 At the annual Great Exorcism (nuo 儺), when the Nanwu play a central role: after either presenting offerings or shooting arrows (which of the two remains unclear) at the evil spirits in the four directions, they (according to Zheng Xuan) accompany them outside, away from human habitations" (tr. von Falkenhausen 1995: 291) The received Zhouli text has zèng 贈 "to present" but Zheng Xuan mentions an old variant of zèng 矰 "to shoot arrows".
<coherence>  At the annual Great Exorcism (nuo 儺), when the Nanwu play a central role: after either presenting offerings or shooting arrows (which of the two remains unclear) at the evil spirits in the four directions, they (according to Zheng Xuan) accompany them outside, away from human habitations" (tr. von Falkenhausen 1995: 291) The received Zhouli text has zèng 贈 "to present" but Zheng Xuan mentions an old variant of zèng 矰 "to shoot arrows".
 At the annual Great Exorcism (nuo 儺), when the Nanwu play a central role: after either presenting offerings or shooting arrows (which of the two remains unclear) at the evil spirits in the four directions, they (according to Zheng Xuan) accompany them outside, away from human habitations" Tr. . The received Zhouli text has zèng 贈 "to present" but Zheng Xuan mentions an old variant of zèng 矰 "to shoot arrows".