Wu Collection, Lower Volume
Radical: Spirit (shì)
Character: Lǚ
Kangxi Strokes: 11
Page 842, Entry 13
Broad Rhymes (Guangyun): Pronounced lǚ (rising tone).
Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), Rhyme Meetings (Yunhui), Correct Rhymes (Zhengyun): Pronounced lǚ (rising tone).
The name of a sacrifice to mountains and rivers. Commonly written as the character for travel (lǚ).
Rites of Zhou (Zhouli), Ministry of Spring (Chunguan), Grand Minister of Rites (Dazongbo): When the state faces major disasters, it performs sacrifices to the Supreme Deity and the deities of the mountains and rivers in the four directions.
Annotation: This term denotes a type of sacrifice. Such sacrifices are performed to make petitions, and their rituals are less elaborate than those of regular sacrifices.
Analects of Confucius (Lunyu): The Ji family performed a sacrifice to Mount Tai.
Rhyme Meetings (Yunhui): Sometimes written in a variant form. Also written as the character for row (lú).
Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Table of the Six States (Liuguo biao): Performed a sacrifice in the suburbs.