一切經音義 87.213

87.213

壇纂（上但丹反鄭玄注禮記封土為壇祭處也壇之言怛怛明皇也下鑽𮅕反𮅕音酸纂反案壇纂之式者每醮祭之時於壇四面立木節刻畫其土或毛者也若今楚人每有所禱則縛茅為把短截貫於竿上插立於地設香酒祈之祭訖方去也非纂集之義也）。

Altar-bundle (壇纂) (the first character is pronounced dan-dan fan; Zheng Xuan's commentary on the Liji says: "Heaping up earth forms an altar [tan], which is a place for sacrifices. Tan comes from the idea of wide openness [dada], bright and august." The second character is pronounced zang-suan fan, suan has the sound of suan [酸]; an examination of the ritual layout of the altar-bundle shows: at each time of holding a jiao sacrifice, on the four sides of the altar they erect wooden tallies and carve on the earth or thatch; as today when the people of Chu make a prayer, they bind cogon grass into a bundle, cut it short and thread it onto a pole, stick it upright in the ground, and arrange incense and wine to pray, leaving only after the sacrifice is complete. It does not carry the meaning of compiling [zuan] into a collection).