Note 128 — Chapter V
Reading edition
Sê ch´ing tai fên hung. A more literal rendering of this phrase is "the colour of the glaze is ch´ing, with a tinge of red," which would refer to the reddish tone of a pale lavender glaze. On the other hand, the word tai is apparently used to describe the contrasting colours in parti–coloured jade and agate, e.g. huang sê tai t´u pan in Laufer (Jade, p. 140) to describe "yellow jade with earthy spots," and again (op. cit., p. 142), ch´ing yü tai hei sê, "green jade with passages of black colour."