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[[underlined]] Chapter XI. [[/underlined]]  223.

"feudal" state.
      There were of course intervals of peace between the two peoples. We even hear of intermarriages between their respective ruling families, and of the employment of Ti by the Chinese as auxiliary troops and as servants. But in general their relations seem to have been antagonistic. Though very slowly and at the cost of much hard fighting, the Ti were finally conquered---the Red Ti by Chin about the beginning of the 6th century, the White Ti by Chao early in the 3rd, before our Era.
      After their subjugation, the Ti became mere predial serfs of their Chinese overlords. [[superscript]] (206) [[/superscript]] Ultimately they were absorbed into the great body
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[[superscript]] (206) [[/superscript]] Thus the [[underlined]] Tso chuan [[/underlined]] (perhaps our best though by no means our only source concerning the Ti), VII, xv, 5, tells us that the ruler of Chin conferred upon a certain individual a gift of 1000 households of Ti vassals.
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of the Chinese peasantry of later times.
    Our interest in the Ti was of course primarily archaeological; for they too, like the Mo whom we have just discussed^[[,]] [[strikethrough]] (see pp. 219 [[underlined]] sq. [[/underlined]]), [[/strikethrough]] seem to have had a culture reminiscent in many ways of that which had once existed in northern Neolithic China. Possibly Tungusic in their ethnic composition---though of that we have no direct evidence---the Ti are described as differing from the Chinese in speech; as living in  [[underlined]] hsûeh [[/underlined]] [[Chinese character]]); [[superscript]] (207) [[/superscript]] as wearing garments of "feathers and hair" ([[Chinese characters]]; what
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[[superscript]] (207) [[/superscript]]
   Professor Karlgren ([[underlined]] Anal. Dict. [[/underlined]], no. 171, page 177) defines a [[underlined]] hsüeh [[/underlined]] as "a pit or cave dug in the earth". The "Seal" form of the character seems to represent a vertical section, with domed and timbered roof, of a pit-dwelling entered from the top, eactly like the ones that we later excavated on prehistoric sites in southwestern Shansi; [[underlined]] cf.[[/underlined]] fig. [[strikethrough]] 31[[/strikethrough]] ^[[48]] and see also pp. 379 .[[underlined]] sqq.[[/underlined]]
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seems to be meant here is clothing not of woven material but of birds' down and animals' fur, like that still used by many peoples of northeastern Asia ^[[);]] and as being in part growers (lit. "eaters") of grain. [[superscript]] (208) [[/superscript]] The Ti are further said to have shifted their habitations

 

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