Shi King. Lessons From The States. Book X. Part 03
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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, in the present department of Thi-yan, Shan-hs, the fief retaining that ancient name. Subsequently the name of the state was changed to in, from the river in in the southern part of it.
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, in the present department of Thi-yan, Shan-hs, the fief retaining that ancient name. Subsequently the name of the state was changed to in, from the river in in the southern part of it.
