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1* 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. 5. The son of Heaven occupies the apartment on the right of the A#ing Yang (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 and mutton. The vessels which he uses are slightly carved, (to resemble) the bursting forth (of nature). 6. In this month the son of Heaven presents robes yellow as the young leaves of the mulberry tree to the ancient divine ruler (and his queen)*. 7. Orders are given to the officer in charge of the boats to turn a boat bottom up. Five times he does so, and five times he turns it back again, after which he reports that it is ready for the son of Heaven, who 1 This would probably be the Elaeococca vernicia, or Aleurites cordata. . * This statement, perhaps, arose from seeing quails running about among the mole-hills. The Ahien-lung editors say that the quails fly at night, and in the day keep hidden among the grass ; but they seem to admit the transformation. Professor Douglas explains the error from a want of recognition of the migration of quails. * Callery translates this by:—‘L’empereur offre de la belle jaune de céréales (aux empereurs anciens et modernes qui ]’ont précédé),’ following a different reading for the article offered. The general view is what I have followed. The offering is supposed to have been in connexion with a sacrifice preparatory to the silkworm season. ‘The rearing of silkworms was due, it was supposed, to Hsi-ling, the wife of the Yellow Ti. He is the ‘Ancient Tf’ intended here, I suppose. The name is not to be taken as in the plural. See the Khang-hsf dictionary on the character 240 (39). 264 THE Lf xt. BK. Iv. then gets into it for the first time (this spring). He offers a snouted sturgeon (which he has caught) in the rear apartment of the ancestral temple, and also prays that the wheat may yield its produce?. 8. In this month the influences of life and growth are fully developed; and the warm and genial airs diffuse themselves. The crooked shoots are all put forth, and the buds are unfolded. Things do not admit of being restrained. g. The son of Heaven spreads his goodness abroad, and carries out his kindly promptings. He gives orders to the proper officers to distribute from his granaries and vaults, giving their contents to the poor and friendless, and to relieve the needy and destitute ; and to open his treasuries and storehouses, and to send abroad through all the nation the silks and other articles for presents, thus stimulating the princes of states to encourage the resort to them of famous scholars and show courtesy to men of ability and virtue.
2to. In this month, he charges the superintendents of works, saying, ‘ The rains of the season will be coming down, and the waters beneath will be swelling up. Goin order over the states and visit the towns, inspecting everywhere the low and level grounds. Put the dykes and dams in good repair, clear the ditches and larger channels, and open all paths, allowing no obstruction to exist.’ 1 The five times repeated inspection of the boat does seem rather ridiculous. We must regard the king’s taking to the boat as an encouragement to the fishermen, as his ploughing was to the husbandmen. The long-snouted sturgeon has always been called ‘the royal sturgeon.’ How the praying for a good wheat harvest seems to be connected with this ceremony I do not know. SECT. I. PT. III. THE YUEH LING. 265 11. The nets used in hunting animals and birds, hand nets, archers’ disguises, and injurious baits should not (in this month) issue from (any of) the nine gates}. 12. In this month orders are given to the foresters throughout the country not to allow the cutting down of the mulberry trees and silk-worm oaks. About these the cooing doves clap their wings, and the crested birds light on them*. The trays and baskets with the stands (for the worms and cocoons) are got ready. The queen, after vigil and fasting, goes in person to the eastern fields to work on the mulberry trees. She orders the wives and younger women (of the palace) not to wear their ornamental dresses, and to suspend their woman’s-work, thus stimulating them to attend to their business with the worms. When this has been completed, she apportions the cocoons, weighs out (afterwards) the silk, on which they go to work, to supply the robes for the solstitial and other great religious services, and for use in the ancestral temple. Not one is allowed to be idle. 13. In this month orders are given to the chiefs of works, to charge the workmen of their various departments to inspect the materials in the five storehouses :—those of iron and other metals; of skins 2 ©On each side of the wall of the royal city,’ says LQ Tien (early in the Sung dynasty), ‘ there were three gates.’ Wf Khang says, ‘ The three gates on the south were the chief gates. Generally, such things as are mentioned here might issue from the other gates, but not from these ; but in this month they could not issue from any of the nine.’ Other explanations of ‘the nine gates’ have been attempted. The ‘baits’ (or medicines) were used to attract and to stupefy. 2 Perhaps the hoopoe. 266 THE Li xf. BK. IV.
3The ‘baits’ (or medicines) were used to attract and to stupefy. 2 Perhaps the hoopoe. 266 THE Li xf. BK. IV. and hides and sinews; of horn and ivory; of feathers, arrows and wood (for bows); and of grease, glue, cinnabar, and varnish. (They are to see) that all these things be good. The workmen then labour at their several tasks. (The chiefs) inspect their work, and daily give them their orders. They must not produce anything contrary to what the time requires; nor can they practise a licentious ingenuity, which would dissipate the minds of their superiors. 14. In the end of this month a fortunate day is chosen for a grand concert of music. The son of Heaven, at the head of the three ducal ministers, the nine high ministers, the feudal princes (at court), and his great officers, goes in person to witness it. 15. In this month they collect the large, heavy bulls, and fiery stallions, and send them forth to the females in the pasture grounds. They number and make a list of the animals fit for victims, with the foals and calves. 16. Orders are given for the ceremonies against pestilence throughout the city; at the nine gates (also) animals are torn in pieces in deprecation (of the danger) :—to secure the full development of the (healthy) airs of the spring? 17. If,in this last month of spring, the governmental 1 Compare Analects X, 10, 2. The ceremonies there referred to were the same as those here, carried out in the villages and, indeed, throughout the land. Diseases prevailing were attributed by superstition to the action of evil spirits, and ridiculous measures adopted to drive them away. Confucius and others, even the government itself, gave countenance to these, seeing, perhaps, that in connexion with them the natural causes of disease would be in a measure dispelled. SECT. 1. PT. II. THE YUEH LING. 267 proceedings proper to winter were observed, cold airs would constantly be prevailing; all plants and trees would decay; and in the states there would be great terrors. If those proper to summer were observed, many of the people would suffer from pestilential diseases; the seasonable rains would not fall; and no produce would be derived from the mountains and heights. If those proper to autumn were observed, the sky would be full of moisture and gloom ; exces- _ sive rains would fall early ; and warlike movements would be everywhere arising. 268 THE Lf xt. BK. IV. Section II. Parr I. 1. In the first month of summer, the sun is in Pi; the constellation culminating at dusk being Y1, and that culminating at dawn Wa-nii’. 2. Its days are ping and ting®. . Its divine ruler is Yen T1, and the (attending) spirit is Kd-yung®, 4. Its creatures are the feathered. 5. Its musical note is A7ih, and its pitch-tube is the Kung Lit. 6. Its number is seven’. Its taste is acrid. Its smell is that of things burning.
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.
1* 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. 5. The son of Heaven occupies the apartment on the right of the A#ing Yang (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 and mutton. The vessels which he uses are slightly carved, (to resemble) the bursting forth (of nature). 6. In this month the son of Heaven presents robes yellow as the young leaves of the mulberry tree to the ancient divine ruler (and his queen)*. 7. Orders are given to the officer in charge of the boats to turn a boat bottom up. Five times he does so, and five times he turns it back again, after which he reports that it is ready for the son of Heaven, who 1 This would probably be the Elaeococca vernicia, or Aleurites cordata. . * This statement, perhaps, arose from seeing quails running about among the mole-hills. The Ahien-lung editors say that the quails fly at night, and in the day keep hidden among the grass ; but they seem to admit the transformation. Professor Douglas explains the error from a want of recognition of the migration of quails. * Callery translates this by:—‘L’empereur offre de la belle jaune de céréales (aux empereurs anciens et modernes qui ]’ont précédé),’ following a different reading for the article offered. The general view is what I have followed. The offering is supposed to have been in connexion with a sacrifice preparatory to the silkworm season. ‘The rearing of silkworms was due, it was supposed, to Hsi-ling, the wife of the Yellow Ti. He is the ‘Ancient Tf’ intended here, I suppose. The name is not to be taken as in the plural. See the Khang-hsf dictionary on the character 240 (39). 264 THE Lf xt. BK. Iv. then gets into it for the first time (this spring). He offers a snouted sturgeon (which he has caught) in the rear apartment of the ancestral temple, and also prays that the wheat may yield its produce?. 8. In this month the influences of life and growth are fully developed; and the warm and genial airs diffuse themselves. The crooked shoots are all put forth, and the buds are unfolded. Things do not admit of being restrained. g. The son of Heaven spreads his goodness abroad, and carries out his kindly promptings. He gives orders to the proper officers to distribute from his granaries and vaults, giving their contents to the poor and friendless, and to relieve the needy and destitute ; and to open his treasuries and storehouses, and to send abroad through all the nation the silks and other articles for presents, thus stimulating the princes of states to encourage the resort to them of famous scholars and show courtesy to men of ability and virtue.
2to. In this month, he charges the superintendents of works, saying, ‘ The rains of the season will be coming down, and the waters beneath will be swelling up. Goin order over the states and visit the towns, inspecting everywhere the low and level grounds. Put the dykes and dams in good repair, clear the ditches and larger channels, and open all paths, allowing no obstruction to exist.’ 1 The five times repeated inspection of the boat does seem rather ridiculous. We must regard the king’s taking to the boat as an encouragement to the fishermen, as his ploughing was to the husbandmen. The long-snouted sturgeon has always been called ‘the royal sturgeon.’ How the praying for a good wheat harvest seems to be connected with this ceremony I do not know. SECT. I. PT. III. THE YUEH LING. 265 11. The nets used in hunting animals and birds, hand nets, archers’ disguises, and injurious baits should not (in this month) issue from (any of) the nine gates}. 12. In this month orders are given to the foresters throughout the country not to allow the cutting down of the mulberry trees and silk-worm oaks. About these the cooing doves clap their wings, and the crested birds light on them*. The trays and baskets with the stands (for the worms and cocoons) are got ready. The queen, after vigil and fasting, goes in person to the eastern fields to work on the mulberry trees. She orders the wives and younger women (of the palace) not to wear their ornamental dresses, and to suspend their woman’s-work, thus stimulating them to attend to their business with the worms. When this has been completed, she apportions the cocoons, weighs out (afterwards) the silk, on which they go to work, to supply the robes for the solstitial and other great religious services, and for use in the ancestral temple. Not one is allowed to be idle. 13. In this month orders are given to the chiefs of works, to charge the workmen of their various departments to inspect the materials in the five storehouses :—those of iron and other metals; of skins 2 ©On each side of the wall of the royal city,’ says LQ Tien (early in the Sung dynasty), ‘ there were three gates.’ Wf Khang says, ‘ The three gates on the south were the chief gates. Generally, such things as are mentioned here might issue from the other gates, but not from these ; but in this month they could not issue from any of the nine.’ Other explanations of ‘the nine gates’ have been attempted. The ‘baits’ (or medicines) were used to attract and to stupefy. 2 Perhaps the hoopoe. 266 THE Li xf. BK. IV.
3The ‘baits’ (or medicines) were used to attract and to stupefy. 2 Perhaps the hoopoe. 266 THE Li xf. BK. IV. and hides and sinews; of horn and ivory; of feathers, arrows and wood (for bows); and of grease, glue, cinnabar, and varnish. (They are to see) that all these things be good. The workmen then labour at their several tasks. (The chiefs) inspect their work, and daily give them their orders. They must not produce anything contrary to what the time requires; nor can they practise a licentious ingenuity, which would dissipate the minds of their superiors. 14. In the end of this month a fortunate day is chosen for a grand concert of music. The son of Heaven, at the head of the three ducal ministers, the nine high ministers, the feudal princes (at court), and his great officers, goes in person to witness it. 15. In this month they collect the large, heavy bulls, and fiery stallions, and send them forth to the females in the pasture grounds. They number and make a list of the animals fit for victims, with the foals and calves. 16. Orders are given for the ceremonies against pestilence throughout the city; at the nine gates (also) animals are torn in pieces in deprecation (of the danger) :—to secure the full development of the (healthy) airs of the spring? 17. If,in this last month of spring, the governmental 1 Compare Analects X, 10, 2. The ceremonies there referred to were the same as those here, carried out in the villages and, indeed, throughout the land. Diseases prevailing were attributed by superstition to the action of evil spirits, and ridiculous measures adopted to drive them away. Confucius and others, even the government itself, gave countenance to these, seeing, perhaps, that in connexion with them the natural causes of disease would be in a measure dispelled. SECT. 1. PT. II. THE YUEH LING. 267 proceedings proper to winter were observed, cold airs would constantly be prevailing; all plants and trees would decay; and in the states there would be great terrors. If those proper to summer were observed, many of the people would suffer from pestilential diseases; the seasonable rains would not fall; and no produce would be derived from the mountains and heights. If those proper to autumn were observed, the sky would be full of moisture and gloom ; exces- _ sive rains would fall early ; and warlike movements would be everywhere arising. 268 THE Lf xt. BK. IV. Section II. Parr I. 1. In the first month of summer, the sun is in Pi; the constellation culminating at dusk being Y1, and that culminating at dawn Wa-nii’. 2. Its days are ping and ting®. . Its divine ruler is Yen T1, and the (attending) spirit is Kd-yung®, 4. Its creatures are the feathered. 5. Its musical note is A7ih, and its pitch-tube is the Kung Lit. 6. Its number is seven’. Its taste is acrid. Its smell is that of things burning.
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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