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1His 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). While living we may have to occupy different apartments; But, when dead, we shall share the same grave. If you say that I am not sincere, By the bright sun I swear that I am}. Book X. Tue Obes oF THANG. Tue odes of Thang were really the odes of 3in, the greatest of the fiefs of Xu until the rise of KAin. King AA&ng, in B.c. 1107, invested his younger brother, called ShQ-yii, with the territory where Y40 was supposed to have ruled anciently as the marquis of Thang, in the present department of Thai-ytian, Shan-hsi, the fief retaining that ancient name. Subsequently the name of the state was changed to 3in, from the river in in the southern part of it. Ope 8, Stanza 1. THE PAo Yu. THE MEN OF 3IN, 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 PUR- SUITS, MAKING THEIR APPEAL TO HEAVEN. Sd-sQ go the feathers of the wild geese, As 1 In the ‘Complete Digest’ this oath is expanded in the following way :—' These words are from my heart. If you think that they are not sincere, there is (a Power) above, like the bright sun, observing me ;—how should my words not be sincere?’ ODE II. LESSONS FROM THE STATES. 441 they settle on the bushy oaks’. The king’s affairs must not be slackly discharged, And (so) we cannot plant our millets;—What will our parents have to rely on? O thou distant and azure Heaven?! When shall we be in our places again ? Ope 11. Tue Ko SuH&nc. A WIFE MOURNS THE DEATH OF HER HUSBAND, REFUSING TO BE COM- FORTED, AND DECLARES THAT SHE WILL CHERISH HIS MEMORY TILL HER OWN DEATH. I - is supposed that the husband whose death is bewailed in this piece had died in one of the military expeditions of which duke Hsien (.c. 676—651) was fond. It may have been so, but there is nothing in the piece to make us think of duke Hsien. I give it a place in the volume, not because of the religious sentiment in it, but because of the absence of that sentiment, where we might expect it. The lady shows the grand virtue of a Chinese widow, in that she will never marry again. And her grief would not be assuaged. The days would all seem long summer days, and the nights all long winter nights; so that a hundred long years would seem to drag their slow course. But there is not any hope expressed of a re-union with her husband in another state. The ‘abode’ and the ‘chamber’ of which she speaks are to be understood of his grave; and her thoughts do not appear to go beyond it. The dolichos grows, covering the thorn trees ; The convolvulus spreads all over the waste *. The
2The ‘abode’ and the ‘chamber’ of which she speaks are to be understood of his grave; and her thoughts do not appear to go beyond it. The dolichos grows, covering the thorn trees ; The convolvulus spreads all over the waste *. The * Trees are not the proper place for geese to rest on; and the attempt to do so is productive of much noise and trouble to the birds. The lines would seem to allude to the hardships of the soldiers’ lot, called from their homes to go on a distant expedition. 2 See note 2 on ode 1 of Book vi, where Heaven is appealed to in the same language. » These two lines are taken as allusive, the speaker being led by the sight of the weak plants supported by the trees, shrubs, and tombs, to think of her own desolate, unsupported condition. But they may also be taken as narrative, and descriptive of the battleground, where her husband had met his death. 442 THE SHIH KING. BOOK XI. man of my admiration is no more here ;—With whom can I dwell? I abide alone. The dolichos grows, covering the jujube trees ; The convolvulus spreads all over the tombs. The man of my admiration is no more here ;—With whom can I dwell? I rest alone. How beautiful was the pillow of horn! How splendid was the embroidered coverlet!! The man of my admiration is no more here ;—With whom can I dwell? Alone (I wait for) the morning. Through the (long) days of summer, Through the (long) nights of winter (shall I be alone), Till the lapse of a hundred years, When I shall go home to his abode. Through the (long) nights of winter, Through the (long) days of summer (shall I be alone), Till the lapse of a hundred years, When I shall go home to his chamber. Book XI. Tue Opes or Kun. Tuk state of XAin took its name from its earliest principal city, in the present district of AAing-shui, in KAin Kau, Kan-sf. Its chiefs claimed to be descended from Yi, who appears in the Shi as the forester of Shun, and the assistant of the great Yi in his labours on the flood of Y4o. The history of his descendants is very imperfectly related till we come to a Fei-3ze, who had charge of the herds of horses belonging to king Hsifo(B.c. gog- 895), and in consequence of his good services was invested with 1 These things had been ornaments of the bridal chamber ; and as the widow thinks of them, her grief becomes more intense. ODE 6. LESSONS FROM THE STATES. 443 the small territory of Kin, as an attached state. A descendant of his, known as duke Hsiang, in consequence of his loyal services, when the capital was moved to the east in B.c. 770, was raised to the dignity of an earl, and took his place among the great feudal princes of the kingdom, receiving also a large portion of territory, which included the ancient capital of the House of Xau. In course of time XAin, as is well known, superseded the dynasty of Kau, having gradually moved its capital more and more to the east. The people of K/in were, no doubt, mainly composed of the wild tribes of the west.
3In course of time XAin, as is well known, superseded the dynasty of Kau, having gradually moved its capital more and more to the east. The people of K/in were, no doubt, mainly composed of the wild tribes of the west. Ope 6, Stanza 1. Tue Hwane Nido. LAMENT FOR THREE WORTHIES OF XHIN, WHO WERE BURIED IN THE SAME GRAVE WITH DUKE MO. There is no difficulty or difference in the interpretation of this piece ; and it brings us down to B.c. 621. Then died duke Mf, after playing an important part in the north-west of China for thirty-nine years. The 30 Awan, under the sixth year of duke Wan, makes mention of M(’s requiring that the three brothers here celebrated should be buried with him, and of the composition of this piece in consequence. Sze-m4 Xfien says that this barbarous practice began with M(’s predecessor, with whom sixty-six persons were buried alive, and that one hundred and seventy-seven in all were buried with MQ. The death of the last distinguished man of the House of X/in, the emperor I, was subsequently celebrated by the entombment with him of all the inmates of his harem. They flit about, the yellow birds, And rest upon the jujube trees’. Who followed duke MQ in the grave? 3ze-4ii Yen-hsi. And this Yen-hsi Was a man above a hundred. When he came to the 1 It is difficult to see the relation between these two allusive lines and the rest of the stanza. Some say that it is this,—that the people loved the three victims as they liked the birds; others that the birds among the trees were in their proper place,—very different from the brothers in the grave of duke Ma. 444 THE SHIH KING. BOOK Xv. grave, He looked terrified and trembled. Thou azure Heaven there! Could he have been redeemed, We would have given a hundred (ordinary) men for him}, Book XV. Tue Obes or Pin. Duke Lif, an ancestor of the K4u family, made a settlement, according to its traditions, in B.c. 1797, in Pin, the site of which is pointed out, go If to the west of the present district city of San-shui, in Pin A Au, Shen-hsf, where the tribe remained till the movement eastwards of Than-f, celebrated in the first decade of the Major Odes of the Kingdom, ode 3. The duke of X4u, during the minority of king AKA&ng, made, it is supposed, the first of the pieces in this Book, describing for the instruction of the young monarch, the ancient ways of their fathers in Pin ; and subsequently some one compiled other odes made by the duke, and others also about him, and brought them together under the common name of ‘the Odes of Pin.’ Ope 1, Stanza 8. THE Axzt YUE. DESCRIBING LIFE IN PIN IN THE OLDEN TIME } THE PROVIDENT ARRANGE- MENTS THERE TO SECURE THE CONSTANT SUPPLY OF FOOD AND RAIMENT,— WHATEVER WAS NECESSARY FOR THE SUPPORT AND CON- FORT OF THE PEOPLE.
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1His 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). While living we may have to occupy different apartments; But, when dead, we shall share the same grave. If you say that I am not sincere, By the bright sun I swear that I am}. Book X. Tue Obes oF THANG. Tue odes of Thang were really the odes of 3in, the greatest of the fiefs of Xu until the rise of KAin. King AA&ng, in B.c. 1107, invested his younger brother, called ShQ-yii, with the territory where Y40 was supposed to have ruled anciently as the marquis of Thang, in the present department of Thai-ytian, Shan-hsi, the fief retaining that ancient name. Subsequently the name of the state was changed to 3in, from the river in in the southern part of it. Ope 8, Stanza 1. THE PAo Yu. THE MEN OF 3IN, 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 PUR- SUITS, MAKING THEIR APPEAL TO HEAVEN. Sd-sQ go the feathers of the wild geese, As 1 In the ‘Complete Digest’ this oath is expanded in the following way :—' These words are from my heart. If you think that they are not sincere, there is (a Power) above, like the bright sun, observing me ;—how should my words not be sincere?’ ODE II. LESSONS FROM THE STATES. 441 they settle on the bushy oaks’. The king’s affairs must not be slackly discharged, And (so) we cannot plant our millets;—What will our parents have to rely on? O thou distant and azure Heaven?! When shall we be in our places again ? Ope 11. Tue Ko SuH&nc. A WIFE MOURNS THE DEATH OF HER HUSBAND, REFUSING TO BE COM- FORTED, AND DECLARES THAT SHE WILL CHERISH HIS MEMORY TILL HER OWN DEATH. I - is supposed that the husband whose death is bewailed in this piece had died in one of the military expeditions of which duke Hsien (.c. 676—651) was fond. It may have been so, but there is nothing in the piece to make us think of duke Hsien. I give it a place in the volume, not because of the religious sentiment in it, but because of the absence of that sentiment, where we might expect it. The lady shows the grand virtue of a Chinese widow, in that she will never marry again. And her grief would not be assuaged. The days would all seem long summer days, and the nights all long winter nights; so that a hundred long years would seem to drag their slow course. But there is not any hope expressed of a re-union with her husband in another state. The ‘abode’ and the ‘chamber’ of which she speaks are to be understood of his grave; and her thoughts do not appear to go beyond it. The dolichos grows, covering the thorn trees ; The convolvulus spreads all over the waste *. The
2The ‘abode’ and the ‘chamber’ of which she speaks are to be understood of his grave; and her thoughts do not appear to go beyond it. The dolichos grows, covering the thorn trees ; The convolvulus spreads all over the waste *. The * Trees are not the proper place for geese to rest on; and the attempt to do so is productive of much noise and trouble to the birds. The lines would seem to allude to the hardships of the soldiers’ lot, called from their homes to go on a distant expedition. 2 See note 2 on ode 1 of Book vi, where Heaven is appealed to in the same language. » These two lines are taken as allusive, the speaker being led by the sight of the weak plants supported by the trees, shrubs, and tombs, to think of her own desolate, unsupported condition. But they may also be taken as narrative, and descriptive of the battleground, where her husband had met his death. 442 THE SHIH KING. BOOK XI. man of my admiration is no more here ;—With whom can I dwell? I abide alone. The dolichos grows, covering the jujube trees ; The convolvulus spreads all over the tombs. The man of my admiration is no more here ;—With whom can I dwell? I rest alone. How beautiful was the pillow of horn! How splendid was the embroidered coverlet!! The man of my admiration is no more here ;—With whom can I dwell? Alone (I wait for) the morning. Through the (long) days of summer, Through the (long) nights of winter (shall I be alone), Till the lapse of a hundred years, When I shall go home to his abode. Through the (long) nights of winter, Through the (long) days of summer (shall I be alone), Till the lapse of a hundred years, When I shall go home to his chamber. Book XI. Tue Opes or Kun. Tuk state of XAin took its name from its earliest principal city, in the present district of AAing-shui, in KAin Kau, Kan-sf. Its chiefs claimed to be descended from Yi, who appears in the Shi as the forester of Shun, and the assistant of the great Yi in his labours on the flood of Y4o. The history of his descendants is very imperfectly related till we come to a Fei-3ze, who had charge of the herds of horses belonging to king Hsifo(B.c. gog- 895), and in consequence of his good services was invested with 1 These things had been ornaments of the bridal chamber ; and as the widow thinks of them, her grief becomes more intense. ODE 6. LESSONS FROM THE STATES. 443 the small territory of Kin, as an attached state. A descendant of his, known as duke Hsiang, in consequence of his loyal services, when the capital was moved to the east in B.c. 770, was raised to the dignity of an earl, and took his place among the great feudal princes of the kingdom, receiving also a large portion of territory, which included the ancient capital of the House of Xau. In course of time XAin, as is well known, superseded the dynasty of Kau, having gradually moved its capital more and more to the east. The people of K/in were, no doubt, mainly composed of the wild tribes of the west.
3In course of time XAin, as is well known, superseded the dynasty of Kau, having gradually moved its capital more and more to the east. The people of K/in were, no doubt, mainly composed of the wild tribes of the west. Ope 6, Stanza 1. Tue Hwane Nido. LAMENT FOR THREE WORTHIES OF XHIN, WHO WERE BURIED IN THE SAME GRAVE WITH DUKE MO. There is no difficulty or difference in the interpretation of this piece ; and it brings us down to B.c. 621. Then died duke Mf, after playing an important part in the north-west of China for thirty-nine years. The 30 Awan, under the sixth year of duke Wan, makes mention of M(’s requiring that the three brothers here celebrated should be buried with him, and of the composition of this piece in consequence. Sze-m4 Xfien says that this barbarous practice began with M(’s predecessor, with whom sixty-six persons were buried alive, and that one hundred and seventy-seven in all were buried with MQ. The death of the last distinguished man of the House of X/in, the emperor I, was subsequently celebrated by the entombment with him of all the inmates of his harem. They flit about, the yellow birds, And rest upon the jujube trees’. Who followed duke MQ in the grave? 3ze-4ii Yen-hsi. And this Yen-hsi Was a man above a hundred. When he came to the 1 It is difficult to see the relation between these two allusive lines and the rest of the stanza. Some say that it is this,—that the people loved the three victims as they liked the birds; others that the birds among the trees were in their proper place,—very different from the brothers in the grave of duke Ma. 444 THE SHIH KING. BOOK Xv. grave, He looked terrified and trembled. Thou azure Heaven there! Could he have been redeemed, We would have given a hundred (ordinary) men for him}, Book XV. Tue Obes or Pin. Duke Lif, an ancestor of the K4u family, made a settlement, according to its traditions, in B.c. 1797, in Pin, the site of which is pointed out, go If to the west of the present district city of San-shui, in Pin A Au, Shen-hsf, where the tribe remained till the movement eastwards of Than-f, celebrated in the first decade of the Major Odes of the Kingdom, ode 3. The duke of X4u, during the minority of king AKA&ng, made, it is supposed, the first of the pieces in this Book, describing for the instruction of the young monarch, the ancient ways of their fathers in Pin ; and subsequently some one compiled other odes made by the duke, and others also about him, and brought them together under the common name of ‘the Odes of Pin.’ Ope 1, Stanza 8. THE Axzt YUE. DESCRIBING LIFE IN PIN IN THE OLDEN TIME } THE PROVIDENT ARRANGE- MENTS THERE TO SECURE THE CONSTANT SUPPLY OF FOOD AND RAIMENT,— WHATEVER WAS NECESSARY FOR THE SUPPORT AND CON- FORT OF THE PEOPLE.
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