一切經音義 98.60

98.60

八蜡（查詐反廣雅[示*昔]祭也夏曰清祀殷曰嘉平周曰大蜡秦曰臘也禮記云天子大[示*昔]八伊耆氏始為[示*昔]也歲十二月而合聚万物而索之饗也古今正字云八蜡者索也從示昔聲集作蜡亦通也）。

Eight Zha sacrifices: 蜡 [zha] (查 + 詐 fanqie. The Guangya says: "'Zha' is a sacrifice. The Xia dynasty called it qingsi; the Yin called it jiaping; the Zhou called it dazha; the Qin called it la." The Liji says: "The Son of Heaven held the eight Great Zha sacrifices; Lord Yiqi was the first to institute the Zha. In the twelfth month of the year, all things were gathered together and summoned to be banqueted." The Gujin zhengzi says: "'The eight Zha' means to seek out and summon. Analyzed: from radical 示 'altar', with 昔 phonetic." In the collection it is written as 蜡, which is also interchangeable).