ABSTRACT
Huang Ti Nei Ching itself. means that the ching-china and ching-1llob systems vvere already well understood before that systematisation \vas put do\vn in the writing that we have now, a fact which adds further \veight to \vhat \\Te shall say later (pp. I I I ff.) about the long antecedent background of the Nei Ching. In another place, earlier on, we encountered a further exalnple of the analogical use of the term 1no, also worth recalling here. At the end of his life ( - 2 10), the general Meng Thien, I accused of impiety and all sorts of imaginary crimes during his service to the Chhin emperor, remarked: 'How could I build the Great Wall \vithout cutting through the veins of the earth? 'c So ti l1l0 2 was a conlmonplace in those days, and indeed the expression shan m03 for a range of mountains has continued on in physiographical usage until the present time.
