一切經音義 98.60

98.60

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).