and sixty? If one investigates Yao, Shun, Zhou, and Confucius, they did not wear this attire. Inquiring into the Yellow Emperor's encounter with the August Person and the spirits of the Nine Realized Ones, which then descended to Emperor Ku and down to Yu of the Xia, who opened the repositories of Mount Tu and Mount Zhong, examining all these garments there is not a single piece of evidence for them. According to the Zhou, they had the omen of the red sparrow and experienced the auspicious sign of the cinnabar writing; since this corresponded to the virtue of Fire, the world wore red robes. Lao was a man of the Zhou and furthermore a petty official; in cap and shoes he prostrated himself, naturally adhering to the constant rituals. Those who are called 'parish heads' were originally named 'ghost soldiers'; their yellow turbans and red registers did not follow Boyang. In consecrating water and executing talismans, they took the Zhang clan as their direct master. Being neither Daoist nor mundane, whose tradition did they emulate?