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1She was beautiful and unfortunate, but various things are related of her indicative of the grossest immoralities prevailing in the court of Wei. How rich and splendid Is her pheasant-figured 1 These allusive lines, probably, indicate the speaker’s widowhood, which left her like ‘a boat floating about on the water.’ 2 Such was the mode in which the hair was kept, while a boy or young man’s parents were alive, parted into two tufts from the pia mater, and brought down as low as the eyebrows on either side of the forehead. ® Mao thought that the lady intended her father by ‘Heaven ;’ while Af held that her father may have been dead, and that the mother is called Heaven, with reference to the kindness and protection that she ought to show. There seems rather to be in the term a wild, and not very intelligent, appeal to the supreme Power in heaven. Ff2 436 THE SHIH KING. BOOK Iv. 6. robe!! Her black hair in masses like clouds, No false locks does she descend to. There are her earplugs of jade, Her comb-pin of ivory, And her high forehead, so white. She appears like a visitant from heaven! She appears like a goddess ?. Ope 6, Stanzas1anp2. Tue TING 1H FANG AUNG. CELEBRATING THE PRAISE OF DUKE WAN ;—-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 of Kau. Under the marquis Wei, known in history as duke W4n, its fortunes revived, and he became a sort of second founder of the state. When Ting culminated (at night-fall)*, He began to build the palace at KA#i*, Determining 1 The lady is introduced arrayed in the gorgeous robes worn by the princess of a state in the ancestral temple. * P. Lacharme translated these two concluding lines by ‘Tu primo aspectu coelos (pulchritudine), et imperatorem (majestate) adaequas,’ without any sanction of the Chinese critics ; and more- over there was no Tf ff) in the sense of imperator then in China. The sovereigns of Kau were wang or kings. AQ Hstf expands the lines thus :—‘Such is the beayty of her robes and appearance, that beholders are struck with awe, as if she were a spiritual being.’ Hst Ahien (Yuian dynasty) deals with them thus: —‘ With such splendour of beauty and dress, how is it that she is here? She has come down from heaven! She is a spiritual being ! * Ting is the name of a small space in the heavens, embracing a Markab and another star of Pegasus. Its culminating at night-fall was the signal that the labours of husbandry were over for the year, and that building operations should be taken in hand. Great as was the urgency for the building of his new capital, duke Wain would not take it in hand till the proper time for such a labour was arrived. . * Kd, or KAd-kAit, was the new capital of Wei, in the present district of KAAng-wh, department 3/40-Aau, Shan-tung. BOOK V. 4. LESSONS FROM THE STATES. 437
2. * Kd, or KAd-kAit, was the new capital of Wei, in the present district of KAAng-wh, department 3/40-Aau, Shan-tung. BOOK V. 4. LESSONS FROM THE STATES. 437 its aspects by means of the sun. He built the palace at KAd. He planted about it hazel and chesnut trees, The f, the Thung, the 8ze, and the varnish tree. Which, when cut down, might afford materials for lutes. He ascended those old walls, And thence surveyed (the site of) A#t. He surveyed KA and Thang?, With the lofty hills and high elevations about. He descended and examined the mulberry trees. He then divined by the tortoise-shell, and got a favourable response?; And thus the issue has been truly good. Book V. THE Opes or WEIL. Ir 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 W4, called Khang-shf, was invested. The principality was afterwards increased by the absorption of Phei and Yung. It came to embrace portions of the present pro- — vinces of Xih-If, Shan-tung, and Ho-nan. It outlasted the dynasty of Ku itself, the last prince of Wei being reduced to the ranks of the people only during the dynasty of Xhin. Ope 4, Stanzas 1 AND 2. THe MANa. 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 generally into the ordinary affairs of life. A simple-looking lad you were, Carrying cloth 1 Thang was the name of a town, evidently not far from AQ. 2 We have seen before how divination was resorted to on occasion of new undertakings, especially in proceeding to rear a city. 438 THE SHIH KING. BOOK VI. to exchange it for silk. (But) you came not so to purchase silk ;—You came to make proposals to me. I convoyed you through the KAi}, As far as Tun-A/ih?, ‘It is not I,’ (I said), ‘who would protract the time; But you have had no good gobetween. I pray you be notangry, And let autumn be the time.’ I ascended that ruinous wall, To look towards Fd-kwan*; And when I saw (you) not (coming from) it, My tears flowed in streams. When I did see (you coming from) Fd-kwan, I laughed and I spoke. You had consulted, (you said), the tortoiseshell and the divining stalks, And there was nothing unfavourable in their response*. ‘Then come,’ (I said), ‘with your carriage, And I will remove with my goods.’ Book VI. Tue Opes or THE RoyaL Domain. Kine Win, it has been seen, had for his capital the city of Fang, from which his son, king WO, moved the seat of government to Hao. In the time of king KAing, a city was built by the duke 1 The XAt was a famous river of Wei. * Tun-éAit was a well-known place —‘the mound or height of Tun’—south of the Wei.
3In the time of king KAing, a city was built by the duke 1 The XAt was a famous river of Wei. * Tun-éAit was a well-known place —‘the mound or height of Tun’—south of the Wei. 5 Ffi-kwan must have been the place where the man lived, according to AQ. Rather, it must have been a pass (Fd-kwan may mean ‘ the gate or pass of FQ’), through which he would come, and was visible from near the residence of the woman. ‘ Ying-t@ observes that the man had never divined about the matter, and said that he had done so only to complete the process of seduction. The critics dwell on the inconsistency of divination being resorted to in such a case:—‘ Divination is proper only if used in reference to what is right and moral.’ ODE I. LESSONS FROM THE STATES, 439 of Xéu, near the present Lo-yang, and called ‘the eastern capital.’ Meetings of the princes of the states assembled there ; but the court continued to be held at Hao till the accession of king Phing in B.c. 770. From that time, the kings of Kau sank nearly to the level of the princes of the states, and the poems collected in their domain were classed among the ‘ Lessons of Manners from the States,’ though still distinguished by the epithet ‘royal’ prefixed to them. Ope 1, Stanza 1. Tue Sut Li. AN OFFICER DESCRIBES HIS MELANCHOLY AND REFLECTIONS ON SEEING THE DESOLATION OF THE OLD CAPITAL OF KAU, MAKING HIS MOAN TO HEAVEN BECAUSE OF IT. There is no specific mention of the old capital of X4u in the piece, but the schools of M4o and @ are agreed in this interpretation, which is much more likely than any of the others that have been proposed. There was the millet with its drooping heads; There was: the sacrificial millet coming into blade. Slowly I moved about, In my heart all-agitated. Those who knew me_ Said I was sad at heart. Those who did not know me, Said I was seeking for something. O thou distant and azure Heaven?! By what man was this (brought about) *? 1 That is, there where the ancestral temple and other grand buildings of H4o had once stood. 2 *He cried out to Heaven,’ says Yen 3an, ‘and told (his distress), but he calls it distant in its azure brightness, lamenting that his complaint was not heard.’ This is, probably, the correct explanation of the language. The speaker would by it express his grief that the dynasty of Kau and its people were abandoned and uncared for by Heaven. 8 Referring to king YQ, whose reckless course had led to the destruction of Hao by the Zung, and in a minor degree to his son, king Phing, who had subsequently removed to the eastern capital. 440 THE SHIH KING, BOOK x. Ope 9, Stanzas 1 anp 8. Tue TA XU. A LADY EXCUSES HERSELF FOR NOT FLYING TO HER LOVER BY HER FEAR OF A SEVERE AND VIRTUOUS MAGISTRATE, AND SWEARS TO HIM 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 think of you? But I am afraid of this officer, and dare not (fly to you).
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Romanised transliteration as printed by the translator, not the original script. This is what we hold.
1She was beautiful and unfortunate, but various things are related of her indicative of the grossest immoralities prevailing in the court of Wei. How rich and splendid Is her pheasant-figured 1 These allusive lines, probably, indicate the speaker’s widowhood, which left her like ‘a boat floating about on the water.’ 2 Such was the mode in which the hair was kept, while a boy or young man’s parents were alive, parted into two tufts from the pia mater, and brought down as low as the eyebrows on either side of the forehead. ® Mao thought that the lady intended her father by ‘Heaven ;’ while Af held that her father may have been dead, and that the mother is called Heaven, with reference to the kindness and protection that she ought to show. There seems rather to be in the term a wild, and not very intelligent, appeal to the supreme Power in heaven. Ff2 436 THE SHIH KING. BOOK Iv. 6. robe!! Her black hair in masses like clouds, No false locks does she descend to. There are her earplugs of jade, Her comb-pin of ivory, And her high forehead, so white. She appears like a visitant from heaven! She appears like a goddess ?. Ope 6, Stanzas1anp2. Tue TING 1H FANG AUNG. CELEBRATING THE PRAISE OF DUKE WAN ;—-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 of Kau. Under the marquis Wei, known in history as duke W4n, its fortunes revived, and he became a sort of second founder of the state. When Ting culminated (at night-fall)*, He began to build the palace at KA#i*, Determining 1 The lady is introduced arrayed in the gorgeous robes worn by the princess of a state in the ancestral temple. * P. Lacharme translated these two concluding lines by ‘Tu primo aspectu coelos (pulchritudine), et imperatorem (majestate) adaequas,’ without any sanction of the Chinese critics ; and more- over there was no Tf ff) in the sense of imperator then in China. The sovereigns of Kau were wang or kings. AQ Hstf expands the lines thus :—‘Such is the beayty of her robes and appearance, that beholders are struck with awe, as if she were a spiritual being.’ Hst Ahien (Yuian dynasty) deals with them thus: —‘ With such splendour of beauty and dress, how is it that she is here? She has come down from heaven! She is a spiritual being ! * Ting is the name of a small space in the heavens, embracing a Markab and another star of Pegasus. Its culminating at night-fall was the signal that the labours of husbandry were over for the year, and that building operations should be taken in hand. Great as was the urgency for the building of his new capital, duke Wain would not take it in hand till the proper time for such a labour was arrived. . * Kd, or KAd-kAit, was the new capital of Wei, in the present district of KAAng-wh, department 3/40-Aau, Shan-tung. BOOK V. 4. LESSONS FROM THE STATES. 437
2. * Kd, or KAd-kAit, was the new capital of Wei, in the present district of KAAng-wh, department 3/40-Aau, Shan-tung. BOOK V. 4. LESSONS FROM THE STATES. 437 its aspects by means of the sun. He built the palace at KAd. He planted about it hazel and chesnut trees, The f, the Thung, the 8ze, and the varnish tree. Which, when cut down, might afford materials for lutes. He ascended those old walls, And thence surveyed (the site of) A#t. He surveyed KA and Thang?, With the lofty hills and high elevations about. He descended and examined the mulberry trees. He then divined by the tortoise-shell, and got a favourable response?; And thus the issue has been truly good. Book V. THE Opes or WEIL. Ir 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 W4, called Khang-shf, was invested. The principality was afterwards increased by the absorption of Phei and Yung. It came to embrace portions of the present pro- — vinces of Xih-If, Shan-tung, and Ho-nan. It outlasted the dynasty of Ku itself, the last prince of Wei being reduced to the ranks of the people only during the dynasty of Xhin. Ope 4, Stanzas 1 AND 2. THe MANa. 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 generally into the ordinary affairs of life. A simple-looking lad you were, Carrying cloth 1 Thang was the name of a town, evidently not far from AQ. 2 We have seen before how divination was resorted to on occasion of new undertakings, especially in proceeding to rear a city. 438 THE SHIH KING. BOOK VI. to exchange it for silk. (But) you came not so to purchase silk ;—You came to make proposals to me. I convoyed you through the KAi}, As far as Tun-A/ih?, ‘It is not I,’ (I said), ‘who would protract the time; But you have had no good gobetween. I pray you be notangry, And let autumn be the time.’ I ascended that ruinous wall, To look towards Fd-kwan*; And when I saw (you) not (coming from) it, My tears flowed in streams. When I did see (you coming from) Fd-kwan, I laughed and I spoke. You had consulted, (you said), the tortoiseshell and the divining stalks, And there was nothing unfavourable in their response*. ‘Then come,’ (I said), ‘with your carriage, And I will remove with my goods.’ Book VI. Tue Opes or THE RoyaL Domain. Kine Win, it has been seen, had for his capital the city of Fang, from which his son, king WO, moved the seat of government to Hao. In the time of king KAing, a city was built by the duke 1 The XAt was a famous river of Wei. * Tun-éAit was a well-known place —‘the mound or height of Tun’—south of the Wei.
3In the time of king KAing, a city was built by the duke 1 The XAt was a famous river of Wei. * Tun-éAit was a well-known place —‘the mound or height of Tun’—south of the Wei. 5 Ffi-kwan must have been the place where the man lived, according to AQ. Rather, it must have been a pass (Fd-kwan may mean ‘ the gate or pass of FQ’), through which he would come, and was visible from near the residence of the woman. ‘ Ying-t@ observes that the man had never divined about the matter, and said that he had done so only to complete the process of seduction. The critics dwell on the inconsistency of divination being resorted to in such a case:—‘ Divination is proper only if used in reference to what is right and moral.’ ODE I. LESSONS FROM THE STATES, 439 of Xéu, near the present Lo-yang, and called ‘the eastern capital.’ Meetings of the princes of the states assembled there ; but the court continued to be held at Hao till the accession of king Phing in B.c. 770. From that time, the kings of Kau sank nearly to the level of the princes of the states, and the poems collected in their domain were classed among the ‘ Lessons of Manners from the States,’ though still distinguished by the epithet ‘royal’ prefixed to them. Ope 1, Stanza 1. Tue Sut Li. AN OFFICER DESCRIBES HIS MELANCHOLY AND REFLECTIONS ON SEEING THE DESOLATION OF THE OLD CAPITAL OF KAU, MAKING HIS MOAN TO HEAVEN BECAUSE OF IT. There is no specific mention of the old capital of X4u in the piece, but the schools of M4o and @ are agreed in this interpretation, which is much more likely than any of the others that have been proposed. There was the millet with its drooping heads; There was: the sacrificial millet coming into blade. Slowly I moved about, In my heart all-agitated. Those who knew me_ Said I was sad at heart. Those who did not know me, Said I was seeking for something. O thou distant and azure Heaven?! By what man was this (brought about) *? 1 That is, there where the ancestral temple and other grand buildings of H4o had once stood. 2 *He cried out to Heaven,’ says Yen 3an, ‘and told (his distress), but he calls it distant in its azure brightness, lamenting that his complaint was not heard.’ This is, probably, the correct explanation of the language. The speaker would by it express his grief that the dynasty of Kau and its people were abandoned and uncared for by Heaven. 8 Referring to king YQ, whose reckless course had led to the destruction of Hao by the Zung, and in a minor degree to his son, king Phing, who had subsequently removed to the eastern capital. 440 THE SHIH KING, BOOK x. Ope 9, Stanzas 1 anp 8. Tue TA XU. A LADY EXCUSES HERSELF FOR NOT FLYING TO HER LOVER BY HER FEAR OF A SEVERE AND VIRTUOUS MAGISTRATE, AND SWEARS TO HIM 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 think of you? But I am afraid of this officer, and dare not (fly to you).
The source text as printed, transcribed diplomatically. Where the source language uses a non-Latin script that reaches us only through a Victorian romanisation, this layer is labelled transliteration, because that is what we hold.
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