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1The Tt said to them, ‘ Be reverent!’ 1 The Kwei is a small stream in Shan-hsf, which flows into the Ho. PART II. THE. BOOKS OF YU. Book I. THe Canon or Suun. Tue Books of Yii is the name of this Part of the Sh, Yi being the dynastic designation of Shun, as Thang was that of Yao. It does not appear so clearly, however, how it came to be so. Yii must be the name of a state, and is commonly identified with the present district of An-yi, in Kieh K4u, Shan-hsf. Some think that YAo, after marrying his two daughters to Shun, appointed him lord of this state; but in the first mention of him to Y4o in the last Book, he is called Shun of Yi. It is generally said that Shun’s ancestors had been lords of the principality of Yii up to the time of his father, who lost his patrimony and was reduced to the rank of a private man. But after what has been said, in the Introduction, on the Books in the first two Parts of the Shi, it will not be thought surprising that much in the accounts about Y4o and Shun should be open to suspicion. According to Mencius, IV, Part ii, ch. 1, Shun was from the country of the wild tribes on the east. Sze-m4 K/ien makes him to have been descended from Hwang-Ti, in which case he and his wives, the daughters of Y4o, would have had the same ancestor. Nothing more injurious to the fame of Yo and Shun, according to Chinese notions of propriety, could be alleged against them. Shun is the subject of this Canon, as Y4o was of the former. As it now stands, we may divide it into six chapters :—the first, describing Shun’s virtues and gradual advancement; the second, Y4o’s satisfaction with his administration of affairs, and associating of Shun with himself on the throne; the third, the acts of Shun in that position; the fourth, the demise of Yao, and Shun’s accession as sole monarch; the fifth, his choice of ministers and complete organization of his government; and the sixth, his death. 38 THE SHO KING. PART Il. 1. Examining into antiquity, (we find that) the Tit Shun! was styled Aung-hw4?, His character was entirely conformed to (that of) the (former) T1;he was profound, wise, accomplished, and intelligent. He was mild and courteous, and truly sincere. The report of his mysterious virtue was heard on high, and he was appointed to office. 2. (Shun) carefully set forth the beauty of the five cardinal duties, and they came to be (universally) observed. Being appointed to be General Regulator, the affairs of every (official) department were arranged in their proper seasons. (Being charged) to receive (the princes) from the four quarters of the land, they were all docilely submissive. Being sent to the great plains at the foot of the mountains, notwithstanding the tempests of wind, thunder, and rain, he did not go astray.
2(Being charged) to receive (the princes) from the four quarters of the land, they were all docilely submissive. Being sent to the great plains at the foot of the mountains, notwithstanding the tempests of wind, thunder, and rain, he did not go astray. The Ti said, ‘Come, you Shun. I have consulted you on (all) affairs, and examined your words, and found that they can be carried into practice ;—(now) for three years. Do you ascend the seat of the Tt.’ Shun wished to decline in favour of some one more virtuous, and not to consent to be (Y4o’s) successor. On the first day of the first month, (however), he received (Y4o’s) retirement (from his duties) in the temple of the Accomplished Ancestor®.* 3. He examined the pearl-adorned turning sphere, 1 If Shun be taken as an epithet, it will mean ‘the Benevolent and Sage.’ * Khung-hwé4, the name of Shun according to the Han scholars, may mean ‘the Glorious (Y4o) repeated.’ ®’ The Accomplished Ancestor would be, probably, the individual in some distant time to whom Y4o traced his possession of the throne. BOOK I. THE CANON OF SHUN. 39 with its transverse tube of jade, and reduced to a harmonious system (the movements of) the Seven Directors 1. Thereafter, he sacrificed specially, but with the ordinary forms, to God; sacrificed with reverent purity to the Six Honoured Ones; offered their appropriate sacrifices to the hills and rivers; and extended his worship to the host of spirits *.* He called in (all) the five jade-symbols of rank ; and when the month was over, he gave daily audience to (the President of) the Four Mountains, and all the Pastors, (finally) returning their symbols to. the various princes. In the second month of the year he made a tour of inspection eastwards, as far as Thai-yung *, where he presented a burnt-offering to Heaven, and sacrificed in order to the hills and rivers.* Thereafter he gave audience to the princes of the east. He set in accord their seasons and months, and regulated the days; he made uniform the standard-tubes, with the measures of length and of capacity, and the steelyards ; he regulated the five (classes of) ceremonies, with (the various) articles of introduction,—the five 1 Probably the seven stars of the Great Bear. * Who the Six Honoured Ones were cannot be determined with certainty. An-kwo thought they were, ‘the seasons, cold and heat, the sun, the moon, the stars, and drought,’ that is, certain spirits, supposed to rule over these phenomena and things, and residing probably in different stars. The whole paragraph describes Shun’s exercise of the prerogative of the sovereign, so far as religious worship was concerned. 3 The princes of the various states, whose official chief was the President of the Four Mountains, all ‘shepherds of men.’ ‘ Thai-zung is mount Th4i, in Shan-tung. See note on the President of the Four Mountains, p. 35. 40 THE sHO KING. PART II.
33 The princes of the various states, whose official chief was the President of the Four Mountains, all ‘shepherds of men.’ ‘ Thai-zung is mount Th4i, in Shan-tung. See note on the President of the Four Mountains, p. 35. 40 THE sHO KING. PART II. symbols of jade, the three kinds of silk, the two living (animals) and the one dead one. As to the five instruments of rank, when all was over, he returned them. In the fifth month he made a similar tour southwards, as far as the mountain of the south!, where he observed the same ceremonies as at Thai. In the eighth month he made a tour westwards, as far as the mountain of the west!, where he did as before. In the eleventh month he made a tour northwards, as far as the mountain of the north}, where he observed the same ceremonies as in the west. He (then) returned (to the capital), went to (the temple of) the Cultivated Ancestor *, and sacrificed a single bull.*: In five years there was one tour of inspection, and there were four appearances of the princes at court. They gave a report (of their government) in words, which was clearly tested by their works. They received chariots and robes according to their merits. He instituted the division (of the land) into twelve provinces?, raising altars upon twelve hills in them.* He (also) deepened the rivers. He exhibited (to the people) the statutory punishments, enacting banishment as a mitigation of the five (great) inflictions‘; with the whip to be employed in the magistrates’ courts, the stick to be 1 See note on the President of the Four Mountains, p. 35. * Probably the same as the Accomplished Ancestor on p. 38. 5 As Yu, according to Part III, i, divided the land into nine provinces, this division of it into twelve must have been subsequent to the completion of Yii’s work. See on the Tribute of Yu. ‘ Those five great inflictions were—branding on the forehead ; cutting off the nose; cutting off the feet; castration; and death, inflicted in various ways. BOOK I. THE CANON OF SHUN. 41 employed in schools!, and money to be received for redeemable offences. Inadvertent offences and those which could be ascribed to misfortune were _to be pardoned, but those who transgressed presumptuously and repeatedly were to be punished with death. ‘Let me be reverent! Let me be reverent !’ (he said to himself.) ‘Let compassion rule in punishment !’ He banished the Minister of Works to Y4 island ; confined Hwan-tau on mount Aung; drove (the chief of) San-mido (and his people) into San-wei, and kept them there; and held Khwan a prisoner till death on mount Yii. These four criminals being thus dealt with, all under heaven acknowledged the justice (of Shuf’s administration) *.
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.
Romanised transliteration as printed by the translator, not the original script. This is what we hold.
1The Tt said to them, ‘ Be reverent!’ 1 The Kwei is a small stream in Shan-hsf, which flows into the Ho. PART II. THE. BOOKS OF YU. Book I. THe Canon or Suun. Tue Books of Yii is the name of this Part of the Sh, Yi being the dynastic designation of Shun, as Thang was that of Yao. It does not appear so clearly, however, how it came to be so. Yii must be the name of a state, and is commonly identified with the present district of An-yi, in Kieh K4u, Shan-hsf. Some think that YAo, after marrying his two daughters to Shun, appointed him lord of this state; but in the first mention of him to Y4o in the last Book, he is called Shun of Yi. It is generally said that Shun’s ancestors had been lords of the principality of Yii up to the time of his father, who lost his patrimony and was reduced to the rank of a private man. But after what has been said, in the Introduction, on the Books in the first two Parts of the Shi, it will not be thought surprising that much in the accounts about Y4o and Shun should be open to suspicion. According to Mencius, IV, Part ii, ch. 1, Shun was from the country of the wild tribes on the east. Sze-m4 K/ien makes him to have been descended from Hwang-Ti, in which case he and his wives, the daughters of Y4o, would have had the same ancestor. Nothing more injurious to the fame of Yo and Shun, according to Chinese notions of propriety, could be alleged against them. Shun is the subject of this Canon, as Y4o was of the former. As it now stands, we may divide it into six chapters :—the first, describing Shun’s virtues and gradual advancement; the second, Y4o’s satisfaction with his administration of affairs, and associating of Shun with himself on the throne; the third, the acts of Shun in that position; the fourth, the demise of Yao, and Shun’s accession as sole monarch; the fifth, his choice of ministers and complete organization of his government; and the sixth, his death. 38 THE SHO KING. PART Il. 1. Examining into antiquity, (we find that) the Tit Shun! was styled Aung-hw4?, His character was entirely conformed to (that of) the (former) T1;he was profound, wise, accomplished, and intelligent. He was mild and courteous, and truly sincere. The report of his mysterious virtue was heard on high, and he was appointed to office. 2. (Shun) carefully set forth the beauty of the five cardinal duties, and they came to be (universally) observed. Being appointed to be General Regulator, the affairs of every (official) department were arranged in their proper seasons. (Being charged) to receive (the princes) from the four quarters of the land, they were all docilely submissive. Being sent to the great plains at the foot of the mountains, notwithstanding the tempests of wind, thunder, and rain, he did not go astray.
2(Being charged) to receive (the princes) from the four quarters of the land, they were all docilely submissive. Being sent to the great plains at the foot of the mountains, notwithstanding the tempests of wind, thunder, and rain, he did not go astray. The Ti said, ‘Come, you Shun. I have consulted you on (all) affairs, and examined your words, and found that they can be carried into practice ;—(now) for three years. Do you ascend the seat of the Tt.’ Shun wished to decline in favour of some one more virtuous, and not to consent to be (Y4o’s) successor. On the first day of the first month, (however), he received (Y4o’s) retirement (from his duties) in the temple of the Accomplished Ancestor®.* 3. He examined the pearl-adorned turning sphere, 1 If Shun be taken as an epithet, it will mean ‘the Benevolent and Sage.’ * Khung-hwé4, the name of Shun according to the Han scholars, may mean ‘the Glorious (Y4o) repeated.’ ®’ The Accomplished Ancestor would be, probably, the individual in some distant time to whom Y4o traced his possession of the throne. BOOK I. THE CANON OF SHUN. 39 with its transverse tube of jade, and reduced to a harmonious system (the movements of) the Seven Directors 1. Thereafter, he sacrificed specially, but with the ordinary forms, to God; sacrificed with reverent purity to the Six Honoured Ones; offered their appropriate sacrifices to the hills and rivers; and extended his worship to the host of spirits *.* He called in (all) the five jade-symbols of rank ; and when the month was over, he gave daily audience to (the President of) the Four Mountains, and all the Pastors, (finally) returning their symbols to. the various princes. In the second month of the year he made a tour of inspection eastwards, as far as Thai-yung *, where he presented a burnt-offering to Heaven, and sacrificed in order to the hills and rivers.* Thereafter he gave audience to the princes of the east. He set in accord their seasons and months, and regulated the days; he made uniform the standard-tubes, with the measures of length and of capacity, and the steelyards ; he regulated the five (classes of) ceremonies, with (the various) articles of introduction,—the five 1 Probably the seven stars of the Great Bear. * Who the Six Honoured Ones were cannot be determined with certainty. An-kwo thought they were, ‘the seasons, cold and heat, the sun, the moon, the stars, and drought,’ that is, certain spirits, supposed to rule over these phenomena and things, and residing probably in different stars. The whole paragraph describes Shun’s exercise of the prerogative of the sovereign, so far as religious worship was concerned. 3 The princes of the various states, whose official chief was the President of the Four Mountains, all ‘shepherds of men.’ ‘ Thai-zung is mount Th4i, in Shan-tung. See note on the President of the Four Mountains, p. 35. 40 THE sHO KING. PART II.
33 The princes of the various states, whose official chief was the President of the Four Mountains, all ‘shepherds of men.’ ‘ Thai-zung is mount Th4i, in Shan-tung. See note on the President of the Four Mountains, p. 35. 40 THE sHO KING. PART II. symbols of jade, the three kinds of silk, the two living (animals) and the one dead one. As to the five instruments of rank, when all was over, he returned them. In the fifth month he made a similar tour southwards, as far as the mountain of the south!, where he observed the same ceremonies as at Thai. In the eighth month he made a tour westwards, as far as the mountain of the west!, where he did as before. In the eleventh month he made a tour northwards, as far as the mountain of the north}, where he observed the same ceremonies as in the west. He (then) returned (to the capital), went to (the temple of) the Cultivated Ancestor *, and sacrificed a single bull.*: In five years there was one tour of inspection, and there were four appearances of the princes at court. They gave a report (of their government) in words, which was clearly tested by their works. They received chariots and robes according to their merits. He instituted the division (of the land) into twelve provinces?, raising altars upon twelve hills in them.* He (also) deepened the rivers. He exhibited (to the people) the statutory punishments, enacting banishment as a mitigation of the five (great) inflictions‘; with the whip to be employed in the magistrates’ courts, the stick to be 1 See note on the President of the Four Mountains, p. 35. * Probably the same as the Accomplished Ancestor on p. 38. 5 As Yu, according to Part III, i, divided the land into nine provinces, this division of it into twelve must have been subsequent to the completion of Yii’s work. See on the Tribute of Yu. ‘ Those five great inflictions were—branding on the forehead ; cutting off the nose; cutting off the feet; castration; and death, inflicted in various ways. BOOK I. THE CANON OF SHUN. 41 employed in schools!, and money to be received for redeemable offences. Inadvertent offences and those which could be ascribed to misfortune were _to be pardoned, but those who transgressed presumptuously and repeatedly were to be punished with death. ‘Let me be reverent! Let me be reverent !’ (he said to himself.) ‘Let compassion rule in punishment !’ He banished the Minister of Works to Y4 island ; confined Hwan-tau on mount Aung; drove (the chief of) San-mido (and his people) into San-wei, and kept them there; and held Khwan a prisoner till death on mount Yii. These four criminals being thus dealt with, all under heaven acknowledged the justice (of Shuf’s administration) *.
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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