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1382 THE SHIH KING. DECADE I. ment, And in accordance with it smote the great Shang. The troops of Yin-shang Were collected like a forest, And marshalled in the wilderness of Ma. We rose (to the crisis); ‘God is with you,’ (said Shang-f0 to the king), ‘Have no doubts in your heart }’ The wilderness of Mf spread out extensive ; Bright shone the chariots of sandal; The teams of bays, black-maned and white-bellied, galloped along; The Grand-Master Shang-f Was like an eagle on the wing, Assisting king Wa, Who at one onset smote the great Shang. That morning’s encounter was followed by a clear, bright (day). Ope 8. THE MIEN. SMALL BEGINNINGS AND SUBSEQUENT GROWTH OF THE HOUSE OF XAU IN KAU. ITS REMOVAL FROM PIN UNDER THAN-F(, WITH ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT IN KAU, 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 BY KING WAN. ‘The ancient duke Than-fi’ was the grandfather of king W&n, and was canonized by the duke of Kau as ‘king Thai.’ As mentioned in a note on p. 316, he was the first of his family to settle in K4u, removing there from Pin, the site of their earlier settlement, ‘the country about the XAii and the XAi,’ In long trains ever increasing grow the gourds *, When (our) people first sprang, From the country about the A4Aii and the A&t’, The ancient duke 1 See the account of the battle of Mf in the third Book of the fifth Part of the ShQ. Shang-f was one of Wis principal leaders and counsellors, his ‘Grand-Master Shang-fQ’ in the next stanza. * As a gourd grows and extends, with a vast development of its tendrils and leaves, so had the House of Au increased. * These were two rivers in the territory of Pin, which name still ODE 3. THE MAJOR ODES OF THE KINGDOM. 383 Than-ff Made for them kiln-like huts and caves, Ere they had yet any houses}. The ancient duke Than-fa Came in the morning, galloping his horses, Along the banks of the western rivers, To the foot of mount AAt?2; And there he and the lady Xiang* Came and together looked out for a site. . The plain of AK4u looked beautiful and rich, With its violets, and sowthistles (sweet) as dumplings. There he began by consulting (with his followers); There he singed the tortoise-shell, (and divined). The responses were there to stay and then; And they proceeded there to build +. He encouraged the people, and settled them; Here on the left, there on the right. He divided the ground, and subdivided it; He dug the ditches; he defined the acres. From the east to the west, There was nothing which he did not take in hand 5. remains in the small department of Pin Xu, in Shen-hsf. The K/hii flows into the Lo, and the XA? into the Wei. 1 According to this ode then, up to the time of Than-fa, the Kau people had only had the dwellings here described; but this is not easily reconciled with other accounts, or even with other stanzas of this piece.
2The K/hii flows into the Lo, and the XA? into the Wei. 1 According to this ode then, up to the time of Than-fa, the Kau people had only had the dwellings here described; but this is not easily reconciled with other accounts, or even with other stanzas of this piece. 3 See a graphic account of the circumstances in which this migration took place, in the fifteenth chapter of the second Part of the first Book of Mencius, very much to the honour of the ancient duke. ® This lady is known as Théi-Aiang, the worthy predecessor of Thai-san. ‘ This stanza has reference to the choice—by council and divination—of a site for what should be the chief town of the new settlement. * This stanza describes the general arrangements for the occupancy and cultivation of the plain of X4u, and the distribution of the people over it, 384 THE SHIH KING. DECADE I. He called his Superintendent of Works; He called his Minister of Instruction; And charged them with the rearing of the houses. With the line they made everything straight; They bound the frame-boards tight, so that they should rise regularly: Uprose the ancestral temple in its solemn grandeur ?. Crowds brought the earth in baskets; They threw it with shouts into the frames; They beat it with responsive blows. They pared the walls repeatedly, till they sounded strong. Five thousand cubits of them arose together, So that the roll of the great drums did not overpower (the noise of the builders)*. They reared the outer gate (of the palace), Which rose in lofty state. They set up the gate of audience, Which rose severe and exact. They reared the great altar to the spirits of the land, From which all great movements should proceed *. 1 This stanza describes the preparations and processes for erecting the buildings of the new city. The whole took place under the direction of two officers, in whom we have the germ probably of the Six Heads of the Boards or Departments, whose functions are described in the Sh and the Official Book of A4u. The materials of the buildings were earth and lime pounded together in frames, as is still to be seen in many parts of the country. The first great building taken in hand was the ancestral temple. Than-fQ would make a home for the spirits of his fathers, before he made one for himself. However imperfectly directed, the religious feeling asserted the supremacy which it ought to possess. * The bustle and order of the building all over the city is here graphically set forth. * Than-ff was now at leisure to build the palace for himself, which appears to have been not a very large building, though the Chinese names of its gates are those belonging to the two which ODE3. THE MAJOR ODES OF THE KINGDOM. 385 Thus though he could not prevent the rage of his foes!, He did not let fall his own fame. The oaks and the buckthorns were (gradually) thinned, And roads for travellers were opened. The hordes of the Khw&n disappeared, Startled and panting.
3THE MAJOR ODES OF THE KINGDOM. 385 Thus though he could not prevent the rage of his foes!, He did not let fall his own fame. The oaks and the buckthorns were (gradually) thinned, And roads for travellers were opened. The hordes of the Khw&n disappeared, Startled and panting. (The chiefs of) Yi and Zui? were brought to an agreement By king WAn’s stimulating their natural virtue. Then, I may say, some came to him, previously not knowing him; Some, drawn the last by the first; Some, drawn by his rapid successes; And some by his defence (of the weak) from insult. were peculiar to the palaces of the kings of Au in the subsequent times of the dynasty. Outside the palace were the altars appropriate to the spirits of the four quarters of the land, the ‘great’ or royal altar being peculiar to the kings, though the one built by Than-ff is here so named. All great undertakings, and such as required the co-operation of all the people, were preceded by a solemn sacrifice at this altar. 1 Referring to Than-f(’s relations with the wild hordes, described by Mencius, and which obliged him to leave Pin. As the new settlement in Au grew, they did not dare to trouble it. 2 The poet passes on here to the time of king Wan. The story of the chiefs of Yti and Zui (two states on the east of the Ho) is this:— They had a quarrel about a strip of territory, to which each of them laid claim. Going to lay their dispute before the lord of Kau, as soon as they entered his territory, they saw the ploughers readily yielding the furrow, and travellers yielding the path, while men and women avoided one another on the road, and old people had no burdens to carry. At his court, they beheld the officers of each inferior grade giving place to those above them. They became ashamed of their own quarrel, agreed to let the disputed ground be an open territory, and withdrew without presuming to appear before Wan. When this affair was noised abroad, more than forty states, it is said, tendered their submission to K4u. (1) cc 386 . THE SHIH KING. DECADE I. Ope 4, Stanzas 1 anD 2. Tue Yf Puo. IN PRAISE OF KING WAN, 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’, Elegant and dignified was our prince and king ; On the left and the right they hastened to him. Elegant and dignified was our prince and king ; On his left and his right they bore their half- mace (libation-cups)?:—They bore them with solemn gravity, As beseemed such eminent officers. Ope 6. Tue Han LO. IN PRAISE OF THE VIRTUE OF KING WAN, BLESSED BY HIS ANCESTORS, AND RAISED TO THE HIGHEST DIGNITY WITHOUT SEEKING OF HIS OWN. Look at the foot of the Han’, How abundantly grow the hazel and arrow-thorn*. Easy and selfpossessed was our prince, In his pursuit of dignity (still) easy and self-possessed. Massive is that libation-cup of jade, With the
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Romanised transliteration as printed by the translator, not the original script. This is what we hold.
1382 THE SHIH KING. DECADE I. ment, And in accordance with it smote the great Shang. The troops of Yin-shang Were collected like a forest, And marshalled in the wilderness of Ma. We rose (to the crisis); ‘God is with you,’ (said Shang-f0 to the king), ‘Have no doubts in your heart }’ The wilderness of Mf spread out extensive ; Bright shone the chariots of sandal; The teams of bays, black-maned and white-bellied, galloped along; The Grand-Master Shang-f Was like an eagle on the wing, Assisting king Wa, Who at one onset smote the great Shang. That morning’s encounter was followed by a clear, bright (day). Ope 8. THE MIEN. SMALL BEGINNINGS AND SUBSEQUENT GROWTH OF THE HOUSE OF XAU IN KAU. ITS REMOVAL FROM PIN UNDER THAN-F(, WITH ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT IN KAU, 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 BY KING WAN. ‘The ancient duke Than-fi’ was the grandfather of king W&n, and was canonized by the duke of Kau as ‘king Thai.’ As mentioned in a note on p. 316, he was the first of his family to settle in K4u, removing there from Pin, the site of their earlier settlement, ‘the country about the XAii and the XAi,’ In long trains ever increasing grow the gourds *, When (our) people first sprang, From the country about the A4Aii and the A&t’, The ancient duke 1 See the account of the battle of Mf in the third Book of the fifth Part of the ShQ. Shang-f was one of Wis principal leaders and counsellors, his ‘Grand-Master Shang-fQ’ in the next stanza. * As a gourd grows and extends, with a vast development of its tendrils and leaves, so had the House of Au increased. * These were two rivers in the territory of Pin, which name still ODE 3. THE MAJOR ODES OF THE KINGDOM. 383 Than-ff Made for them kiln-like huts and caves, Ere they had yet any houses}. The ancient duke Than-fa Came in the morning, galloping his horses, Along the banks of the western rivers, To the foot of mount AAt?2; And there he and the lady Xiang* Came and together looked out for a site. . The plain of AK4u looked beautiful and rich, With its violets, and sowthistles (sweet) as dumplings. There he began by consulting (with his followers); There he singed the tortoise-shell, (and divined). The responses were there to stay and then; And they proceeded there to build +. He encouraged the people, and settled them; Here on the left, there on the right. He divided the ground, and subdivided it; He dug the ditches; he defined the acres. From the east to the west, There was nothing which he did not take in hand 5. remains in the small department of Pin Xu, in Shen-hsf. The K/hii flows into the Lo, and the XA? into the Wei. 1 According to this ode then, up to the time of Than-fa, the Kau people had only had the dwellings here described; but this is not easily reconciled with other accounts, or even with other stanzas of this piece.
2The K/hii flows into the Lo, and the XA? into the Wei. 1 According to this ode then, up to the time of Than-fa, the Kau people had only had the dwellings here described; but this is not easily reconciled with other accounts, or even with other stanzas of this piece. 3 See a graphic account of the circumstances in which this migration took place, in the fifteenth chapter of the second Part of the first Book of Mencius, very much to the honour of the ancient duke. ® This lady is known as Théi-Aiang, the worthy predecessor of Thai-san. ‘ This stanza has reference to the choice—by council and divination—of a site for what should be the chief town of the new settlement. * This stanza describes the general arrangements for the occupancy and cultivation of the plain of X4u, and the distribution of the people over it, 384 THE SHIH KING. DECADE I. He called his Superintendent of Works; He called his Minister of Instruction; And charged them with the rearing of the houses. With the line they made everything straight; They bound the frame-boards tight, so that they should rise regularly: Uprose the ancestral temple in its solemn grandeur ?. Crowds brought the earth in baskets; They threw it with shouts into the frames; They beat it with responsive blows. They pared the walls repeatedly, till they sounded strong. Five thousand cubits of them arose together, So that the roll of the great drums did not overpower (the noise of the builders)*. They reared the outer gate (of the palace), Which rose in lofty state. They set up the gate of audience, Which rose severe and exact. They reared the great altar to the spirits of the land, From which all great movements should proceed *. 1 This stanza describes the preparations and processes for erecting the buildings of the new city. The whole took place under the direction of two officers, in whom we have the germ probably of the Six Heads of the Boards or Departments, whose functions are described in the Sh and the Official Book of A4u. The materials of the buildings were earth and lime pounded together in frames, as is still to be seen in many parts of the country. The first great building taken in hand was the ancestral temple. Than-fQ would make a home for the spirits of his fathers, before he made one for himself. However imperfectly directed, the religious feeling asserted the supremacy which it ought to possess. * The bustle and order of the building all over the city is here graphically set forth. * Than-ff was now at leisure to build the palace for himself, which appears to have been not a very large building, though the Chinese names of its gates are those belonging to the two which ODE3. THE MAJOR ODES OF THE KINGDOM. 385 Thus though he could not prevent the rage of his foes!, He did not let fall his own fame. The oaks and the buckthorns were (gradually) thinned, And roads for travellers were opened. The hordes of the Khw&n disappeared, Startled and panting.
3THE MAJOR ODES OF THE KINGDOM. 385 Thus though he could not prevent the rage of his foes!, He did not let fall his own fame. The oaks and the buckthorns were (gradually) thinned, And roads for travellers were opened. The hordes of the Khw&n disappeared, Startled and panting. (The chiefs of) Yi and Zui? were brought to an agreement By king WAn’s stimulating their natural virtue. Then, I may say, some came to him, previously not knowing him; Some, drawn the last by the first; Some, drawn by his rapid successes; And some by his defence (of the weak) from insult. were peculiar to the palaces of the kings of Au in the subsequent times of the dynasty. Outside the palace were the altars appropriate to the spirits of the four quarters of the land, the ‘great’ or royal altar being peculiar to the kings, though the one built by Than-ff is here so named. All great undertakings, and such as required the co-operation of all the people, were preceded by a solemn sacrifice at this altar. 1 Referring to Than-f(’s relations with the wild hordes, described by Mencius, and which obliged him to leave Pin. As the new settlement in Au grew, they did not dare to trouble it. 2 The poet passes on here to the time of king Wan. The story of the chiefs of Yti and Zui (two states on the east of the Ho) is this:— They had a quarrel about a strip of territory, to which each of them laid claim. Going to lay their dispute before the lord of Kau, as soon as they entered his territory, they saw the ploughers readily yielding the furrow, and travellers yielding the path, while men and women avoided one another on the road, and old people had no burdens to carry. At his court, they beheld the officers of each inferior grade giving place to those above them. They became ashamed of their own quarrel, agreed to let the disputed ground be an open territory, and withdrew without presuming to appear before Wan. When this affair was noised abroad, more than forty states, it is said, tendered their submission to K4u. (1) cc 386 . THE SHIH KING. DECADE I. Ope 4, Stanzas 1 anD 2. Tue Yf Puo. IN PRAISE OF KING WAN, 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’, Elegant and dignified was our prince and king ; On the left and the right they hastened to him. Elegant and dignified was our prince and king ; On his left and his right they bore their half- mace (libation-cups)?:—They bore them with solemn gravity, As beseemed such eminent officers. Ope 6. Tue Han LO. IN PRAISE OF THE VIRTUE OF KING WAN, BLESSED BY HIS ANCESTORS, AND RAISED TO THE HIGHEST DIGNITY WITHOUT SEEKING OF HIS OWN. Look at the foot of the Han’, How abundantly grow the hazel and arrow-thorn*. Easy and selfpossessed was our prince, In his pursuit of dignity (still) easy and self-possessed. Massive is that libation-cup of jade, With the
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