177.	考	世	系	${\displaystyle \scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}}$	and the genealogical connections should be examined,
	K'ao3	shih4	hsi4
	Examine	generation	connect

K'ao is composed of 老 lao old (line 24) abbreviated, and an obsolete phonetic. It originally meant old; then it came to signify a dead father; now it is the common term for examination.

Shih is composed of three 十 shih tens, thirty years being the Chinese estimate of the length of a generation of men. It is also used in the sense of mankind, the world.

Hsi is 糸 ssŭ silk, with a dash at the top, and means to tie, to bind. [Eitel translates this line by "Searching their chapters on genealogy and their family records." But hsi has no such meaning as "records."]

178.	知	終	始	${\displaystyle \scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}}$	so that the end of one dynasty and the beginning of the next may be known.
	Chih1	chung1	shih3
	Know	end	beginning

Chih see lines 28, 70.

Chung see line 113.

Shih see line 134. [Eitel continues "So as to know both the end and the beginning of history."]

179.	自	羲	農	${\displaystyle \scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}}$	From Fu Hsi and Shên Nung
	Tzŭ4	hsi1	nung2
	From	vapour	till

Tzŭ see line 93.

Hsi is composed of 兮 hsi separation of vapour, later a particle of emphasis (an old radical), with 義 i (line 14) as phonetic. It originally meant vapour, but here stands for the name of the legendary Emperor 伏 Fu (or 庖 P'ao) 羲 Hsi, who reigned B.C. 2953—2838, and is said to have developed the Diagrams