Note 115 — Chapter V
Reading edition
A passage quoted in T´ao lu, bk. ix., fol. 13, from an eighteenth–century work, the Wên fang ssŭ k´ao, forms a commentary on this attitude. "The old capital Kuan factory," It says, "had only a brief existence, so that we must consider the Hsiu nei ssŭ make to be first and the 'recent wares' to be second."