DONGJING MENG HUA LU / 卷十
駕還詣諸宮行謝
The thanks are paid.
Three days of thanks at the Jingling palaces close the sacrifice, followed by an outing to other palaces, temples or a minister’s house, and a market note about rice cakes, quail and hare.
READ THE AFTERMATH ↓1. Thanks, an outing and the market.
駕還內，擇日詣景靈東、西宮，行恭謝之禮三日。第三日畢，即游幸別宮觀或大臣私第。是月賣糍餻、鶉兔方盛。
After the carriage returned to the inner palace, a day was chosen to go to the East and West Palaces of Jingling and perform the rite of respectful thanks for three days. When the third day was finished, he would then make an outing to other palaces and temples, or to the private mansion of a senior minister. In this month, rice cakes and quail and hare are on sale in full abundance.
In three sentences the sacrifice is closed, rest begins, and the market resumes. The thanks are paid in two palaces over three days, on a day that is chosen, not fixed, and the text does not say to whom thanks are offered. After the third day the emperor goes out, and the destinations given are other palaces and temples or the private mansion of a senior minister. The last line leaves the court altogether: this month the markets are full of rice cakes, quail and hare. The great rite ends on a menu, which is how the calendar of the book moves on.
A short entry, three open points.
The page reads 三日 with the rite, as the following 第三日畢 supports: the thanks last three days.
The page reads 景靈東、西宮 as the East and West Palaces of Jingling. The two are named as destinations for the rite; the text gives no further description.
The entry says “this month” and does not name it. The page does not supply one; the calendar is carried by the book’s order of entries.
The pair of palaces, east and west, where the thanks are performed for three days.
The rite of thanks that follows the sacrifice; here three days long.
The interior of the palace, to which the carriage returns before the rite of thanks.
The emperor’s going out to other palaces, temples or a senior minister’s private house.
Sticky rice cakes, one of the foods the markets sell in abundance this month.
Game birds and hares, sold alongside the rice cakes.
Entry 84 closes the sacrifice in one paragraph: three days of thanks, an outing to a palace, a temple or a minister’s house, and a line about what the markets sell. The text then turns to the calendar again. Entry 85 begins the last month of the year.
是月賣糍餻、鶉兔方盛。The sequence is Meng’s. The punctuation is editorial.
The primary text is read from the Siku-family witness (Kanripo KR2k0111, 卷十); punctuation and the standardization of Siku variant glyphs are editorial. The entry is a single paragraph; no variant or lacuna in the Siku scan affects it.