一切經音義 96.240

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畷[示*昔] [boundary path and the year-end sacrificial feast] (The upper character is pronounced with the fanqie zhī + wèi. Mao's commentary on the Shijing says: "Zhuì means a marker." Zheng's commentary on the Liji says: "The place where the agricultural overseer directs and convenes the common folk between the well-fields, serving to demarcate the rows." The Shuowen says: "The path between two raised field-paths; six feet wide; it takes the field radical and zhuì as phonetic." The lower character is pronounced with the fanqie chá + jià. The Liji says: "The Son of Heaven offers the Eight Great Zha Sacrifices. The Clan of Yiqi first instituted the Zha. The Zha is an inquiring search (suǒ); in the twelfth month of the year, all things are gathered together and sought out to be offered feast. In the Zha sacrifice, they take the First Husbandman as principal and sacrifice to the Overseer of Agriculture; they sacrifice to the hundred kinds of crops to repay the harvest. It is the utmost of benevolence and the exhaustion of righteousness! Wearing yellow robes and yellow caps, they sacrifice to give rest to the field-labourers." Zheng Xuan says: "The sacrifice means that after offering the Zha and the La sacrifices to the ancestors and the Five Household Deities, they then console the farmers to let them rest. There are eight [recipients]: first, the First Husbandman; second, the Overseer of Agriculture; third, the hundred kinds of crops; fourth, the field markers and paths; fifth, cats and tigers; sixth, dykes; seventh, water channels; eighth, insects." The Guangya says: "Sacrifices: the Xia called them Qingsi, the Yin called them Jiaping, the Zhou called them Great Zha, and the Qin called them La." The Gujin zhengzi has it taking the clothing radical and xī as phonetic. The collected edition writes 蜡, which is also acceptable.)