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193.	四	百	載	$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$	After four hundred years,
	Ssŭ⁴	pai³	tsai³
	Four	hundred	year

Ssŭ see title.

Pai see line 46.

Tsai⁴ is composed of 車 ch'ê cart as radical, and an obsolete phonetic (line 151), and originally meant to contain, to load, full, complete, etc. Read tsai³ it means a year, which sense seems to have been derived from full, complete. There are however other and more fanciful explanations. [Four hundred is a round number. The Hsia dynasty lasted from B.C. 2205—1766. Eitel says to 1818, but this was the date of the accession of the last Emperor.]

194.	遷	夏	社	$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$	the Imperial sacrifice passed from the House of Hsia.
	Ch'ien¹	hsia⁴	shê⁴
	Move	Hsia	sacrifice

Ch'ien see line 6.

Hsia see line 57.

Shê is composed of 示 shih divine manifestation as radical, and 土 t'u earth, and originally meant lord or spirit of the earth; hence, sacrifices to such spirits, the sacrificial communion of the Emperor, the Son of Heaven, with the Supreme Being. [Eitel has, "When at last Heaven removed Hia's tutelary altar." But there is no need to supply Heaven as a subject to ch’ien; the root idea is sufficient.]

195.	湯	伐	夏	$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$	T'ang the Completer destroyed the Hsia dynasty
	T'ang¹	fa¹	hsia⁴
	T'ang	fell	hsia

T'ang see line 188.