Note 49 — V. THE TAOIST PRIEST OF LAO-SHAN.
Herbert Allen Giles translation
The beautiful wife of a legendary chieftain, named Hou I, who flourished about 2,500 B.C. She is said to have stolen from her husband the elixir of immortality, and to have fled with it to the moon. return to footnote anchor 49 return to footnote anchor 147 return to Vol. II. footnote anchor 12