Part V. The Books Of K And IAu. Book Xxv : * p. 250 BOOK XXV. THE KN-Y. ACCORDING to the note in the Preface to the Sh, the charge delivered in this Book to "K"n-y, or possibly 'the prince Y,' was by king M; and its dictum is not challenged by any Chinese critic. The reign of king "Kh"o, who succeeded to Khang, is thus passed over...
Shih King. Major Odes. The Third Decade. Part 05 : * p. 413 ODE 2. THE Y. CONTAINING VARIOUS COUNSELS WHICH DUKE W OF WEI MADE TO ADMONISH HIMSELF, WHEN HE WAS OVER HIS NINETIETH YEAR; ESPECIALLY ON THE DUTY OF A RULER TO BE CAREFUL OF HIS OUTWARD DEMEANOUR, FEELING THAT HE IS EVER UNDER THE INSPECTION OF SPIRITUAL BEINGS, AND TO RECEIVE WITH...
Part V. The Books Of K And IAu. Book Iv : * BOOK IV. THE GREAT PLAN. THE Great Plan, ordinarily classed among the 'Counsels' or among the 'Instructions' of the Sh, might as well have a place among the 'Canons.' It is a remarkable production, and though it appears among the documents of the "K"u dynasty, there is claimed for the substance...
The Hsiao King. Chapter Vi. Filial Piety : * CHAPTER VI. FILIAL PIETY IN THE COMMON PEOPLE. They follow the course of heaven (in the revolving seasons); they distinguish the advantages p. 472 afforded by (different) soils 1; they are careful of their conduct and economical in their expenditure;--in order to nourish their parents:--this is...
Part Iv. The Books Of Shang. Book X : * p. 120 BOOK X. THE CHIEF OF THE WEST'S CONQUEST OF L. THE reigns of seven more kings of Yin or Shang have passed, and this Book brings us to the time of "K"u-hsin or Shu, its last sovereign, B.C. 1154-1123. The House of "K"u begins to come to the front, for 'the Chief of the West' was one...
Shi King. Lessons From The States. Book Vi : * p. 440 ODE 9, STANZAS 1 AND 3. THE T K. A LADY EXCUSES HERSELF FOR NOT FLYING TO HER LOVER BY HER FEAR OF A SEVERE AND VIRTUOUS MAGISTRATE, AND SWEARS TO HIS THAT SHE IS SINCERE IN HER ATTACHMENT TO HIM. His great carriage rolls along, And his robes of rank glitter like the young sedge. Do I not...
Shih King. Major Odes. The Second Decade. Part 03 : * ODE 8. THE "KH"AN. ADDRESSED, PROBABLY, BY THE DUKE OF SHO TO KING "KH"NG, DESIRING FOR HIM LONG PROSPERITY, AND CONGRATULATING HIM, IN ORDER TO ADMONISH HIM, ON THE HAPPINESS OF HIS PEOPLE, THE NUMBER OF HIS ADMIRABLE OFFICERS, AND THE AUSPICIOUS OMEN ARISING FROM THE APPEARANCE OF THE PHNIX...
Part V. The Books Of K And IAu. Book V : * BOOK V. THE HOUNDS OF L. L was the name of one of the rude tribes of the west, lying beyond the provinces of "K"u. Its situation cannot be more exactly defined. Its people, in compliment, to king W, and impressed by a sense of his growing power, sent to him some of their hounds, and he having...
Part V. The Books Of K And IAu. Book Xvii : * p. 211 BOOK XVII. THE CHARGE TO KUNG OF HI HI was the name of the small state or territory, which had been conferred on T, the next younger brother of the duke of "K"u. The name still remains in the district of Shang-"h"i, department "Z"-ning, Ho-nan. T was deprived of his state because of his...
Part V. The Books Of K And IAu. Book Xxiv : * BOOK XXIV. THE CHARGE TO THE DUKE OF P. THE king who delivers the charge in this Book was Khang, and the only events of his reign of twenty-six years of which we have any account in the Sh and in Sze-m "Kh"ien are it and the preceding announcement. Book xxi relates the appointment of "K"n-"kh"n...
Shi King. Lessons From The States. Book V. Part 02 : * BOOK V. THE ODES OF WEI. IT has been said on the title of Book iii, that Wei at first was the eastern portion of the old domain of the kings of Shang. With this a brother of king W, called Khang-sh, was invested. The principality was afterwards increased by the absorption of Phei and Yung. It...
Shih King. Odes Of The Temple And The Altar. Part 13 : * ODE 8. THE SHIH MI. APPROPRIATE TO KING W'S SACRIFICING TO HEAVEN, AND TO THE SPIRITS OF THE HILLS AND RIVERS, ON A PROGRESS THROUGH THE KINGDOM, AFTER THE OVERTHROW OF THE SHANG DYNASTY. Here again there is an agreement among the critics. We find from the o "K"wan and 'the Narratives...
Shih King. Introduction. Chapter Ii : * p. 280 CHAPTER II. THE SHIH BEFORE CONFUCIUS, AND WHAT, IF ANY, WERE HIS LABOURS UPON IT. Statement of Sze-m "Kh"ien. 1. Sze-m "Kh"ien, in his memoir of Confucius, says:--'The old poems amounted to more than 3000. Confucius removed those which were only repetitions of others, and selected those...
Shih King. Odes Of The Temple And The Altar. Part 04 : * ODE 7. THE YUNG. APPROPRIATE, PROBABLY, AT A SACRIFICE BY KING W TO HIS FATHER WAN. From a reference in the Analects, III, ii, to an abuse of this ode in the time of Confucius, We learn that it was sung When the sacrificial vessels and their contents were being removed. They come full...
Shih King. Minor Odes. The Fourth Decade. Part 04 : * ODE 7. THE KIEH NAN SHAN. A LAMENTATION OVER THE UNSETTLED STATE OF THE KINGDOM DENOUNCING THE INJUSTICE AND NEGLECT OF THE CHIEF MINISTER, BLAMING ALSO THE CONDUCT OF THE KING, WITH APPEALS TO HEAVEN, AND SEEMINGLY CHARGING IT WITH CRUELTY AND INJUSTICE. This piece is referred to-the time...
Shih King. Minor Odes. The Fourth Decade : * ODE 10, STANZAS 1 AND 3. THE Y W "K"NG. THE WRITER OF THIS PIECE MOURNS OVER THE MISERABLE STATE OF THE KINGDOM, THE INCORRIGIBLE COURSE OF THE KING, AND OTHER EVILS, APPEALING ALSO TO HEAVEN, AND SURPRISED THAT IT ALLOWED SUCH THINGS TO BE. Great and wide Heaven, How is it you have contracted...
Shih King. Odes Of The Temple And The Altar. Part 17 : * ODE 4. THE LIEH WN. A SONG IN PRAISE OF THE PRINCES WHO HAVE ASSISTED AT A SACRIFICE, AND ADMONISHING THEM. The Preface says that this piece was made on the occasion of king "Kh"ng's accession to the government, when he thus addressed the princes who had assisted him in the ancestral temple. "K"...
Shih King. Minor Odes. The First Decade. Part 03 : * p. 347 II. THE MINOR ODES OF THE KINGDOM. PIECES AND STANZAS ILLUSTRATING THE RELIGIOUS VIEWS AND PRACTICES OF THE WRITERS AND THEIR TIMES. THE FIRST DECADE, OR THAT OF L-MING. ODE 5, STANZA 1. THE F M. THE F M IS A FESTAL ODE, WHICH WAS SUNG AT THE ENTERTAINMENT OF FRIENDS;--INTENDED...
Shih King. Odes Of The Temple And The Altar. Part 09 : * ODE 2. THE HS. FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS TO THE OFFICERS OF HUSBANDRY. Again there is a difficulty in determining to what sacrifice this piece should be referred. The Preface says it was sung on the occasions of sacrifice by the king to God, in spring and summer, for a good year. But the note...
Part Iv. The Books Of Shang. Book Vi : * BOOK VI. THE COMMON POSSESSION OF PURE VIRTUE. This is the last of the 'Instructions' of Yin;--addressed, like those of the last two Books, to Thi "K"i, but at a later period when the great minister wished to retire from the toils of administration. He now disappears from the stage of history...
Shih King. Part Iv. Lessons From The States : * p. 430 IV. LESSONS FROM THE STATES. ODES AND STANZAS ILLUSTRATING THE RELIGIOUS VIEWS AND PRACTICES OF THE WRITERS AND THEIR TIMES. IT has been stated in the Introduction, p. 276, that the first Part of the Shih, called the Kwo Fng, or 'Lessons from the States,' consists of 160 pieces...
Shih King. Major Odes. The Second Decade. Part 07 : * ODE 2. THE HSIN WEI. A FESTAL ODE, CELEBRATING SOME ENTERTAINMENT GIVEN BY THE KING TO HIS RELATIVES, WITH THE TRIAL OF ARCHERY AFTER THE FEAST; CELEBRATING ESPECIALLY THE HONOUR DONE ON SUCH OCCASIONS TO THE AGED. This ode is given here, because it is commonly taken as a prelude to the next...
Shih King. Major Odes. The Third Decade. Part 08 : * ODE 10, STANZAS 1, 5, 6, AND 7. THE KAN "Z"ANG. THE WRITER DEPLORES, WITH AN APPEALING WAIL TO HEAVEN, THE MISERY AND OPPRESSION THAT PREVAILED, AND INTIMATES THAT THEY WERE CAUSED BY THE INTERFERENCE OF WOMEN AND EUNUCHS IN THE GOVERNMENT. The king addressed in this piece was most probably Y...
Hsiao King. Introduction. Chapter Iii : * CHAPTER III. CRITICISM OF THE HSIO SINCE THE THANG DYNASTY. Works on the old text by Sze-m Kwang and Fan -y. 1. Notwithstanding the difficulty about one chapter which has been pointed out on p. 455, Hsan ung's text was generally accepted as the representative of that in modern characters...
Shih King. Minor Odes. The Seventh Decade : * ODE 6, STANZAS 1 AND 2. THE PIN "K"IH "KH" YEN. AGAINST DRUNKENNESS. DRINKING ACCORDING TO RULE AT ARCHERY CONTESTS AND THE SEASONAL SACRIFICES, AND DRINKING TO EXCESS. There are good grounds for referring the authorship of this piece to duke W of Wei (B.C. 812 to 7 58), who played an important...
Shih King. Minor Odes. The Fifth Decade : * p. 362 ODE 9. THE T TUNG. AN OFFICER OF ONE OF THE STATES OF THE EAST DEPLORES THE EXACTIONS MADE FROM THEM BY THE GOVERNMENT, COMPLAINS OF THE FAVOUR SHOWN TO THE WEST, CONTRASTS THE MISERY OF THE PRESENT WITH THE HAPPINESS OF THE PAST, AND APPEALS TO THE STARS OF HEAVEN IDLY BEHOLDING THEIR...
Part V. The Books Of K And IAu. Book Xxii : * BOOK XXII. THE TESTAMENTARY CHARGE. THIS Book brings us to the closing act of the life of king "Kh"ng, whose reign, according to the current chronology, lasted thirty-seven years, ending in B.C. 1079. From the appointment of "K"n-"kh"n to his death, the king's history is almost a blank. The only...
The Hsiao King. Chapter I. The Scope : * p. 465 THE HSIO KING. CHAPTER I. THE SCOPE AND MEANING OF THE TREATISE. (ONCE), when "K"ung-n 1 was unoccupied, and his disciple ng 2 was sitting by in attendance on him, the Master said, 'Shin, the ancient kings had a perfect virtue and all-embracing rule of conduct, through which they were...
Part V. The Books Of K And IAu. Book Ii : * p. 131 BOOK II. THE SPEECH AT M. IT is the morning of the day of battle, for which the king has prepared his host by the three speeches of the last Book. Once more he addresses his confederate princes, his officers, and his men. He sets forth more briefly the intolerable wickedness of Shu...
Part V. The Books Of K And IAu. Book Viii : * BOOK VIII. THE CHARGE TO THE COUNT OF WEI. THE count of Wei was the principal character in the eleventh Book of the last Part, from which it appeared that he was a brother of the tyrant "K"u-hsin. We saw how his friends advised him to withdraw from the court of Shang, and save p. 162 himself...
Part V. The Books Of K And IAu. Book Xxi : * BOOK XXI. THE "K"N-"KH"N. "K"N-"KH"N was the successor in 'the eastern capital' of the duke of "K"u, who has now passed off the stage of the Sh, which he occupied so long. Between 'the Officers of "K"u' and this Book, there were, when the Sh was complete, two others, which are both lost. We must...
Part V. The Books Of K And IAu. Book I : * p. 124 PART V. THE BOOKS OF "K"U. BOOK I. THE GREAT DECLARATION. "K"U is the dynastic designation under which king W and his descendants possessed the throne from B. C. 1122 to 256, a period of 861 years. They traced their lineage up to "Kh", who was Minister of Agriculture under Shun. He w...
Shih King. Odes Of The Temple And The Altar. Part 05 : * ODE 6. THE "KH"IEN. SUNG IN THE LAST MONTH OF WINTER, AND IN SPRING, WHEN THE KING PRESENTED A FISH IN THE ANCESTRAL TEMPLE. Such is the argument of this piece given in the Preface, and in which the critics generally concur. In the L "K", IV, vi, 49, it is recorded that the king, in the third...
Shih King. Minor Odes. The Fourth Decade. Part 05 : * ODE 6, STANZA 4. THE W YANG. THE W YANG IS SUPPOSED TO CELEBRATE THE LARGENESS AND EXCELLENT CONDITION OF KING HSAN'S FLOCKS AND HERDS. THE CONCLUDING STANZA HAS REFERENCE TO THE DIVINATION OF THE DREAMS OF HIS HERDSMEN. Your herdsmen shall dream, Of multitudes and then of fishes...
The Hsiao King. Chapter Vii. Filial Piety : * CHAPTER VII. FILIAL PIETY IN RELATION TO THE THREE POWERS 2. The disciple ng said, 'Immense indeed is the greatness of filial piety!' The Master replied 3, p. 473 'Yes, filial piety is the constant (method) of Heaven, the righteousness of Earth, and the practical duty of Man 1. Heaven and earth...
Part Iv. The Books Of Shang. Book Viii : * BOOK VIII. THE CHARGE TO YEH. AFTER Pan-kng came the reigns of Hsio-hsin and Hsio-y, of which we have no accounts in the Sh. Hsio-y was followed by W-ting (B.C. 1324-1264), to the commencement of whose reign this Book, in three sections, belongs. His name is not in it, but that he is the king...
The Hsiao King. Chapter Xiii. Amplificati : * CHAPTER XIII. AMPLIFICATION OF 'THE PERFECT VIRTUE' IN CHAPTER I. The Master said, 'The teaching of filial piety by the superior man 2 does not require that he should go to, family after family, and daily see the members of each. His teaching of filial piety is a tribute of reverence to all...
Hsiao King. Introduction. Chapter 1 : * p. 449 INTRODUCTION. CHAPTER 1. THE NAME OF THE CLASSIC; ITS EXISTENCE BEFORE THE HAN DYNASTY; ITS CONTENTS, AND BY WHOM IT WAS WRITTEN. Meaning of the character Hsio. 1. The Chinese character pronounced Hsio, which we translate by 'Filial Piety,' and which may also perform the part...
Shih King. Major Odes. The Third Decade. Part 04 : * ODE 3, STANZAS 1, 2, 3, 4, AND 7. THE SANG "Z"U. THE WRITER MOURNS OVER THE MISERY AND DISORDER OF THE TIMES, WITH A VIEW TO REPREHEND THE MISGOVERNMENT OF KING L, APPEALING ALSO TO HEAVEN TO HAVE COMPASSION. King L is not mentioned by name in the piece, but the second line of stanza 7 can only...
Shih King, The Book Of Odes. Title Page : * p. 273 THE SHIH KING OR BOOK OF POETRY: ALL THE PIECES AND STANZAS IN IT ILLUSTRATING THE RELIGIOUS VIEWS AND PRACTICES OF THE WRITERS AND THEIR TIMES. Translated By James Legge From The Sacred Books Of The East, Vol. 3 First Published 1879 Scanned At Www"s"acred-texts.com August-September 2000...
Shih King. Introduction. Chapter I. The Name : * p. 275 THE SHIH KING OR BOOK OF POETRY. INTRODUCTION. CHAPTER I. THE NAME AND CONTENTS OF THE CLASSIC. 1. Among the Chinese classical books next after the Sh in point of antiquity comes the Shih or Book of Poetry. The meaning of the character Shih. The character Sh 1, as formed by...
Shih King. Minor Odes. The Eighth Decade : * p. 376 THE EIGHTH DECADE, OR THAT OF PO HW. ODE 5, STANZAS 1 AND 2. THE PO HW. THE QUEEN OF KING Y COMPLAINS OF BEING DEGRADED AND FORSAKEN. The fibres from the white-flowered rush Are bound with the white grass 1. This man's sending me away makes me dwell solitary. The light and brilliant...
Shi King. Lessons From The States. Book Iv. Part 03 : * BOOK IV. THE ODES OF YUNG. See the preliminary note on p. 433. ODE 1. THE PAI "K"U. PROTEST OF A WIDOW AGAINST BEING URGED TO MARRY AGAIN, AND HER APPEAL TO HER MOTHER AND TO HEAVEN. THIS piece, it is said, was made by Kung "K"iang, the widow of Kung-po, son of the marquis Hs of Wei (B.C...
Part V. The Books Of K And IAu. Book Xxviii : * p. 265 BOOK XXVIII. THE CHARGE TO THE MARQUIS WN. THE king to whom this charge is ascribed was Phing (B.C. 770-719). Between him and M there was thus a period of fully two centuries, of which no documents are, or ever were, in the collection of the Sh. The time was occupied by seven reigns...
Shih King. Major Odes. The Third Decade. Part 10 : * ODE 7, STANZAS 1 AND PART OF 3. THE HAN Y. CELEBRATING THE MARQUIS OF HAN:--HIS INVESTITURE, AND THE KING'S CHARGE TO HIM; THE GIFTS HE RECEIVED, AND THE PARTING FEAST AT THE COURT; HIS MARRIAGE; THE EXCELLENCE OF HIS TERRITORY; AND HIS SWAY OVER THE REGIONS OF THE NORTH. Only one line...
Shih King. Odes Of The Temple And The Altar. Part 11 : * ODE 10. THE SZE WN. APPROPRIATE TO ONE OF THE BORDER SACRIFICES, WHEN HU-"K" WAS WORSHIPPED AS THE CORRELATE OF GOD, AND CELEBRATING HIM. Hu-"k" was the same as "Kh", who appears in Part II of the Sh as Minister of Agriculture to Yo and Shun, and co-operating with p. 320 [paragraph continues] Y...
Part Iv. The Books Of Shang. Book I : * p. 84 PART IV. THE BOOKS OF SHANG. BOOK I. THE SPEECH OF THANG. SHANG was the name under which the dynasty that superseded Hsi (B.C. 1766) held the kingdom for fully 300 years. Yin then began to be used as well as Shang, and the dynasty was called indifferently Shang or Yin, and sometimes...
The Hsiao King. Chapter Xvii. The Service : * CHAPTER XVII. THE SERVICE OF THE RULER. The Master said, 'The superior man 3 serves his ruler in such a way, that when at court in his presence his thought is how to discharge his loyal duty to the utmost; and when he retires from it, his thought is how to amend his errors. He carries out with...
Shih King. Major Odes. The Second Decade. Part 05 : * ODE 4. THE H. AN ODE APPROPRIATE TO THE FEAST GIVEN TO THE PERSONATORS OF THE DEPARTED, ON THE DAY AFTER THE SACRIFICE IN THE ANCESTRAL TEMPLE. This supplementary sacrifice on the day after the principal service in the temple appeared in the ninth Book of the fourth Part of the Sh; ...
Shih King. Odes Of The Temple And The Altar. Part 15 : * ODE 6. THE HO THIEN Y "KH"NG MING. APPROPRIATE TO A SACRIFICE TO KING "KH"NG. Khng was the honorary title of Sung, the son and successor of king W, B.C. 1115 to 1079. Heaven made its determinate appointment, which our two sovereigns received 2. King "Kh"ng did not dare to rest idly in it, But...
Shi King. Lessons From The States. Book Ii. Part 02 : * p. 431 ODE 2. THE "ZH"I FAN. CELEBRATING THE INDUSTRY AND REVERENCE OF A PRINCE'S WIFE, ASSISTING HIM IN SACRIFICING. We must suppose the ladies of a harem, in one of the states of the south, admiring and praising in these simple stanzas the way in which their mistress discharged her duties...
Part V. The Books Of K And IAu. Book Xiii : * BOOK XIII. THE ANNOUNCEMENT CONCERNING LO. THE matters recorded in this Book are all connected, more or less nearly with Lo, the new capital, the arrangements for the building of which are related at the commencement of the last Book. According to the summary of the contents given by...
The Hsiao King. Chapter X. An Orderly Descripti : * CHAPTER X. AN ORDERLY DESCRIPTION OF THE ACTS OF FILIAL PIETY. The Master said, 'The service which a filial son does to his parents is as follows:--In his general conduct to them, he manifests the utmost reverence; in his nourishing of them, his endeavour is to give them the utmost pleasure;...
Shi King. Lessons From The States. Book Iii. Part 02 : * ODE 4. THE "Z"H YEH. SUPPOSED TO BE THE COMPLAINT AND APPEAL OF "K"WANG "K"IANG, A MARCHIONESS OF WEI, AGAINST THE BAD TREATMENT SHE RECEIVED FROM HER HUSBAND. All the Chinese critics give this interpretation of the piece. "K"wang "K"iang was a daughter of the house of "Kh", about the middle...
Shih King. Odes Of The Temple And The Altar. Part 40 : * The Third Decade, Or That Of Min Y Hsio ze. ODE 1. THE MIN Y. APPROPRIATE TO THE YOUNG KING "KH"NG, DECLARING HIS SENTIMENTS IN THE TEMPLE OF HIS FATHER. The speaker in this piece is, by common consent, king "Kh"ng. The only question is as to the date of its composition, whether it was made...
Shi King. Lessons From The States. Book Xi : * ODE 6, STANZA 1. THE HWANG NIO. LAMENT FOR THREE WORTHIES OF "KH"IN, WHO WERE BURIED IN THE SAME GRAVE WITH DUKE M. There is no difficulty or difference in the interpretation of this piece; and it brings us down to B.C. 621. Then died duke M, after playing an important part in the north-west...
Shih King. Major Odes. The Third Decade. Part 02 : * ODE 5, STANZAS 1, 2, AND 4. THE SUNG KO. CELEBRATING THE APPOINTMENT BY KING HSAN OF A RELATIVE TO BE THE MARQUIS OF SHN, AND DEFENDER OF THE SOUTHERN BORDER OF THE KINGDOM, WITH THE ARRANGEMENTS MADE FOR HIS ENTERING ON HIS CHARGE. That the king who appears in this piece was king Hsan is...
Shih King. Odes Of The Temple And The Altar. Part 03 : * ODE 8. THE I HSIEN. APPROPRIATE TO AN OCCASION WHEN THE FEUDAL PRINCES HAD BEEN ASSISTING KING "KH"NG AT A SACRIFICE TO HIS FATHER. They appeared before their sovereign king, To seek from him the rules (they were to observe). With their dragon-emblazoned banners, flying bright, The bells on them...
Shih King. Minor Odes. The Fourth Decade. Part 03 : * ODE 8, STANZAS 4, 5, AND 7. THE "K"NG YEH. THE "K"NG YEH IS, LIKE THE PRECEDING ODE, A LAMENTATION OVER THE MISERIES OF THE KINGDOM, AND THE RUIN COMING ON IT; WITH A SIMILAR, BUT MORE HOPEFULLY EXPRESSED, APPEAL TO HEAVEN, 'THE GREAT GOD.' Look into the middle of the forest; There are (only)...
Part I. The Book Of Thang. The Canon Of Yao : * p. 31 THE SH KING. PART I. THE BOOK OF THANG. THE CANON OF YO. SH KING, the name of the whole work, has been sufficiently explained in the Introduction. The name of this Part, the first of the five into which the whole is divided, is the Book of Thang, Thang being taken as the dynastic...
Part Iv. The Books Of Shang. Book V. The Thai Kia : * BOOK V. THE THI "K"I. THIS Book also belongs to the class of 'Lessons or Instructions,' and is called 'the Thi "K"i,' because the Instructions were addressed to the young monarch so named. It is divided into three sections or parts. Yin finds the young sovereign disobedient to his counsels...
Shih King. Odes Of The Temple And The Altar. Part 19 : * ODE 2. THE WEI THIEN "K"IH MING. CELEBRATING THE VIRTUE OF KING WN AS COMPARABLE TO THAT OF HEAVEN, AND LOOKING TO HIM FOR BLESSING IN THE FUTURE. According to the Preface, there is an announcement here of the realization of complete peace throughout the kingdom, and some of the old critics...
Hsiao King. Introduction. Note On The Translation : * NOTE ON THE TRANSLATION. In preparing the translation of the Hsio King for the present work, I have made frequent reference to four earlier translations. Two of them were made by myself;--the one about thirty years ago, simply as an exercise for my own improvement in Chinese; the other four...
Shih King. Odes Of The Temple And The Altar. Part 07 : * p. 323 ODE 4. THE FNG NIEN. AN ODE OF THANKSGIVING FOR A PLENTIFUL YEAR. The Preface says the piece was used at sacrifices in autumn and winter. "K" Hs calls it an ode of thanksgiving for a good year,--without any specification of time. He supposes, however, that the thanks were given...
Shih King. Major Odes. The Third Decade. Part 06 : * THE THIRD DECADE, OR THAT OF TANG. ODE 1. THE TANG. WARNINGS, SUPPOSED TO BE ADDRESSED TO KING L, ON THE ISSUES OF THE COURSE WHICH HE WAS PURSUING, SHOWING THAT THE MISERIES OF THE TIME AND THE IMMINENT DANGER OF RUIN WERE TO BE ATTRIBUTED, NOT TO HEAVEN, BUT TO HIMSELF AND HIS MINISTERS. This...
Shih King. Minor Odes. The First Decade : * ODE 9, STANZA 4. THE T T. THE T T IS AN ODE OF CONGRATULATION, INTENDED FOR THE MEN WHO HAVE RETURNED FROM MILITARY DUTY AND SERVICE ON THE FRONTIERS. The congratulation is given in a description of the anxiety and longing of the soldiers' wives for their return. We must suppose one of the wives...
Shu King. Introduction. Title Page : * p. 1 THE SH KING OR BOOK OF HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS. Scanned At Www"s"acred-texts.com August-September 2000, Revised July 2005.
Shih King. Odes Of The Temple And The Altar. Part 31 : * ODE 10. THE LI. CELEBRATING THE PRAISE OF KING WN. This is the only account of the piece that can be given from itself. The o "K"wan, however, refers it to the dance of king W; and the Preface says it contains the words with which W accompanied his grant of fiefs and appanages in the ancestral...
Shih King. Minor Odes. The Fifth Decade. Part 04 : * p. 360 ODE 3, STANZAS 1 AND 3. THE HSIO PAN. THE ELDEST SON AND HEIR-APPARENT OF KING Y BEWAILS HIS DEGRADATION, APPEALING TO HEAVEN AS TO HIS INNOCENCE, AND COMPLAINING OF ITS CASTING HIS LOT IN SUCH A TIME. It is allowed that this piece is clearly the composition of a banished son, and there...
Part Iii. The Books Of Hsia. Book Iii : * p. 78 BOOK III. THE SONGS OF THE FIVE SONS. This Book ranks in that class of the documents of the Sh which goes by the name of 'Instructions.' Though the form of it be poetical, the subject-matter is derived from the Lessons left by Y for the guidance of his posterity. Thi Khang succeeded to his...
Shu King. Introduction. Chapter Iii : * p. 20 CHAPTER III. ON THE CHRONOLOGY OF CHINA, AND THE PRINCIPAL ERAS IN THE SH. 1. I do not enter here on the subject of the chronology of China further than is necessary to show that there is no chronological difficulty in the way of our accepting the documents of the Sh, which I have just...
Part Ii. The Books Of Yu. Book Ii. The Counsels : * p. 46 BOOK II. THE COUNSELS OF THE GREAT Y. OF the six classes of documents in the Sh, 'Counsels' are the second, containing the wise remarks and suggestions of high officers on the subject of government. This Book may be divided into three chapters:--the first, containing counsels of Y and Y...
Shih King. Minor Odes. The Seventh Decade. Part 02 : * THE SEVENTH DECADE, OR THAT OF SANG H. ODE 1, STANZA 1. THE SANG H. THE KING, ENTERTAINING THE CHIEF AMONG THE FEUDAL PRINCES, EXPRESSES HIS ADMIRATION OF THEM, AND GOOD WISHES FOR THEM. They flit about, the greenbeaks 4, With their p. 374 variegated wings, To be rejoiced in are these princes...
Shi King. Lessons From The States. Book Xi. Part 02 : * BOOK XI. THE ODES OF KHIN. THE state of "Kh"in took its name from its earliest principal city, in the present district of "Kh"ing-shui, in "Kh"in "K"u, Kan-s. Its chiefs claimed to be descended from Y, who appears in the Sh as the forester of Shun, and the assistant of the great Y in his labours...
The Hsiao King. Chapter Xvi. The Influence : * CHAPTER XVI. THE INFLUENCE OF FILIAL PIETY AND THE RESPONSE TO IT. 'The Master said, 'Anciently, the intelligent kings served their fathers with filial piety, and therefore they served Heaven with intelligence; they served their mothers with filial piety, and therefore they served Earth with...
Shih King. Major Odes, First Decade. Ode. Part 04 : * ODE 6. THE SZE "K"I. THE VIRTUE OF WN, WITH HIS FILIAL PIETY AND CONSTANT REVERENCE, AND THEIR WONDERFUL EFFECTS. THE EXCELLENT CHARACTER OF HIS MOTHER AND WIFE. Pure and reverent was Thi "Z"n 5, The mother of king Wn. Loving was she to "K"u "K"iang 6;-- p. 388 [paragraph continues] A wife...
Shih King. Minor Odes. The Sixth Decade. Part 04 : * ODE 6. THE HSIN NAN SHAN. HUSBANDRY TRACED TO ITS FIRST AUTHOR; DETAILS ABOUT IT, GOING ON TO THE SUBJECT OF SACRIFICES TO ANCESTORS. The Preface refers this piece to the reign of king Y; but there is nothing. in it to suggest the idea of its having been made in a time of disorder...
Shih King. Major Odes. The Third Decade : * p. 425 ODE 6, STANZAS 1 AND 7. THE "K"NG MIN. CELEBRATING THE VIRTUES OF "K"UNG SHAN-F, WHO APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN ONE OF THE PRINCIPAL MINISTERS OF KING HSAN, AND HIS DESPATCH TO THE EAST, TO FORTIFY THE CAPITAL OF THE STATE OF "KH". Heaven, in giving birth to the multitudes of the people...
The Hsiao King. Chapter Xiv. Amplificati : * CHAPTER XIV. AMPLIFICATION OF 'MAKING OUR NAME FAMOUS' IN CHAPTER I. The Master said, 'The filial piety with which the superior man serves his parents may be transferred as loyalty to the ruler; the fraternal duty with which he serves his elder brother may be transferred as submissive deference...
The Hsiao King. Chapter Ix. The Government : * p. 476 CHAPTER IX. THE GOVERNMENT OF THE SAGES 1. The disciple ng said, 'I venture to ask whether in the virtue of the sages there was not something greater than filial piety.' The Master replied, 'Of all (creatures with their different) natures produced by Heaven and Earth, man is the noblest...
Shih King. Odes Of The Temple And The Altar. Part 35 : * ODE 6. THE LIANG SZE. PRESUMABLY, AN ODE OF THANKSGIVING IN THE AUTUMN TO THE SPIRITS OF THE LAND AND GRAIN. Very sharp are the excellent shares, With which they set to work on the south-lying, acres. They sow their various kinds of grain, Each seed containing in it a germ of life. p. 333 There...
Part Iii. The Books Of Hsia. Book Iv : * p. 81 BOOK IV. THE PUNITIVE EXPEDITION OF YIN. THIS Book is another of the 'Speeches' of the Sh, belonging to the reign of "K"ung Khang, a brother of Thi Khang, the fourth of the kings of Shang (B.C. 2159-2147). Hs and Ho, the principal ministers of the Board of Astronomy, descended from those...
Shih King. Odes Of The Temple And The Altar. Part 23 : * p. 307 ODE 3. THE HSAN NIO APPROPRIATE TO A SACRIFICE IN THE ANCESTRAL TEMPLE OF SHANG;--INTENDED SPECIALLY TO DO HONOUR TO THE KING W-TING. If this ode were not intended to do honour to W-ting, the Ko ung of Shang, we cannot account for the repeated mention of him in it. "K" Hs, however, in his...
Untitled : Title Page Contents Preface SH KING SH KING: INTRODUCTION Title Page Chapter I. The Nature and History of the Sh Chapter II: The Credibility of the Records in the Sh Chapter III. On The Chronology of China, And The Principal Eras In The Sh. The Use of the Chart PART I: THE BOOK OF THANG The C...
Shih King. Major Odes, First Decade. Ode. Part 08 : * ODE 2. THE T MING. HOW THE APPOINTMENT OF HEAVEN OR GOD CAME FROM HIS FATHER TO KING WN, AND DESCENDED TO HIS SON, KING W, WHO OVERTHREW THE DYNASTY OF SHANG BY HIS VICTORY AT M; CELEBRATING ALSO THE MOTHER AND WIFE OF KING WN. The illustration of illustrious (virtue) is required below...
Shih King. Major Odes. The Second Decade : * ODE 10. THE PAN. AN OFFICER OF EXPERIENCE MOURNS OVER THE PREVAILING MISERY; COMPLAINS OF THE WANT OF SYMPATHY WITH HIM SHOWN BY OTHER OFFICERS; ADMONISHES THEM, AND SETS FORTH THE DUTY REQUIRED OF THEM, ESPECIALLY IN THE ANGRY MOOD IN WHICH IT MIGHT SEEM THAT HEAVEN WAS. This piece, like...
Part Iii. The Books Of Hsia. Book I : * p. 63 PART III. THE BOOKS OF HSI. BOOK I. THE TRIBUTE OF Y. HSI is the dynastic designation under which Y and his descendants held the throne for 439 years (B.C. 2205-1767). On the conclusion of his labours, according to what was the universally accepted tradition in the "K"u period, Y w...
Part V. The Books Of K And IAu. Book Xv : * BOOK XV. AGAINST LUXURIOUS EASE. THE name of this Book is taken from two characters in the first sentence of it, which are the key-note of the whole. It is classified among the 'Instructions' of the Sh, and was addressed to king "Kh"ng by the duke of "K"u soon after he had resigned...
Part V. The Books Of K And IAu. Book Xiv : * p. 196 BOOK XIV. THE NUMEROUS OFFICERS. WE have in this Book another 'Announcement,' addressed to the people of Yin or Shang, and especially to the higher classes among them,--'the numerous officers,'--to reconcile them to their lot as subjects of the new dynasty. From the preceding two Books it...
Shih King. Minor Odes. The Sixth Decade : * THE SIXTH DECADE, OR THAT OF PEI SHAN. ODE 3, STANZAS 1, 4, AND 5. THE HSIO MING. AN OFFICER, KEPT LONG ABROAD ON DISTANT SERVICE, APPEALS TO HEAVEN, DEPLORING THE HARDSHIPS OF HIS LOT, AND TENDERS GOOD ADVICE TO HIS MORE FORTUNATE FRIENDS AT COURT. O bright and high Heaven, Who enlightenest...
Shih King. Odes Of The Temple And The Altar. Part 39 : * ODE 2. THE FANG LO. THE YOUNG KING TELLS OF HIS DIFFICULTIES AND INCOMPETENCIES; ASKS FOR COUNSEL TO KEEP HIM TO COPY THE EXAMPLE OF HIS FATHER; STATES HOW HE MEANT TO DO SO; AND CONCLUDES WITH AN APPEAL OR PRAYER TO HIS FATHER. This seems to be a sequel to the former ode. We can hardly say...
Part Ii. The Books Of Yu. Book Iii : * p. 53 BOOK III. THE COUNSELS OF KO-YO. KO-YO was Minister of Crime to Shun, and is still celebrated in China as the model for all administrators of justice. There are few or no reliable details of his history. Sze-ma "Kh"ien says that Y on his accession to the throne, made Ko-yo his chief...
Shih King. Odes Of The Temple And The Altar. Part 27 : * p. 300 THE SHIH KING. I. ODES OF THE TEMPLE AND THE ALTAR. IT was stated in the Introduction, p. 278, that the poems in the fourth Part of the Shih are the only ones that are professedly religious; and there are some even of them, it will be seen, which have little claim on internal grounds...
Shih King. Minor Odes. The Fifth Decade. Part 06 : * THE FIFTH DECADE, OR THAT OF HSIO MIN. ODE 1, STANZAS 1, 2, AND 3. THE HSIO MIN. A LAMENTATION OVER THE RECKLESSNESS AND INCAPACITY OF THE KING AND HIS COUNSELLORS. DIVINATION HAS BECOME OF NO AVAIL, AND HEAVEN IS DESPAIRINGLY APPEALED TO. This is referred, like several of the pieces...
Shih King. Odes Of The Temple And The Altar. Part 33 : * ODE 8. THE "K"O. AN ODE IN PRAISE OF KING W, AND RECOGNISING THE DUTY TO FOLLOW HIS COURSE. This was sung, according to the Preface, at the conclusion of the dance in honour of king W;--see on the last piece of the second decade. Oh! powerful was the king's army, But he nursed it, in obedience...
Shih King. Major Odes, First Decade. Ode. Part 06 : * p. 386 ODE 4, STANZAS 1 AND 2. THE Y PHO. IN PRAISE OF KING WN, CELEBRATING HIS INFLUENCE, DIGNITY IN THE TEMPLE SERVICES, ACTIVITY, AND CAPACITY TO RULE. Abundant is the growth of the buckthorn and shrubby trees, Supplying firewood; yea, stores of it 1. Elegant and dignified was our prince...
Part V. The Books Of K And IAu. Book Xx : * p. 226 BOOK XX. THE OFFICERS OF "K"U. 'THE Officers of "K"u' contains a general outline of the official system of the "K"u dynasty, detailing the names and functions of the principal ministers about the court and others, to whom, moreover, various counsels are addressed by the king who speaks...
Part V. The Books Of K And IAu. Book Xix : * BOOK XIX. THE ESTABLISHMENT OF GOVERNMENT. THE phrase, 'the Establishment of Government,' occurs several times in the course of the Book, and is thence taken to denominate it,--appropriately enough. The subject treated of throughout, is how good government may be established. Some Chinese...
Shih King. Minor Odes. The Sixth Decade. Part 02 : * ODE 8. THE T THIEN. FURTHER PICTURES OF HUSBANDRY, AND SACRIFICES CONNECTED WITH IT. Large are the fields, and various is the work to be done. Having selected the seed, and looked after the implements, So that all preparations have been made for our labour, We take our sharp ploughshares...
Shih King. Major Odes, First Decade. Ode. Part 02 : * ODE 9. THE HSI W. IN PRAISE OF KING W, WALKING IN THE WAYS OF HIS FOREFATHERS, AND BY HIS FILIAL PIETY SECURING THE THRONE TO HIMSELF AND HIS POSTERITY. Successors tread in the steps (of their predecessors) in our "K"u. For generations there had been wise kings; The three sovereigns were...
Shih King. Minor Odes. The Fifth Decade. Part 02 : * ODE 6, STANZAS 5 AND 6. THE HSIANG PO. A EUNUCH, HIMSELF THE VICTIM OF SLANDER, COMPLAINS OF HIS FATE, AND WARNS AND DENOUNCES HIS ENEMIES; APPEALING AGAINST THEM, AS HIS LAST RESORT, TO HEAVEN. The proud are delighted, And the troubled are in sorrow. O azure Heaven! O azure Heaven! Look...
Shih King. Odes Of The Temple And The Altar. Part 37 : * ODE 4. THE HSIO P. KING "KH"NG ACKNOWLEDGES THAT HE HAD ERRED, AND STATES HIS PURPOSE TO HE CAREFUL IN THE FUTURE; HE WILL GUARD AGAINST THE SLIGHT BEGINNINGS OF EVIL; AND IS PENETRATED WITH A SENSE OF HIS OWN INCOMPETENCIES. This piece has been considered by some critics as the conclusi...
Part Iv. The Books Of Shang. Book Ii : * BOOK II. THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF "K"UNG-HUI This Book is the first of the 'Announcements,' which form a large class of the documents in the Sh. They are distinguished from the Speeches, as being made in a general assembly, or published, for the information of all, whereas the Speeches were made...
Shih King. Odes Of The Temple And The Altar. Part 29 : * ODE 3. THE PHAN SHUI. IN PRAISE OF SOME MARQUIS OF L, CELEBRATING HIS INTEREST IN THE STATE COLLEGE, WHICH HE HAD, PROBABLY, REPAIRED, TESTIFYING HIS VIRTUES, AND AUSPICING FOR HIM A COMPLETE TRIUMPH OVER THE TRIBES OF THE HWI, WHICH WOULD BE CELEBRATED IN THE COLLEGE. The marquis here...
Part V. The Books Of K And IAu. Book Vi : * BOOK VI. THE METAL-BOUND COFFER. A CERTAIN chest or coffer, that was fastened with bands of metal, and in which important state documents were deposited, plays an important part among the incidents of the Book, which is therefore called 'the Metal-bound Coffer.' To what class among the documents...
Shih King. Odes Of The Temple And The Altar. Part 21 : * ODE 5. THE YIN W. CELEBRATING THE WAR OF W-TING AGAINST "K"ING-"KH", ITS SUCCESS, AND THE GENERAL HAPPINESS AND VIRTUE OF HIS REIGN;--MADE, PROBABLY, WHEN A SPECIAL AND PERMANENT TEMPLE WAS BUILT FOR HIM AS THE 'HIGH AND HONOURED' KING OF SHANG. The concluding lines indicate that the temple w...
Shi King. Lessons From The States. Book Iv : * ODE 6, STANZAS 1 AND 2. THE TING "K"IH FANG "K"NG. CELEBRATING THE PRAISE OF DUKE WN;--HIS DILIGENCE, FORESIGHT, USE OF DIVINATION, AND OTHER QUALITIES. The state of Wei was reduced to extremity by an irruption of some northern hordes in B.C. 660, and had nearly disappeared from among the states...
Preface : * p. xiii PREFACE. WHILE submitting here some prefatory observations on the version of the Sh King presented in this volume, I think it well to prefix also a brief account of what are regarded as the Sacred Books of the Religions of China. Those religions are three:--Confucianism, Toism...
Shi King. Lessons From The States. Book X. Part 03 : * BOOK X. THE ODES OF THANG. THE odes of Thang were really the odes of in, the greatest of the fiefs of "K"u until the rise of "Kh"in. King "Kh"ng, in B.C. 1107, invested his younger brother, called Sh-y, with the territory where Yo was supposed to have ruled anciently as the marquis of Thang...
Part V. The Books Of K And IAu. Book Xxvi : * p. 252 BOOK XXVI. THE CHARGE TO "KH"IUNG. THE charge recorded here, like that in the last Book, is assigned to king M. It was delivered on the appointment of a "Kh"iung or Po-"kh"iung (that is, the eldest "Kh"iung, the eldest brother in his family,) to be High Chamberlain. Of this "Kh"iung we...
Shi King. Lessons From The States. Book Vi. Part 02 : * ODE 1, STANZA 1. THE SH-L. AN OFFICER DESCRIBES HIS MELANCHOLY AND REFLECTIONS ON SEEING THE DESOLATION OF THE OLD CAPITAL OF "K"U, MAKING HIS MOAN TO HEAVEN BECAUSE OF IT. There is no specific mention of the old. capital of "K"u in the piece, but the schools of Mo and "K" are agreed in this...
Shih King. Odes Of The Temple And The Altar. Part 25 : * ODE 1. THE N 1. APPROPRIATE TO A SACRIFICE TO THANG, THE FOUNDER OF THE SHANG DYNASTY, DWELLING ESPECIALLY ON THE MUSIC AND THE REVERENCE WITH WHICH THE SACRIFICE WAS PERFORMED. We cannot tell by which of the kings of Shang the sacrifice here referred to was first performed. He is simply spoken...
Part Ii. The Books Of Yu. Book I. The C : * p. 37 PART II. THE BOOKS OF Y. BOOK I. THE CANON OF SHUN. THE Books of Y is the name of this Part of the Sh Y being the dynastic designation of Shun, as Thang was that of Yo. It does not appear so clearly, however, how it came to be so. Y must be the name of a state, and is commonly identified...
Shih King. Odes Of The Temple And The Altar. Part 28 : * p. 341 ODE 4. THE P KUNG. IN PRAISE OF DUKE HS, AND AUSPICING FOR HIM A MAGNIFICENT CAREER OF SUCCESS, WHICH WOULD MAKE L ALL THAT IT HAD EVER BEEN:--WRITTEN, PROBABLY, ON AN OCCASION WHEN HS HAD REPAIRED THE TEMPLES OF THE STATE, OF WHICH PIOUS ACT HIS SUCCESS WOULD BE THE REWARD. There is no...
Shih King. Minor Odes. The Fifth Decade. Part 03 : * p. 361 ODE 4, STANZA 1. THE "KH"IO YEN. SOME ONE, SUFFERING FROM THE KING THROUGH SLANDER, APPEALS TO HEAVEN, AND GOES ON TO DWELL ON THE NATURE AND EVIL OF SLANDER. This piece has been referred to the time of king L, B.C. 878 to 828. O vast and distant Heaven, Who art called our parent, Th...
Part V. The Books Of K And IAu. Book Xviii : * BOOK XVIII. THE NUMEROUS REGIONS. THE king has returned to his capital in triumph, having put down rebellion in the east, and specially extinguished the state or tribe of Yen. The third chapter of Book xiv contained a reference to an expedition against Yen. Critics are divided on the point...
Shih King. Odes Of The Temple And The Altar. Part 36 : * ODE 5. THE I SH THE CULTIVATION OF THE GROUND FROM THE FIRST BREAKING OF IT UP, TILL IT YIELDS ABUNDANT HARVESTS:--AVAILABLE SPECIALLY FOR SACRIFICES AND FESTIVE OCCASIONS. WHETHER INTENDED TO BE USED ON OCCASIONS OF THANKSGIVING, OR IN SPRING WHEN PRAYING FOR A GOOD YEAR, CANNOT BE DETERMINED...
Shih King. Minor Odes. The Sixth Decade. Part 03 : * ODE 7. THE PH THIEN. PICTURES OF HUSBANDRY, AND SACRIFICES CONNECTED WITH IT. HAPPY UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN THE PEOPLE AND THEIR SUPERIORS. It is difficult to say who the 'I' in the piece is, but evidently he and the 'distant descendant' are different persons. I suppose he may have been an officer...
Shih King. Major Odes, First Decade. Ode. Part 03 : * p. 389 ODE 7. THE HWANG. SHOWING THE RISE OF THE HOUSE OF "K"U TO THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE KINGDOM THROUGH THE FAVOUR OF GOD, THE ACHIEVEMENTS OF KINGS THI AND "K", AND ESPECIALLY OF KING WN. Great is God, Beholding this lower world in majesty. He surveyed the four quarters (of the kingdom)...
Shih King. Introduction. Chapter Iii : * p. 285 CHAPTER III. THE SHIH FROM THE TIME OF CONFUCIUS TILL THE GENERAL ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF THE PRESENT TEXT. From Confucius to rise of the "Kh"in dynasty. 1. Of the attention paid to the study of the Shih from the death of Confucius to the rise of the "Kh"in dynasty, we have abundant evidence...
Part V. The Books Of K And IAu. Book Iii : * p. 133 BOOK III. THE SUCCESSFUL COMPLETION OF THE WAR. I HAVE divided this Book into three chapters:--one, consisting of brief historical notes of the commencement and close of W's expedition; a second, giving the address (or a part of it) delivered by W to his nobles and officers on occasi...
Shih King. Major Odes, First Decade. Ode. Part 07 : * ODE 3. THE MIEN. SMALL BEGINNINGS AND SUBSEQUENT GROWTH OF THE HOUSE OF "K"U IN "K"U. ITS REMOVAL FROM PIN UNDER THAN-F, WITH ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT IN "K"U, WITH THE PLACE THEN GIVEN TO THE BUILDING OF THE ANCESTRAL TEMPLE, AND THE ALTAR TO THE SPIRITS OF THE LAND. CONSOLIDATION OF ITS FORTUNES...
Part Iv. The Books Of Shang. Book Iv : * p. 92 BOOK IV. THE INSTRUCTIONS OF THANG died in B.C. 1754 or 1753, and was succeeded, so far as the evidence of the Sh goes, by his grandson, known as Thi "K"i. The chief minister of Thang had been Yin, who delivers these Instructions to his young sovereign soon after his accession. was a gre...
Shih King. Odes Of The Temple And The Altar. Part 32 : * ODE 9. THE HWAN. CELEBRATING THE MERIT AND SUCCESS OF KING W. According to a statement in the o "K"wan, this piece also was sung in connexion with the dance of W. The Preface says it was used in declarations of war, and in sacrificing to God and the Father of War. Perhaps it came to be used...
Title Page : * THE SACRED BOOKS OF CHINA THE TEXTS OF CONFUCIANISM TRANSLATED BY JAMES LEGGE PART I THE SH KING THE RELIGIOUS PORTIONS OF THE SHIH KING THE HSIAO KING [Sacred Books of the East Vol. III] [1879] Scanned At Www"s"acred-texts.com August-September 2000 Revised July 2005
Shih King. Odes Of The Temple And The Altar. Part 24 : * ODE 2. THE LIEH. PROBABLY LIKE THE LAST ODE, APPROPRIATE TO A SACRIFICE TO THANG, DWELLING ON THE SPIRITS, THE SOUP, AND THE GRAVITY OF THE SERVICE, AND ON THE ASSISTING PRINCES. Neither can we tell by which of the kings of Shang this ode was first used. "K" Hs says that the object...
Part V. The Books Of K And IAu. Book Xxvii : * p. 254 BOOK XXVII. THE MARQUIS OF L ON PUNISHMENTS. THE charge or charges recorded in this Book were given in the hundredth year of the king's age. The king, it is again understood, was M; and the hundredth year of his age would be B.C. 952. The title of the Book in Chinese is simply 'L's...
The Hsiao King. Chapter Xii. Amplificati : * CHAPTER XII. AMPLIFICATION OF 'THE ALL-EMBRACING RULE OF CONDUCT' IN CHAPTER I. The Master said, 'For teaching the people to be affectionate and loving there is nothing better than Filial Piety; for teaching them (the observance of) propriety and submissiveness there is nothing better th...
Part Iv. The Books Of Shang. Book Vii : * BOOK VII. THE PAN-KNG. PAN-KNG was the seventeenth sovereign in the line of Thang. From Thi "K"i to him, therefore, there was a space of 321 years. which are a gap in the history of the Shang dynasty, so far as the existing documents of the Sh are concerned. When the collection was complete...
Shi King. Lessons From The States. Book Vi. Part 03 : * BOOK VI. THE ODES OF THE ROYAL DOMAIN. KING Wn, it has been seen, had for his capital the city of Fng, from which his son, king W, moved the seat of government to Ho. In the time of king "Kh"ng, a city was built by the duke p. 439 of Ku, near the present Lo-yang, and called 'the eastern capital...
Shi King. Lessons From The States. Book Ii : * ODE 4. THE "ZH"I PIN. CELEBRATING THE DILIGENCE AND REVERENCE OF THE YOUNG WIFE OF AN OFFICER, DOING HER PART IN SACRIFICIAL OFFERINGS. She gathers the large duckweed, By the banks of the stream in the southern valley. She gathers the pondweed, In those pools left by the floods. She deposits...
Shi King. Lessons From The States. Book X. Part 02 : * ODE, 8, STANZA 1. THE PO Y. THE MEN OF IN, CALLED OUT TO WARFARE BY THE KING'S ORDER, MOURN OVER THE CONSEQUENT SUFFERING OF THEIR PARENTS, AND LONG FOR THEIR RETURN TO THEIR ORDINARY AGRICULTURAL PURSUITS, MAKING THEIR APPEAL TO HEAVEN. S-s go the feathers of the wild geese, As p. 441 they...
Shih King. Odes Of The Temple And The Altar. Part 20 : * II. THE SACRIFICIAL ODES OF KU. IN this division we have thirty-one sacrificial odes of "K"u, arranged in three decades, the third of which, however, contains eleven pieces. They belong mostly to the time of king Wn, the founder of the "K"u dynasty, and to the reigns of his son and grands...
Shi King. Lessons From The States. Book V : * ODE 4, STANZAS 1 AND 2. THE MNG. AN UNFORTUNATE WOMAN, WHO HAD BEEN SEDUCED INTO AN IMPROPER CONNEXION, NOW CAST OFF, RELATES AND BEMOANS HER SAD CASE. An extract is given from the pathetic history here related, because it shows how divination was used among the common people, and entered...
Shih King. Odes Of The Temple And The Altar. Part 34 : * ODE 7. THE SZE. AN ODE APPROPRIATE TO THE PREPARATIONS AND PROGRESS OF A FEAST AFTER A SACRIFICE. The Preface and the editors of the Yung-"kh"ng Shih say that the piece has reference to the entertainment given, the day after a p. 334 sacrifice, in the ancestral temple, to the personators...
The Hsiao King. Chapter V. Filial Piety : * CHAPTER V. FILIAL PIETY IN INFERIOR OFFICERS. As they serve their fathers, so, they serve their mothers, and they love them equally. As they serve their fathers, so they serve their rulers, and they reverence them equally. Hence love is what is chiefly rendered to the mother, and reverence is...
Shi King. Lessons From The States. Book Xv. Part 02 : * BOOK XV. THE ODES OF PIN. DUKE Li, an ancestor of the "K"u family, made a settlement, according to its traditions, in B.C. 1797, in Pin, the site of which is pointed out, 90 l to the west of the present district city of San-shui, in Pin "K"u, Shen-hs, where the tribe remained till the movement...
Part V. The Books Of K And IAu. Book Vii : * BOOK VII. THE GREAT ANNOUNCEMENT. THIS 'Great Announcement' was called forth by the emergency referred to in the second chapter of the last Book. The prefatory notice says, 'When king W had deceased, the three overseers and the wild tribes of the Hwi rebelled. The duke of "K"u acted as minister...
Shih King. Major Odes, First Decade. Ode. Part 05 : * ODE 5. THE HAN L. IN PRAISE OF THE VIRTUE OF KING WN, BLESSED BY HIS ANCESTORS, AND RAISED TO THE HIGHEST DIGNITY WITHOUT' SEEKING OF HIS OWN. Look at the foot of the Han 3, How abundantly grow the hazel and arrow-thorn 4. Easy and self-possessed was our prince, In his pursuit of dignity (still)...
Shih King. Minor Odes. The Sixth Decade. Part 05 : * ODE 5. THE KH "H"ZE. SACRIFICIAL AND FESTAL SERVICES IN THE ANCESTRAL TEMPLE; AND THEIR CONNEXION WITH ATTENTION TO HUSBANDRY. See the remarks on the Services of the Ancestral Temple, pp. 300, 301. Thick grew the tribulus (on the ground), But they cleared away its thorny bushes. Why did they...
Part Iii. The Books Of Hsia. Book Ii : * BOOK II. THE SPEECH AT KAN. WITH this Book there commence the documents of the Sh that may be regarded, as I have said in the Introduction, as contemporaneous with the events which they describe. It is the first of the 'Speeches,' which form one class of the documents of the classic. The text...
Hsiao King. Introduction. Chapter Ii : * p. 452 CHAPTER II. THE RECOVERY OF THE HSIO KING UNDER THE HAN DYNASTY, AND ITS PRESERVATION DOWN TO THE PUBLICATION OF THE COMMENTARY OF THE THANG EMPEROR HSAN ZUNG. 1. The Hsio King suffered, like all the other Confucian books except the Y, from the fires of "Kh"in. Its subsequent recovery w...
Shih King. Odes Of The Temple And The Altar. Part 30 : * III. THE PRAISE ODES OF L. IT is not according to the truth of things to class the Sung of L among the sacrificial odes, and I do not call them such. "K" Hs says:--'King "Kh"ng, because of the great services rendered by the duke of "K"u, granted to Po-"kh"in, (the duke's eldest son, and first...
Shi King. Lessons From The States. Book X : * ODE 11. THE KO SHNG. A WIFE MOURNS THE DEATH OF HER HUSBAND, REFUSING TO BE COMFORTED, AND DECLARES THAT SHE WILL CHERISH HIS MEMORY TILL HER OWN DEATH. It is supposed that the husband whose death is bewailed in this piece had died in one of the military expeditions of which duke Hsien (B.C...
Shih King. Minor Odes. The Fifth Decade. Part 05 : * ODE 2, STANZAS I AND 2. THE HSIO YAN. SOME OFFICER IN A TIME OF DISORDER AND MISGOVERNMENT URGES ON HIS BROTHERS THE DUTY OF MAINTAINING THEIR OWN VIRTUE, AND OF OBSERVING THE GREATEST CAUTION. Small is the cooing dove, But it flies aloft to heaven. My heart is wounded with sorrow, And I think...
Shih King. Odes Of The Temple And The Altar. Part 26 : * p. 303 I. THE SACRIFICIAL ODES OF SHANG. THESE Odes of Shang constitute the last Book in the ordinary editions of the Shih. I put them here in the first place, because they are the oldest pieces in the collection. There are only five of them. The sovereigns of the dynasty of Shang who occupied...
Part V. The Books Of K And IAu. Book Xii : * BOOK XII. THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE DUKE OF SHO. SHO was the name of a territory within the royal domain, corresponding to the present district of Hwan-"kh", "K"iang "K"u, Shan-hs. It was the appanage of Shih, one of the ablest of the men who lent their aid to the establishment of the dynasty...
Shih King. Odes Of The Temple And The Altar. Part 38 : * ODE 3. THE "K"ING "K"IH. KING "KH"NG SHOWS HIS SENSE OF WHAT WAS REQUIRED OF HIM TO PRESERVE THE FAVOUR OF HEAVEN, A CONSTANT JUDGE; INTIMATES HIS GOOD PURPOSES; AND ASKS THE HELP OF HIS MINISTERS TO BE ENABLED TO PERFORM THEM. Let me be reverent! Let me be reverent! (The way of) Heaven is...
Part V. The Books Of K And IAu. Book Xi : * BOOK XI. THE TIMBER OF THE ROTTLERA. 'THE wood of the ze tree'--the Rottlera Japonica, according to Dr. Williams-is mentioned in the Book, and was adopted as the name for it. The ze was esteemed a very valuable tree for making articles of furniture and for the carver's art. The title perhaps...
The Hsiao King. Chapter Iv. Filial Piety : * CHAPTER IV. FILIAL PIETY IN HIGH MINISTERS AND GREAT OFFICERS. They do not presume to wear robes other than those appointed by the laws of the ancient kings 2; nor to speak words other than those sanctioned by their speech; nor to exhibit conduct other than that exemplified by their virtuous...
The Hsiao King. Chapter Xv. Filial Piety : * CHAPTER XV. FILIAL PIETY IN RELATION TO REPROOF AND REMONSTRANCE. The disciple ng said, 'I have heard your instructions on the affection of love, on respect and reverence, on giving repose to (the minds of) our parents, and on making our name famous;--I would venture to ask if (simple) obedience...
Shih King. Major Odes, First Decade. Ode. Part 09 : * p. 377 III. THE MAJOR ODES OF THE KINGDOM. PIECES AND STANZAS ILLUSTRATING THE RELIGIOUS VIEWS AND PRACTICES OF THE WRITERS AND THEIR TIMES. THE FIRST DECADE, OR THAT OF WN WANG. ODE 1. THE WN WANG. CELEBRATING KING WN, DEAD AND ALIVE, AS THE FOUNDER OF THE DYNASTY OF "K"U, SHOWING HOW HIS...
Part Iv. The Books Of Shang. Book Ix : * BOOK IX. THE DAY OF THE SUPPLEMENTARY SACRIFICE TO KO UNG. KO UNG was the title given to W-ting, after his death, in the ancestral temple. A supplementary sacrifice was offered on the day following the regular and more solemn service. What special idea was connected with it, it would be...
Part Iv. The Books Of Shang. Book Iii : * BOOK III. THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF THANG. THANG had made an end of the dynasty of Hsi, and returned to Po, when he issued this Announcement, which may be considered as a solemn inauguration of the new dynasty. He shows bow he had taken possession of the throne in reverent submission to the will...
Part V. The Books Of K And IAu. Book Xxiii : * p. 243 BOOK XXIII. THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF KING KHANG. KHANG was the honorary sacrificial title conferred on "K"o, the son and successor of king "Kh"ng. His reign lasted from B.C. 1078 to 1053. Khang, as an honorary title, has various meanings. In the text it probably denotes--'Who caused the people...
Shih King. Odes Of The Temple And The Altar. Part 22 : * ODE 4. THE "KH"ANG F. CELEBRATING HSIEH, THE ANCESTOR OF THE HOUSE OF SHANG; HSIANG-TH, HIS GRANDSON; THANG, THE FOUNDER OF THE DYNASTY; AND -YIN, THANG'S CHIEF MINISTER AND ADVISER. It does not appear on occasion of what sacrifice this piece was made. The most probable view is that of Mo, th...
The Hsiao King. Chapter Xviii. Filial Piety : * p. 487 CHAPTER XVIII. FILIAL PIETY IN MOURNING FOR PARENTS. The Master said, 'When a filial son is mourning for a parent, he wails, but not with a prolonged sobbing; in the movements of ceremony he pays no attention to his appearance; his words are without elegance of phrase; he cannot bear...
Part V. The Books Of K And IAu. Book Xxx : * BOOK XXX. THE SPEECH OF (THE MARQUIS OF) "KH"IN. THE state of "Kh"in, at the time to which this speech belongs, was one of the most powerful in the kingdom, and already giving promise of what it would grow to. Ultimately, one of its princes overthrew the dynasty of "K"u, and brought feudal Ch...
Shu King. Introduction. The Use Of The Chart : * THE USE OF THE CHART. This chart is intended to represent approximately the aspect of the principal zodiacal stars as seen above the horizon of any place in central China, at any hour of any day, about the year B.C. 2300. In order to apply the chart to a practical purpose, the reader is advised...
Part V. The Books Of K And IAu. Book Ix : * p. 164 BOOK IX. THE ANNOUNCEMENT TO THE PRINCE OF KHANG. OF the ten sons of king Wn, the ninth was called Fng and is generally spoken of as Khang Sh, or 'the uncle, (the prince of) Khang.' We must conclude that Khang was the name of Fng's appanage, somewhere in the royal domain. This Book...
Part V. The Books Of K And IAu. Book X : * BOOK X. THE ANNOUNCEMENT ABOUT DRUNKENNESS. THIS Announcement was, like the last, made to Fng, the prince of Khang, about the time when he was invested with the principality of Wei. Mention has often been made in previous documents of the Sh of the drunken debauchery of "K"ieh as the chief cause...
Shih King. Odes Of The Temple And The Altar. Part 14 : * ODE 7. THE W KIANG. APPROPRIATE TO A SACRIFICE TO KING WN, ASSOCIATED WITH HEAVEN, IN THE HALL OF AUDIENCE. There is, happily, an agreement among the critics as to the occasion to which this piece is referred. It took place in the last month of autumn, in the Hall of Audience, called also '...
Shi King. Lessons From The States. Book Ii. Part 03 : * BOOK II. THE ODES OF SHO AND THE SOUTH. THE Sh and previous portions of the Shih have made us familiar with Sho, the name of the appanage of Shih, one of the principal ministers at the court of "K"u in the first two reigns of the dynasty. The site of the city of Sho was in the present department...
Part V. The Books Of K And IAu. Book Xxix : * BOOK XXIX. THE SPEECH AT P. THE Speech at P carries us back from the time of Phing to that of king "Kh"ng. In the Preface to the Sh it is attributed to Po-"kh"in, the son of the duke of "K"u; and there is a general acquiescence of tradition and critics in this view. We may account for its...
Shih King. Major Odes. The Second Decade. Part 04 : * p. 404 ODE 5, STANZA 1. THE "K"I LO. IN PRAISE OF SOME KING, WHOSE VIRTUE SECURED TO HIM THE FAVOUR OF HEAVEN. Perhaps the response of the feasted personators of the ancestors. Of our admirable, amiable sovereign Most illustrious is the excellent virtue. He orders rightly the people, orders...
Part Ii. The Books Of Yu. Book Iv. The Yi And Ki : * BOOK IV. THE Y AND "K". Y and "K", the names of Shun's Forester and Minister of Agriculture, both of whom receive their appointments in Book i, occur near the commencement of this Book, and occasion is thence taken to give its title to the whole. But without good reason; for these worthies do...
The Hsiao King. Chapter Iii. Filial Piety : * CHAPTER III. FILIAL PIETY IN THE PRINCES OF STATES. Above others, and yet free from pride, they dwell on high, without peril; adhering to economy, and carefully observant of the rules and laws, they are full, without overflowing. To dwell on high without peril is the way long to preserve...
Shu King. Introduction. Chapter Ii. The Credibility : * p. 12 CHAPTER II THE CREDIBILITY OF THE RECORDS IN THE SH Whether the records in the Sh are reliable or not. 1. Accepting the conclusion which I have stated immediately above, I now go on to enquire whether the documents in the Sh can be relied on as genuine narratives of the transactions which...
Part Iv. The Books Of Shang. Book Xi : * BOOK XI. THE COUNT OF WEI. THE conversation recorded here--called, like the last Book, and with as little reason, an 'Announcement '--is referred to B.C. 1123, the year in which the dynasty of Shang perished. Wei was a principality in the royal domain, corresponding to the present district...
Shih King. Odes Of The Temple And The Altar. Part 10 : * The Second Decade, Or That Of "Kh"n Kung. ODE 1. THE "KH"N KUNG. INSTRUCTIONS GIVEN TO THE OFFICERS OF HUSBANDRY. The place of this piece among the sacrificial odes makes us assign it to the conclusion of some sacrifice; but what the sacrifice was we cannot tell. The Preface says that it w...
Shi King. Lessons From The States. Book Iv. Part 02 : * ODE 3, STANZA 2. THE "K"N-ZE KIEH LO. CONTRAST BETWEEN THE BEAUTY AND SPLENDOUR OF HSAN "K"IANG AND HER VICIOUSNESS. Hsan "K"iang was a princess of "Kh", who, towards the close of the seventh century B.C., became wife to the marquis of Wei, known as duke Hsan. She was beautiful and unfortunate...
Shu King. Introduction. Chapter I. The Nature : * INTRODUCTION. CHAPTER I. THE NATURE AND HISTORY OF THE SH. Meaning of the name Sh King. 1. The Sh is the most ancient of the Chinese classical books, and contains historical documents of various kinds, relating to the period from about B.C. 2357-627. The character Sh shows us by its compositi...
The Hsiao King. Chapter Viii. Filial Piety : * CHAPTER VIII. FILIAL PIETY IN GOVERNMENT. The Master said, 'Anciently, when the intelligent kings by means of filial piety ruled all under heaven, they did not dare to receive with disrespect the ministers of small states;--how much less would they do so to the dukes, marquises, counts...
Shih King. Major Odes. The Third Decade. Part 07 : * ODE 11, STANZAS 1 AND 2. THE SHO MIN. THE WRITER APPEALS TO HEAVEN, BEMOANING THE MISERY AND RUIN WHICH WERE GOING ON, AND SHOWING HOW THEY WERE DUE TO THE KING'S EMPLOYMENT OF MEAN AND WORTHLESS CREATURES. Compassionate Heaven is arrayed in angry terrors. Heaven is indeed sending down ru...
The Hsiao King. Chapter Ii. Filial Piety : * CHAPTER II. FILIAL PIETY IN THE SON OF HEAVEN. He who loves his parents will not dare (to incur the risk of) being hated by any man, and he who reveres his parents will not dare (to incur the risk of) being contemned by any man 2. When the love and reverence (of the Son of Heaven) are thus...
Shi King. Lessons From The States. Book Xv : * ODE 1, STANZA 8. THE KH YEH. DESCRIBING LIFE IN PIN IN THE OLDEN TIME; THE PROVIDENT ARRANGEMENTS THERE TO SECURE THE CONSTANT SUPPLY OF FOOD AND RAIMENT,--WHATEVER WAS NECESSARY FOR THE SUPPORT AND COMFORT OF THE PEOPLE. If the piece was made, as the Chinese critics all suppose, by the duke...
Shih King. Major Odes. The Second Decade. Part 08 : * THE SECOND DECADE, OR THAT OF SHNG MIN. ODE 1. THE SHNG MIN. THE LEGEND OF HU-"K":--HIS CONCEPTION; HIS BIRTH; THE PERILS OF HIS INFANCY; HIS BOYISH HABITS OF AGRICULTURE; HIS SUBSEQUENT METHODS AND TEACHING OF AGRICULTURE; HIS FOUNDING OF CERTAIN SACRIFICES; AND THE HONOURS OF SACRIFICE PAID...
Shih King. Minor Odes. The Fourth Decade. Part 06 : * THE FOURTH DECADE, OR THAT OF KH F. ODE 5, STANZAS 5 TO 9. THE SZE KAN. THE SZE KAN WAS, PROBABLY MADE FOR A FESTIVAL ON THE COMPLETION OF A PALACE; CONTAINING A DESCRIPTION OF IT, AND PROCEEDING TO GOOD WISHES FOR THE BUILDER AND HIS POSTERITY. THE STANZAS HERE GIVEN SHOW HOW DIVINATION W...
Shih King. Odes Of The Temple And The Altar. Part 06 : * ODE 5. THE Y K. THE BLIND MUSICIANS OF THE COURT OF "K"U; THE INSTRUMENT OF MUSIC; AND THEIR HARMONY. The critics agree in holding that this piece was made on occasion of the duke of "K"u's completing his instruments of music for the ancestral, temple, and announcing the fact at a gr...
Shih King. Odes Of The Temple And The Altar. Part 18 : * ODE 3. THE WEI "KH"ING. APPROPRIATE AT SOME SACRIFICE TO KING WN, AND CELEBRATING HIS STATUTES. Nothing more can, with any likelihood of truth, be said of this short piece, which moreover has the appearance of being a fragment. Clear and to be preserved bright, Are the statutes of king Wn...
Part V. The Books Of K And IAu. Book Xvi : * BOOK XVI. THE PRINCE SHIH. THE words 'Prince Shih' occur at the commencement of the Book, and are taken as its title. Shih was the name of the duke of Sho, the author of Book xii. To him the address or announcement here preserved was delivered, and his name is not an inappropriate title for it...
The Hsiao King. Chapter Xi. Filial Piety : * CHAPTER XI. FILIAL PIETY IN RELATION TO THE FIVE PUNISHMENTS. The Master said, 'There are three thousand offences against which the five punishments are directed 2, and there is not one of them greater than being unfilial. 'When constraint is put upon a ruler, that is the disowning of his...
Shih King. Odes Of The Temple And The Altar : * ODE 11. THE PAN. CELEBRATING THE GREATNESS OF "K"U, AND ITS FIRM POSSESSION OF THE KINGDOM, AS SEEN IN THE PROGRESSES OF ITS REIGNING SOVEREIGN. In the eighth piece of the first decade we have an ode akin to this, relating a tentative progress of king W, to test the acceptance of his sovereignty...
Shih King. Odes Of The Temple And The Altar. Part 02 : * ODE 9. THE Y KHO. CELEBRATING THE DUKE OF SUNG ON ONE OF HIS APPEARANCES AT THE CAPITAL TO ASSIST AT THE SACRIFICE IN THE ANCESTRAL TEMPLE OF KU;--SHOWING HOW HE WAS ESTEEMED AND CHERISHED BY THE KING. The mention of the white horses here in the chariot of the visitor sufficiently substantiates...
Shih King. Minor Odes. The Fourth Decade. Part 02 : * ODE 9. THE SHIH YEH "K"IH "K"IO. THE LAMENTATION OF AN OFFICER OVER THE PRODIGIES CELESTIAL AND TERRESTRIAL, ESPECIALLY AN ECLIPSE OF THE SUN, THAT WERE BETOKENING THE RUIN OF "K"U. HE SETS FORTH WHAT HE CONSIDERED TO BE THE TRUE CAUSES OF THE PREVAILING MISERY, WHICH WAS BY NO MEANS TO BE...
Shih King. Major Odes. The Third Decade. Part 03 : * ODE 4. THE YUN HAN. KING HSAN, ON OCCASION OF A GREAT DROUGHT, EXPOSTULATES WITH GOD AND ALL THE SPIRITS, WHO MIGHT BE EXPECTED TO HELP HIM AND HIS PEOPLE; ASKS THEM WHEREFORE THEY WERE CONTENDING WITH HIM; AND DETAILS THE MEASURES HE HAD TAKEN, AND WAS STILL TAKING, FOR THE REMOVAL...
Shi King. Lessons From The States. Book Iii. Part 03 : * p. 433 BOOK III. THE ODES OF PHEI. WHEN king W overthrew the dynasty of Shang, the domain of its kings was divided into three portions, the northern portion being called Phei, the southern Yung, and the eastern Wei, the rulers of which last in course of time absorbed the other two. It is...
Shih King. Major Odes, First Decade. Ode : * ODE 10. THE WN WANG Y SHNG. THE PRAISE OF KINGS WN AND W:--HOW THE FORMER DISPLAYED HIS MILITARY PROWESS ONLY TO SECURE THE TRANQUILLITY OF THE PEOPLE; AND HOW THE LATTER, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE RESULTS OF DIVINATION, ENTERED IN HIS NEW CAPITAL OF HO, INTO THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE KINGDOM WITH...
Hsiao King, The Classic Of Filial Piety : * p. 447 THE HSIO KING OR CLASSIC OF FILIAL PIETY. Scanned At Www"s"acred-texts.com August-September 2000. Revised July 2005.
Shi King. Lessons From The States. Book Iii : * ODE 15, STANZA 1. THE PEI MN. AN OFFICER OF WEI SETS FORTH HIS HARD LOT, THROUGH DISTRESSES AND THE BURDENS LAID UPON HIM, AND HIS SILENCE UNDER IT IN SUBMISSION TO HEAVEN. I go out at the north gate, With my heart full of sorrow. Straitened am I and poor, And no one takes knowledge of my...
Shih King. Major Odes. The Third Decade. Part 09 : * p. 427 ODE 8, STANZAS 4 AND 5. THE "K"IANG HAN. CELEBRATING AN EXPEDITION AGAINST THE SOUTHERN TRIBES OF THE HWI, AND THE WORK DONE FOR THE KING IN THEIR COUNTRY, BY H, THE EARL OF SHO, WITH THE MANNER IN WHICH THE KING REWARDED HIM, AND HE RESPONDED TO THE ROYAL FAVOUR. H was probably the same...
Shih King. Introduction. Chapter Iv : * p. 290 CHAPTER IV. THE FORMATION OF THE COLLECTION OF THE SHIH; HOW IT CAME TO BE SO SMALL AND INCOMPLETE; THE INTERPRETATION AND AUTHORS OF THE PIECES; ONE POINT OF TIME CERTAINLY INDICATED IN IT; AND THE CONFUCIAN PREFACE. 1. It has been shown above, in the second chapter, that the Shih...
Shih King. Minor Odes. The First Decade. Part 02 : * ODE 6. THE THIEN PO. A FESTAL ODE, RESPONSIVE TO ANY OF THE FIVE THAT PRECEDE IT. THE KING'S OFFICERS AND GUESTS, HAVING BEEN FEASTED BY HIM, CELEBRATE HIS PRAISES, AND DESIRE FOR HIM THE BLESSING OF HEAVEN AND HIS ANCESTORS. Ascribed, like the former, to the duke of "K"u. Heaven protects...
Shih King. Odes Of The Temple And The Altar. Part 08 : * ODE 3. THE "K"U L. CELEBRATING THE REPRESENTATIVES OF FORMER DYNASTIES, WHO HAD COME TO COURT TO ASSIST AT A SACRIFICE IN THE ANCESTRAL TEMPLE. This piece may have been used when the king was dismissing his distinguished guests in the ancestral temple. See the introductory note to this Part, pp...
Shih King. Major Odes. The Second Decade. Part 06 : * ODE 3. THE "K" UI. RESPONSIVE TO THE LAST:--THE UNCLES AND BRETHREN OF THE KING EXPRESS THEIR SENSE OF HIS KINDNESS, AND THEIR WISHES FOR HIS HAPPINESS, MOSTLY IN THE WORDS IN WHICH THE PERSONATORS OF THE DEPARTED ANCESTORS HAD CONVEYED THEIR SATISFACTION WITH THE SACRIFICE OFFERED TO THEM...
Shih King. Odes Of The Temple And The Altar. Part 16 : * ODE 5. THE THIEN O. APPROPRIATE TO A SACRIFICE TO KING THI. We cannot tell what the sacrifice was; and the Preface, indeed, says that the piece was used in the seasonal sacrifices to all the former king., s and dukes of the House of "K"u. King Thi was the grandfather of king Wn, and, before he...
Shih King. Odes Of The Temple And The Altar. Part 12 : * p. 319 ODE 9. THE "K"IH "K"ING. AN ODE APPROPRIATE IN SACRIFICING TO THE KINGS W, "KH"NG, AND KHANG. The Chinese critics differ in the interpretation of this ode, the Preface and older scholars restricting it to a sacrifice to king W, while "K" Hs and others find reference in it, as to me also...
Shih King. Major Odes. The Second Decade. Part 02 : * ODE 9, STANZA 1. THE MIN LO. IN A TIME OF DISORDER AND SUFFERING, SOME OFFICER OF, DISTINCTION CALLS ON HIS FELLOWS TO JOIN WITH HIM TO EFFECT A REFORMATION IN THE CAPITAL, AND PUT AWAY THE PARTIES WHO WERE THE CAUSE OF THE PREVAILING MISERY. With the "Kh"an , what are called the 'correct' odes...
