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Romanised transliteration as printed by the translator, not the original script. This is what we hold.
1He 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). 5 This is the converse of the phenomenon in page 277, paragraph 3. Both are absurd, but the natural rendering in the translation is the view of Kang, Ying-ta, Kao YQ (the glossarist of Hwai-nan 3ze), and the Xhien-lung editors. Seeking for the actual phenomenon which gave rise to the superstitious fancy, Professor Douglas renders the corresponding sentence of the Hsia Kang by ‘hawks become crested hawks,’ and thinks that the notice is based on the appearance of the hawks when ‘the rearing instinct becomes excessive, and birds of prey become excited.’ It may be so, but this meaning cannot be brought out of the text, and should not be presented as that of the writer of the Book. “ See the note on p. 252. The three apartments (two of them subdivided) on the east of the Hall of Distinction, all received the general designation of King Yang, ‘the Green and Bright,’ as characteristic of the season of Spring. It was now the second month of that season, and the king takes his place in the principal or central apartment, ‘ the Grand Fane.’ SECT. I. PT. II. THE YUEH LING. 259 and mutton. The vessels which he uses are slightly carved, (to resemble) the bursting forth (of nature). 6. In this month, they keep both the young buds and those more advanced from being disturbed ; they nourish both the young animals and those not fully grown; they especially watch over all orphans. 7. The fortunate day is chosen, and orders are given to the people to sacrifice at their altars to the spirits of the ground. 8. Orders are given to the (proper) officers to examine the prisons; to remove fetters and handcuffs; that there shall be no unregulated infliction of the bastinado; and that efforts shall be made to stop criminal actions and litigations. 9. In this month the swallow makes its appearance*, On the day of its arrival, the son of Heaven sacrifices to the first match-maker with a bull, a ram, and a boar. He goes to do so in person, with his queen and help-mates, attended by his nine ladies of honour. Peculiar courtesy is shown to those whom he has (lately) approached. Bow-cases have been brought, and a bow and arrows are given to each before (the altar of) the first match-maker. 10. In this month day and night are equal®. ‘Thunder utters its voice, and the lightning begins 1 The sacrifice here was not that to Earth, which it was competent to the king alone to offer; nor to the spirits of the territories of the different states. It was offered by the people generally to the spirits presiding over their fields. ® The swallow is ‘the dark-coloured bird,’ of the third sacrificial ode of the Shang dynasty; see vol. iii, p. 307. ’ The vernal equinox. $2 260 THE Lf xt. BK. IV.
2It was offered by the people generally to the spirits presiding over their fields. ® The swallow is ‘the dark-coloured bird,’ of the third sacrificial ode of the Shang dynasty; see vol. iii, p. 307. ’ The vernal equinox. $2 260 THE Lf xt. BK. IV. to be seen. Insects in their burrows are all in motion, opening their doors and beginning to come forth. 11. Three days before the thunder, a bell with a wooden tongue is sounded, to give notice to all the people. ‘The thunder,’ it is said, ‘is about to utter its voice. If any of you be not careful of your behaviour, you shall bring forth children incomplete ; there are sure to be evils and calamities.’ 12, At the equinox they make uniform the measures of length and capacity; the weight of 30 catties, the steelyard, and the weight of 120 catties. They correct the peck and bushel, the steelyard weights and the bushel-scraper?. 13. In this month few of the husbandmen remain in their houses inthe towns. They repair, however, their gates and doors, both of wood and wattles; and put their sleeping apartments and temples all in good repair. No great labours, which would interfere with the work of husbandry, should be undertaken’. 14. In this month (the fishermen) should not let the streams and meres run dry, nor drain off all the water from the dams and ponds, (in order to catch all the fish), nor should (the hunters) fire the hills and forests. ' We are not told how they knew this third day. * A catty (Ain) at present = 14]b. avoirdupois. The é/tin, or 30 catties, = 4olbs, av.; and the shih, or 120 catties, = 160 lbs. av.; see Williams’ Commercial Guide, pp. 278-231. The t4u (or peck, in use in the market) contains 10 catties of dry, cleaned rice, and measures 316 cubic jhun, or inches; and the hf, or bushel, = 5t&u. The bushel-scraper is a piece of wood or roller used to level the top of the hf. But see Williams, pp. 281, 282. * Compare vol. iii, pp. 368-37 3. SECT. I. PT. IL. THE YUEH LING. 261 15. The son of Heaven at this time offers a lamb (to the ruler of cold), and opens the (reservoirs of) ice. Before (using it generally), they offer some in their principal apartment or in the ancestral temple’. 16. On the first ting day * orders are given to the chief director of Music to exhibit the civil dances and unfold the offerings of vegetables * (to the inventor of music). The son of Heaven, at the head of the three ducal ministers, his nine high ministers, the feudal princes (at court), and his Great officers, goes in person to see the ceremony. On the second ting* day orders are given again to the same chief to enter the college, and practise music (with his pupils). 17. In this month at the (smaller) services of supplication* they do not use victims. They use offerings of jade, square and round, and instead (of victims) skins and pieces of silk. 18. If in this second month of spring the governmental proceedings proper to autumn were observed,
317. In this month at the (smaller) services of supplication* they do not use victims. They use offerings of jade, square and round, and instead (of victims) skins and pieces of silk. 18. If in this second month of spring the governmental proceedings proper to autumn were observed, ' Compare vol. iii, page 445. Where there was an ancestral temple, the ice would be presented there. The people who had no such temple might present it before the spirit-tablets of their deceased in their principal apartment, where these were set up. * The fourth and fourteenth cycle days. 8 The offerings were small and scanty in this month, fruits not yet being ready for such a use. Cress and tussel-pondweed are mentioned among the vegetables which were presented on th's occasion. “ The received text here means not ‘services of supplication,’ but sacrifices. That which I have adopted is found in 3h4i Yung, and is approved by the Khien-lung editors. It is a necessary alteration, for in paragraphs 9 and 15 we have instances of victims used this month at sacrifices. The change in the text is not great in Chinese, the character fy for jill. 262 THE Lf xf. BK. IV there would be great floods in the states; cold airs would be constantly coming ; and plundering attacks would be frequent. If those of winter were observed, the warm and genial airs would be insufficient; the wheat would not ripen; and raids and strifes would be rife among the people. If those of summer were observed, there would be great droughts among the people ; the hot airs would come too early ; and caterpillars and other insects would harm the grain}. Part III. 1. In the last month of spring, the sun is in Wei, the constellation culminating at dusk being K4Zihhsing, and that culminating at dawn Khien-nid* 2. Its days are £i4 and yt. Its divine ruler is Thai H4o, and the attending spirit is Kau-mang. Its creatures are the scaly. Its musical note is the Kio, and its pitch-tube is the KQ Hsien’. Its number is eight. Its taste is sour. Its smell is rank. 3. Its sacrifice is that at the door, and of the parts of the victim the spleen has the foremost place. 1 Before this and the corresponding paragraphs in the Parts of the Book that follow, we must always understand paragraph 23 of the last Part, of which these concluding paragraphs are supposed to be the natural sequence. * Wei is the seventeenth of the twenty-eight Chinese constellations (longitude in 1800, 44° 8’ 17”) corresponding to Musca borealis. AAih-hsing is understood to be a (Alphard) of Hydra, and small stars near it. AAien-niQ corresponds to certain stars ‘(¢, pw, v) in the neck of Aquila. * Kft Hsien, ‘the lady bathes,’ is the third of the tubes that give the six upper musical accords. SECT. I. PT. III. THE YUEH LING. 263 4. The Elaeococca begins to flower’. Moles are transformed into quails*. Rainbows begin to appear. Duckweed begins to grow.
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.
1He 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). 5 This is the converse of the phenomenon in page 277, paragraph 3. Both are absurd, but the natural rendering in the translation is the view of Kang, Ying-ta, Kao YQ (the glossarist of Hwai-nan 3ze), and the Xhien-lung editors. Seeking for the actual phenomenon which gave rise to the superstitious fancy, Professor Douglas renders the corresponding sentence of the Hsia Kang by ‘hawks become crested hawks,’ and thinks that the notice is based on the appearance of the hawks when ‘the rearing instinct becomes excessive, and birds of prey become excited.’ It may be so, but this meaning cannot be brought out of the text, and should not be presented as that of the writer of the Book. “ See the note on p. 252. The three apartments (two of them subdivided) on the east of the Hall of Distinction, all received the general designation of King Yang, ‘the Green and Bright,’ as characteristic of the season of Spring. It was now the second month of that season, and the king takes his place in the principal or central apartment, ‘ the Grand Fane.’ SECT. I. PT. II. THE YUEH LING. 259 and mutton. The vessels which he uses are slightly carved, (to resemble) the bursting forth (of nature). 6. In this month, they keep both the young buds and those more advanced from being disturbed ; they nourish both the young animals and those not fully grown; they especially watch over all orphans. 7. The fortunate day is chosen, and orders are given to the people to sacrifice at their altars to the spirits of the ground. 8. Orders are given to the (proper) officers to examine the prisons; to remove fetters and handcuffs; that there shall be no unregulated infliction of the bastinado; and that efforts shall be made to stop criminal actions and litigations. 9. In this month the swallow makes its appearance*, On the day of its arrival, the son of Heaven sacrifices to the first match-maker with a bull, a ram, and a boar. He goes to do so in person, with his queen and help-mates, attended by his nine ladies of honour. Peculiar courtesy is shown to those whom he has (lately) approached. Bow-cases have been brought, and a bow and arrows are given to each before (the altar of) the first match-maker. 10. In this month day and night are equal®. ‘Thunder utters its voice, and the lightning begins 1 The sacrifice here was not that to Earth, which it was competent to the king alone to offer; nor to the spirits of the territories of the different states. It was offered by the people generally to the spirits presiding over their fields. ® The swallow is ‘the dark-coloured bird,’ of the third sacrificial ode of the Shang dynasty; see vol. iii, p. 307. ’ The vernal equinox. $2 260 THE Lf xt. BK. IV.
2It was offered by the people generally to the spirits presiding over their fields. ® The swallow is ‘the dark-coloured bird,’ of the third sacrificial ode of the Shang dynasty; see vol. iii, p. 307. ’ The vernal equinox. $2 260 THE Lf xt. BK. IV. to be seen. Insects in their burrows are all in motion, opening their doors and beginning to come forth. 11. Three days before the thunder, a bell with a wooden tongue is sounded, to give notice to all the people. ‘The thunder,’ it is said, ‘is about to utter its voice. If any of you be not careful of your behaviour, you shall bring forth children incomplete ; there are sure to be evils and calamities.’ 12, At the equinox they make uniform the measures of length and capacity; the weight of 30 catties, the steelyard, and the weight of 120 catties. They correct the peck and bushel, the steelyard weights and the bushel-scraper?. 13. In this month few of the husbandmen remain in their houses inthe towns. They repair, however, their gates and doors, both of wood and wattles; and put their sleeping apartments and temples all in good repair. No great labours, which would interfere with the work of husbandry, should be undertaken’. 14. In this month (the fishermen) should not let the streams and meres run dry, nor drain off all the water from the dams and ponds, (in order to catch all the fish), nor should (the hunters) fire the hills and forests. ' We are not told how they knew this third day. * A catty (Ain) at present = 14]b. avoirdupois. The é/tin, or 30 catties, = 4olbs, av.; and the shih, or 120 catties, = 160 lbs. av.; see Williams’ Commercial Guide, pp. 278-231. The t4u (or peck, in use in the market) contains 10 catties of dry, cleaned rice, and measures 316 cubic jhun, or inches; and the hf, or bushel, = 5t&u. The bushel-scraper is a piece of wood or roller used to level the top of the hf. But see Williams, pp. 281, 282. * Compare vol. iii, pp. 368-37 3. SECT. I. PT. IL. THE YUEH LING. 261 15. The son of Heaven at this time offers a lamb (to the ruler of cold), and opens the (reservoirs of) ice. Before (using it generally), they offer some in their principal apartment or in the ancestral temple’. 16. On the first ting day * orders are given to the chief director of Music to exhibit the civil dances and unfold the offerings of vegetables * (to the inventor of music). The son of Heaven, at the head of the three ducal ministers, his nine high ministers, the feudal princes (at court), and his Great officers, goes in person to see the ceremony. On the second ting* day orders are given again to the same chief to enter the college, and practise music (with his pupils). 17. In this month at the (smaller) services of supplication* they do not use victims. They use offerings of jade, square and round, and instead (of victims) skins and pieces of silk. 18. If in this second month of spring the governmental proceedings proper to autumn were observed,
317. In this month at the (smaller) services of supplication* they do not use victims. They use offerings of jade, square and round, and instead (of victims) skins and pieces of silk. 18. If in this second month of spring the governmental proceedings proper to autumn were observed, ' Compare vol. iii, page 445. Where there was an ancestral temple, the ice would be presented there. The people who had no such temple might present it before the spirit-tablets of their deceased in their principal apartment, where these were set up. * The fourth and fourteenth cycle days. 8 The offerings were small and scanty in this month, fruits not yet being ready for such a use. Cress and tussel-pondweed are mentioned among the vegetables which were presented on th's occasion. “ The received text here means not ‘services of supplication,’ but sacrifices. That which I have adopted is found in 3h4i Yung, and is approved by the Khien-lung editors. It is a necessary alteration, for in paragraphs 9 and 15 we have instances of victims used this month at sacrifices. The change in the text is not great in Chinese, the character fy for jill. 262 THE Lf xf. BK. IV there would be great floods in the states; cold airs would be constantly coming ; and plundering attacks would be frequent. If those of winter were observed, the warm and genial airs would be insufficient; the wheat would not ripen; and raids and strifes would be rife among the people. If those of summer were observed, there would be great droughts among the people ; the hot airs would come too early ; and caterpillars and other insects would harm the grain}. Part III. 1. In the last month of spring, the sun is in Wei, the constellation culminating at dusk being K4Zihhsing, and that culminating at dawn Khien-nid* 2. Its days are £i4 and yt. Its divine ruler is Thai H4o, and the attending spirit is Kau-mang. Its creatures are the scaly. Its musical note is the Kio, and its pitch-tube is the KQ Hsien’. Its number is eight. Its taste is sour. Its smell is rank. 3. Its sacrifice is that at the door, and of the parts of the victim the spleen has the foremost place. 1 Before this and the corresponding paragraphs in the Parts of the Book that follow, we must always understand paragraph 23 of the last Part, of which these concluding paragraphs are supposed to be the natural sequence. * Wei is the seventeenth of the twenty-eight Chinese constellations (longitude in 1800, 44° 8’ 17”) corresponding to Musca borealis. AAih-hsing is understood to be a (Alphard) of Hydra, and small stars near it. AAien-niQ corresponds to certain stars ‘(¢, pw, v) in the neck of Aquila. * Kft Hsien, ‘the lady bathes,’ is the third of the tubes that give the six upper musical accords. SECT. I. PT. III. THE YUEH LING. 263 4. The Elaeococca begins to flower’. Moles are transformed into quails*. Rainbows begin to appear. Duckweed begins to grow.
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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