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Sze-ma Khien says that this barbarous practice began with Mu's predecessor, with whom sixty-six persons were buried alive, and that one hundred and seventy-seven in all were buried with Mu. The death of the last distinguished man of the House of Khin, the emperor , was subsequently celebrated by the entombment with him of all the inmates of his harem.
The tree put forth leaves once every three thousand years, and it required three thousand years after that for the fruit to ripen. These were Hsi Wang Mu's birthdays, when all the Immortals assembled for the great feast, "the occasion being more festive than solemn, for there was music on invisible instruments, and songs not from mortal tongues." The First Taoist Pope
The Feast of Peaches Hsi Wang Mu's palace is situated in the high mountains of the snowy K'un-lun. Its right wing rises on the edge of the Kingfishers' River.
I thoroughly believe in the old man in the Royal Library, and the riding away on oxback at last into the west, where was Si Wang Mu's Faery Garden, and the Gobi Desert, with sundry oases therein whereof we have heard.
Then died duke Mu, after playing an important part in the north-west of China for thirty-nine years. The Zo Kwan, under the sixth year of duke Wan, makes mention of Mu's requiring that the three brothers here celebrated should be buried with him, and of the composition of this piece in consequence.
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