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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Claude Larre: The character for kidneys is shen. The part below is radical 130 flesh or part of the body. which is used in the characters for all the twelve organs except for the heart which being master is not a part of the body and the triple heater which evades all the organ structures. The upper part on the left hand side is a slave but because the Chinese used to select those slaves with ability for use at court it also means a servant or a minister. It is someone who is in a prostrate and bowing position before the king (see Wieger Lesson 82E). The right hand section of the upper part (x) is the right hand itself. The hand here takes the place of the king because the one who has power is the one who is able to make gestures and to pull people along like animals by their hand. The fact that the slave/minister and the lord are facing each other is a ritualistic position because the lord faces south and the minister must therefore face north. (LL)