Note 63 — Chapter III
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ts´ui sê. Ts´ui is the colour of "a bird with blue–green feathers: a kingfisher" (Giles), and it seems to have been used indifferently to express a bluish green colour and greenish blue like turquoise. In Lu Kuei–mêng's poem it suggests the colour of distant hills. A passage in a seventeenth–century work, the Ch´i sung t´ang shih hsiao lu (quoted in the T´ao lu, bk. ix., fol. 8), seems to imply that there were lustrous reflections in the glaze of some of the Yüeh wares. It runs, "Yüeh yao cups with small feet are of the light green (ch´ing) of the chestnut husk; when turned sideways they are the colour of emerald green jade (fei ts´ui)."
