皆有定價
方相定價車輿定價結絡定價綵帛定價
DONGJING MENG HUA LU / 卷四
雜賃
Death has a price list.
Meng compresses the rental economy into two price signals. Funeral establishments keep fixed procedures and fixed prices for every piece of the cortege. A hired horse can be found by any lane, bridge or market — and it never costs more than one hundred cash.
READ THE PRICE BOARD ↓00 / THE FUNERAL TARIFF
Four items, one rule: fixed prices.
For funerals — 自上而下, read on this page as from the grandest cortege to the humblest — the funeral establishments each keep their own procedures, and every named item carries a fixed price. The customer's effort has been priced out of the transaction.
The exorcist figure led at the head of the procession.
定價The cortege's vehicles.
定價Decorative network and streamers on the cortege — a working gloss, kept open rather than asserted.
定價Silk cloth for funeral display.
定價100NOT MORE THAN / 不過百錢
01 / THE MOBILITY CEILING
Distance is capped at a hundred cash.
For ordinary business across the city, when the road runs long and the legs tire, hired saddled horses wait along the lanes, bridges and markets. The entry gives one number as its ceiling. What a "hundred" meant in Kaifeng counting belongs to Entry 23's 錢陌 conventions; this page does not convert it into modern money. ↗ ENTRY 23 / 都市錢陌
1. Grief is itemized like inventory.
若凶事出殯，自上而下，凶肆各有體例。如方相、車輿、結絡、綵帛，皆有定價，不須勞力。尋常出街市幹事，稍似路遠倦行，逐坊巷橋市，自有假賃鞍馬者，不過百錢。
WORKING TRANSLATION
For funerals and burial processions — from the top of the scale down — the funeral establishments each kept their own procedures. The exorcist figure, the funeral vehicles, the netting and the colored silks all carried fixed prices; there was no need to labor over arrangements. For ordinary business in the streets, when the way was a little long and walking tired you, saddled horses for hire could be found along the lanes, bridges and markets — never costing more than a hundred cash.
GALOK READING
The entry names no rite, no family and no shop. The information Meng keeps is that prices exist, are fixed, and are not negotiated item by item. Grief becomes one more standard article of urban commerce — and the same sentence structure that prices the dead then prices the tired walker.
A short entry with two open readings.
Read here as "across status levels, from grand to humble." The alternative — "from the start to the finish of the rites" — remains compatible with the sentence and is not ruled out.
Siku-family variant forms in this entry; the working text uses the standard characters and keeps the variants in the trail.
One hundred cash is a ceiling, not a converted price. Entry 23 documents Kaifeng's short-陌 conventions; no modern equivalent is asserted here.
The shops that supplied funeral goods and cortege services.
The exorcist figure that led the procession.
The cortege's wheeled vehicles.
Decorative network and streamers; the page keeps this gloss open.
Silk cloth for funeral display.
The hired horse of the second half of the entry.
Entry 32 shows the rental economy handling the city's two non-negotiables. The funeral is itemized like inventory; the walk across town is capped like a fare. In both, the customer's effort has already been priced out of the transaction.
皆有定價，不須勞力。04 / SOURCE TRAIL
Prices are quoted. Conversions are not.
The primary text is read against the Siku-family witness (Kanripo KR2k0111) and the Gutenberg transcription #24137. The 百錢 ceiling stays in source units, read beside Entry 23's counting conventions; the gloss on 結絡 is marked as a working reading.