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1to disseminate (lessons of) virtue, and harmonise the governmental orders, to give effect to the expressions of his satisfaction and bestow his favours; down to the millions of the people. Those expressions and gifts thereupon proceed, every one in proper (degree and direction). 12. He also orders the Grand recorder to guard the statutes and maintain the laws, and (especially) to observe the motions in the heavens of the sun and moon, and of the zodiacal stars in which the conjunctions of these bodies take place, so that there should be no error as to where they rest and what they pass over ; that there should be no failure in the record of all these things, according to the regular practice of early times. 13. In this month the son of Heaven on the first (hsin)® day prays to God for a good year; and afterwards, the day of the first conjunction of the sun and moon having been chosen, with the handle and share of the plough in the carriage, placed between the man-at-arms who is its third occupant and the driver, he conducts his three ducal ministers, his nine high ministers, the feudal princes and his Great officers, all with their own hands to plough the field of of five planetary Tis is held to be heresy, and certainly does not come from the five King. 1 This rewarding, it is understood, was that mentioned in patagraph 15, p. 217. 8 These assistants are supposed to be the ‘three ducal ministers.” ® This took and takes place on the first hsin (3) day, the first day commencing with that character, the eighth of the ‘ stems.’ SECT. I. PT. 1. THE YUEH LING. 255 God. The son of Heaven turns up three furrows, each of the ducal ministers five, and the other ministers and feudal princes nine’. When they return, he takes in his hand a cup in the great chamber, all the others being in attendance on him and the Great officers, and says, ‘Drink this cup of comfort after your toil.’ 14. In this month the vapours of heaven descend and those of the earth ascend. Heaven and earth are in harmonious co-operation. All plants bud and grow. 15. The king gives orders to set forward the business of husbandry. The inspectors of the fields are ordered to reside in the lands having an eastward exposure, and (see that) all repair the marches and divisions (of the ground), and mark out clearly the paths and ditches. They must skilfully survey the mounds and rising grounds, the slopes and defiles, the plains and marshes, determining what the different lands are suitable for, and where the different grains will grow best. They must thus instruct and lead on the people, themselves also engaging in the tasks. The business of the fields being thus ordered, the guiding line is first put in requisition, and the husbandry is carried on without error?. 16. In this month orders are given to the chief director of Music to enter the college, and practise the dances (with his pupils)*.
2The business of the fields being thus ordered, the guiding line is first put in requisition, and the husbandry is carried on without error?. 16. In this month orders are given to the chief director of Music to enter the college, and practise the dances (with his pupils)*. 1 The services described here are still performed, in substance, by the emperors of China and their representatives throughout the provinces. The field is generally called ‘the imperial field,’ through error. The grain produced by it was employed in the sacrifices or religious services of which God (Shang Tt) was the object, and hence arose the denomination. * Compare vol. iii, pp. 320-322, 370-373: ’ «The chief director of Music’ would be the same as the Ta 256 THE Li i. . BK. IV. 17. The canons of sacrifice are examined and set forth, and orders are given to sacrifice to the hills and forests, the streams and meres, care being taken not to use any female victims. 18. Prohibitions are issued against cutting down trees. 19. Nests should not be thrown down ; unformed insects should not be killed, nor creatures in the womb, nor very young creatures, nor birds just taking to the wing, nor fawns, nor should eggs be destroyed. 20. No congregating of multitudes should be allowed, and no setting about the rearing of fortifications and walls?. 21. Skeletons should be covered up, and bones with the flesh attached to them buried. 22. In this month no warlike operations should be undertaken ; the undertaking of such is sure to be followed by calamities from Heaven. The not undertaking warlike operations means that they should not commence on our side’. Sze Yo of the X4u Li, Book XXII. There were dances of war (wan), and dances of peace (w4n); but neither is in the text. But either term may include both classes of dancing. Callery translates by ‘faire des évolutions.’ 1 Not to destroy the life unborn. At ‘the great sacrifices,’ those to Heaven and Earth, and in the ancestral temple, only male victims were used, females being deemed ‘unclean.’ The host of minor sacrifices is intended here. * Such operations would interfere with the labours of husbandry. ’ War is specially out of time in the genial season of spring ; but a state, when attacked, must, and might, defend itself even then. SECT. I. PT. II. THE YUEH LING. 257 23. No change in the ways of heaven is allowed ; nor any extinction of the principles of earth ; nor any confounding of the bonds of men’.
3SECT. I. PT. II. THE YUEH LING. 257 23. No change in the ways of heaven is allowed ; nor any extinction of the principles of earth ; nor any confounding of the bonds of men’. 24. If in the first month of spring the governmental proceedings proper to summer were carried out, the rain would fall unseasonably, plants and trees would decay prematurely, and the states would be kept in continual fear. If the proceedings proper to autumn were carried out, there would be great pestilence among the people; boisterous winds would work their violence; rain would descend in torrents ; orach, fescue, darnel, and southernwood would grow up together. If the proceedings proper to winter were carried out, pools of water would produce their destructive effects, snow and frost would prove very injurious, and the first sown seeds would not enter the ground?. Part II. 1. In the second month of spring, the sun is in Khwei, the star culminating at dusk being H4, and that culminating at dawn Kien-hsing®. 2. Its days are &i4 and yi. Its divine ruler is Thai H4o, the attending spirit is Kau-mang. Its * Compare what is said in the fifth Appendix to the Yt King, paragraph 4 (vol. xvi, pp. 423, 424). The next paragraph is the sequel of this. ? Such government would be comparable to the inversion of the seasons in the course of nature. Compare Proverbs xxvi. 1. ’ The constellation Khwei contains 8 (Mirac), 8, ¢, ¢, 4, », 7 of Andromeda, and some stars of Pisces. Hf or Ht Xih contains 3, «, 9, x, of Canis Major; and 8, w, of Argo; and Xien-hsing v, & m, p, o, of Sagittarius’ head. [27] s 258 THE Li xf. BK. Iv. . creatures are the scaly. Its musical note is Kio, and its pitch-tube is the Kid Xung?. 3. Its number is eight; its taste is sour; its smell is rank. Its sacrifice is that at the door, and of the parts of the victim the spleen has the foremost place. 4. The rain begins to fall*. The peach tree begins to blossom. The oriole sings. Hawks are transformed into doves’. 5. The son of Heaven occupies the Khing Yang Grand Fane’; rides in the carriage with the phoenix bells, drawn by the azure dragon-(horses), and bearing the green flag. He is dressed in the green robes, and wears the azure gems, He eats wheat 1 Kia Kung, ‘the double tube,’ is the second tube of the six lower accords. * Literally, ‘There commence the rains.’ ‘The rains’ is now the name of the second of the twenty-four terms (February 15 to March 4).
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.
1to disseminate (lessons of) virtue, and harmonise the governmental orders, to give effect to the expressions of his satisfaction and bestow his favours; down to the millions of the people. Those expressions and gifts thereupon proceed, every one in proper (degree and direction). 12. He also orders the Grand recorder to guard the statutes and maintain the laws, and (especially) to observe the motions in the heavens of the sun and moon, and of the zodiacal stars in which the conjunctions of these bodies take place, so that there should be no error as to where they rest and what they pass over ; that there should be no failure in the record of all these things, according to the regular practice of early times. 13. In this month the son of Heaven on the first (hsin)® day prays to God for a good year; and afterwards, the day of the first conjunction of the sun and moon having been chosen, with the handle and share of the plough in the carriage, placed between the man-at-arms who is its third occupant and the driver, he conducts his three ducal ministers, his nine high ministers, the feudal princes and his Great officers, all with their own hands to plough the field of of five planetary Tis is held to be heresy, and certainly does not come from the five King. 1 This rewarding, it is understood, was that mentioned in patagraph 15, p. 217. 8 These assistants are supposed to be the ‘three ducal ministers.” ® This took and takes place on the first hsin (3) day, the first day commencing with that character, the eighth of the ‘ stems.’ SECT. I. PT. 1. THE YUEH LING. 255 God. The son of Heaven turns up three furrows, each of the ducal ministers five, and the other ministers and feudal princes nine’. When they return, he takes in his hand a cup in the great chamber, all the others being in attendance on him and the Great officers, and says, ‘Drink this cup of comfort after your toil.’ 14. In this month the vapours of heaven descend and those of the earth ascend. Heaven and earth are in harmonious co-operation. All plants bud and grow. 15. The king gives orders to set forward the business of husbandry. The inspectors of the fields are ordered to reside in the lands having an eastward exposure, and (see that) all repair the marches and divisions (of the ground), and mark out clearly the paths and ditches. They must skilfully survey the mounds and rising grounds, the slopes and defiles, the plains and marshes, determining what the different lands are suitable for, and where the different grains will grow best. They must thus instruct and lead on the people, themselves also engaging in the tasks. The business of the fields being thus ordered, the guiding line is first put in requisition, and the husbandry is carried on without error?. 16. In this month orders are given to the chief director of Music to enter the college, and practise the dances (with his pupils)*.
2The business of the fields being thus ordered, the guiding line is first put in requisition, and the husbandry is carried on without error?. 16. In this month orders are given to the chief director of Music to enter the college, and practise the dances (with his pupils)*. 1 The services described here are still performed, in substance, by the emperors of China and their representatives throughout the provinces. The field is generally called ‘the imperial field,’ through error. The grain produced by it was employed in the sacrifices or religious services of which God (Shang Tt) was the object, and hence arose the denomination. * Compare vol. iii, pp. 320-322, 370-373: ’ «The chief director of Music’ would be the same as the Ta 256 THE Li i. . BK. IV. 17. The canons of sacrifice are examined and set forth, and orders are given to sacrifice to the hills and forests, the streams and meres, care being taken not to use any female victims. 18. Prohibitions are issued against cutting down trees. 19. Nests should not be thrown down ; unformed insects should not be killed, nor creatures in the womb, nor very young creatures, nor birds just taking to the wing, nor fawns, nor should eggs be destroyed. 20. No congregating of multitudes should be allowed, and no setting about the rearing of fortifications and walls?. 21. Skeletons should be covered up, and bones with the flesh attached to them buried. 22. In this month no warlike operations should be undertaken ; the undertaking of such is sure to be followed by calamities from Heaven. The not undertaking warlike operations means that they should not commence on our side’. Sze Yo of the X4u Li, Book XXII. There were dances of war (wan), and dances of peace (w4n); but neither is in the text. But either term may include both classes of dancing. Callery translates by ‘faire des évolutions.’ 1 Not to destroy the life unborn. At ‘the great sacrifices,’ those to Heaven and Earth, and in the ancestral temple, only male victims were used, females being deemed ‘unclean.’ The host of minor sacrifices is intended here. * Such operations would interfere with the labours of husbandry. ’ War is specially out of time in the genial season of spring ; but a state, when attacked, must, and might, defend itself even then. SECT. I. PT. II. THE YUEH LING. 257 23. No change in the ways of heaven is allowed ; nor any extinction of the principles of earth ; nor any confounding of the bonds of men’.
3SECT. I. PT. II. THE YUEH LING. 257 23. No change in the ways of heaven is allowed ; nor any extinction of the principles of earth ; nor any confounding of the bonds of men’. 24. If in the first month of spring the governmental proceedings proper to summer were carried out, the rain would fall unseasonably, plants and trees would decay prematurely, and the states would be kept in continual fear. If the proceedings proper to autumn were carried out, there would be great pestilence among the people; boisterous winds would work their violence; rain would descend in torrents ; orach, fescue, darnel, and southernwood would grow up together. If the proceedings proper to winter were carried out, pools of water would produce their destructive effects, snow and frost would prove very injurious, and the first sown seeds would not enter the ground?. Part II. 1. In the second month of spring, the sun is in Khwei, the star culminating at dusk being H4, and that culminating at dawn Kien-hsing®. 2. Its days are &i4 and yi. Its divine ruler is Thai H4o, the attending spirit is Kau-mang. Its * Compare what is said in the fifth Appendix to the Yt King, paragraph 4 (vol. xvi, pp. 423, 424). The next paragraph is the sequel of this. ? Such government would be comparable to the inversion of the seasons in the course of nature. Compare Proverbs xxvi. 1. ’ The constellation Khwei contains 8 (Mirac), 8, ¢, ¢, 4, », 7 of Andromeda, and some stars of Pisces. Hf or Ht Xih contains 3, «, 9, x, of Canis Major; and 8, w, of Argo; and Xien-hsing v, & m, p, o, of Sagittarius’ head. [27] s 258 THE Li xf. BK. Iv. . creatures are the scaly. Its musical note is Kio, and its pitch-tube is the Kid Xung?. 3. Its number is eight; its taste is sour; its smell is rank. Its sacrifice is that at the door, and of the parts of the victim the spleen has the foremost place. 4. The rain begins to fall*. The peach tree begins to blossom. The oriole sings. Hawks are transformed into doves’. 5. The son of Heaven occupies the Khing Yang Grand Fane’; rides in the carriage with the phoenix bells, drawn by the azure dragon-(horses), and bearing the green flag. He is dressed in the green robes, and wears the azure gems, He eats wheat 1 Kia Kung, ‘the double tube,’ is the second tube of the six lower accords. * Literally, ‘There commence the rains.’ ‘The rains’ is now the name of the second of the twenty-four terms (February 15 to March 4).
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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