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 The ceremonies at the first spring new moon were similar to those at the first autumnal new moon.

++ As it seems the opinion of the more ancient men that the seven counsellors directed all the annual feasts, the probability is that when the whole nation assembled at those feasts, the time and manner of holding them were specified by the U ku through his seven counsellors; but when, as in late years they were celebrated by each town separately, they were ordered by A, li tu ni and Hi, lo ta, as there are town officers, and not national.