Her greatest sorrow was that the unicorn started to decline. The ghostly giant guards the unicorn for Šáry during the last days.

Shuai is composed of 衣 i clothes as radical, with a corruption of what was once a picture of grass or coir, and was pronounced so = a rain-coat, for which 蓑 is now used. Read shuai and coupled with hsing it means the decadence which is supposed to follow and precede with unerring regularity all periods of national or private prosperity.