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Lao-tzŭ having now settled all his mundane affairs, bade farewell to the keeper of the Pass, telling him that he would return to earth after the lapse of a thousand days and that he would be recognised by the sign of a Chʽing Yang (青羊), literally, an azure sheep. He then mounted a cloud and soared out of sight of the weeping Yin-hsi in a dazzling glare of light away into the etherial regions, to his home in the heavens.ssss1

ssss1 Tʽai-pʽing-kwang-chī (太平廣志) ch. 1; and the Shen-hsien-chuan, vol. 1.

ssss1 Shi-chi—老莊申韓列傳三

ssss1 An author named Chʽen (陳) quoted by Ma Tuan-lin, says that, as Tan means flat-eared, it is not probable that it would be given as a posthumous title. Perhaps it is better to regard it as a name or nickname given to him during life.

ssss1 Wên-hsíen-tʽung-kʽao (文獻通考), Ch. 211.

ssss1 Chine, p. 111.

ssss1 Tao-tê-king, Introduction, Note 1 on page xix.

ssss1 See the 十字全書, the extract from Szŭ Ma-chien.

ssss1 Dict. Villes et Arrond., p. 244.

ssss1 Julien, Tao-tê-king, Introduction, Note 2 on page xix.