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12. 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. 1 Pf is the name for the Hyades, or, more exactly, of six stars in Hyades, with » and » of Taurus; it is the nineteenth of the Chinese constellations. Yt is crater. W-ni is not so well identified. Williams says that it is ‘a star near the middle of Capricorn,’ but others say in Hercules. The R Y& makes it the same as Hsii-nii (4A 4x). Probably it was a star in the constellation Nii of Aquarius. * The third and fourth stem characters of the cycle. > Yen Ti (‘the blazing Ti’) is the dynastic designation of Shan N&ng, generally placed next to Ff-hsf in Chinese chronology, and whose date cannot be assigned later than the thirty-first century p.c. Af-yung in one account is placed before Ff-hsf; in a second, as one of the ministers of Hwang Tf; and in a third, as a son of Khwan-hsii (B.c. 2510-2433). He was ‘the Director of Fire,’ and had the presidency of summer. 4 Kih is the fourth of the notes of the Chinese scale, and Kung Lii (‘the middle Spine’) the third of the tubes that give the six lower accords. 5 The number of fire is 2, which + 5, that of earth, = 7. SECT. 1. PT. I. THE YUEH LING. 269 7. Its sacrifice is that at the furnace'; and of the parts of the victim the lungs have the foremost place. 8. The green frogs croak. Earth-worms come forth. The royal melons grow*. The sow-thistle is in seed, 9. The son of Heaven occupies the apartment on the left of the Ming Thang (Grand Fane); rides in the vermilion carriage, drawn by the red horses with black tails, and bearing the red flag. He is dressed in the red robes, and wears the carnation jade. He eats beans and fowls. The vessels which he uses are tall, (to resemble) the large growth (of things). 10. In this month there takes place the inauguration of summer. Three days before this ceremony, the Grand recorder informs the son of Heaven, saying, ‘On such-and-such a day is the inauguration of summer. The energies of the season are most fully seen in fire.’ On this the son of Heaven devotes himself to self-purification; and on the day, at the head of the three ducal ministers, the nine high ministers, and his Great officers, he proceeds to meet the summer in the southern suburbs. On their return, rewards are distributed. He grants to the feudal princes (an increase of) territory. Congratulations and gifts proceed, and all are joyful and pleased. 11. Orders are also given to the chief master of * It was natural that they should sacrifice here in the summer. ‘ The lungs’ is the fourth of the five viscera, and ‘ metal’ the fourth of the five elements; but ‘ fire subdues metal.’ This is supposed to account for the prominence given to the lungs in this sacrifice.
2‘ The lungs’ is the fourth of the five viscera, and ‘ metal’ the fourth of the five elements; but ‘ fire subdues metal.’ This is supposed to account for the prominence given to the lungs in this sacrifice. * According to Williams this is the ‘common cucumber.’ 270 THE Lf gi. BK. Iv. music to teach the practice of ceremonies and music together. 12. Orders are given to the Grand Peace-maintainer! to recommend men of eminence, allow the worthy and good to have free course and bring forward the tall and large. His conferring of rank and regulation of emolument must be in accordance with the position (of the individual). 13. In this month what is long should be encouraged to grow longer, and what is high to grow higher. There should be no injuring or overthrowing of anything ; no commencing of works in earth ; no sending forth of great multitudes (on expeditions); no cutting down of large trees. 14. In this month the son of Heaven begins to wear thin dolichos cloth. 15. Orders are given to the foresters throughout the country to go forth over the fields and plains, and, for the son of Heaven, to encourage the husbandmen, and stimulate them to work, and not let the season slip by unimproved. Orders are (also) given to the minister of Instruction to travel in order through the districts to the borders, ‘charging the husbandmen to work vigorously, and not to rest in the towns. 16. In this month they chase away wild animals to prevent them from doing harm to any of the 1 The ‘Grand Peace-maintainer’ (FX Ff) was a title under the Kin dynasty, and instituted by it, of the Minister of War. The functions of the latter, as described in the last Book, page 234, are in harmony with what is said here. The occurrence of the name bears out the attributing of this Book to Lii Pfi-wei. SECT. IT. PT. I. THE YUEH LING. 271 (growing) grain; but they should not have a great hunting. 17. When the husbandmen present (the first-fruits of) their wheat, the son of Heaven tastes it along with some pork, first offering a portion in the apartment behind (the hall of the) ancestral temple. 18. In this month they collect and store up the various medicinal herbs. Delicate herbs (now) die; it is the harvest time (even) of the wheat. They decide cases for which the punishments are light; they make short work of small crimes, and liberate those who are in prison for slight offences?. 19. When the work with the silk-worms is over, the queen presents her cocoons ; and the tithe-tax of cocoons generally is collected, according to the number of mulberry trees; for noble and mean, for old and young there is one law. The object is with such cocoons to provide materials for the robes to be used at the sacrifices in the suburbs and in the ancestral temple. 20. In this month the son of Heaven (entertains his ministers and princes) with strong drink and with (much) observance of ceremony and with music?.
3The object is with such cocoons to provide materials for the robes to be used at the sacrifices in the suburbs and in the ancestral temple. 20. In this month the son of Heaven (entertains his ministers and princes) with strong drink and with (much) observance of ceremony and with music?. 1 There does not appear to be any connexion between the first sentence of this paragraph and the remainder of it. The medicinal herbs are collected while all their vigour is in them. For the things in the second sentence the ‘summer heats’ make a premature harvest; and this seems to lead to the third topic,—the saving those charged with slight offences from the effects of that heat in confinement. * The Khien-lung editors have a note here, which is worth quoting, to the effect that as the great solstitial sacrifices and the . Seasonal sacrifices of the ancestral temple do not appear in this Book, the drinking here was at court entertainments. 272 THE Li zt. BK. Iv. 21. If,in this first month of summer, the proceedings proper to autumn were observed, pitiless rains would be frequent ; the five esculent plants! would not grow large, and in all the borders people would have to enter the places of shelter. If those proper to winter were observed, all plants and trees would wither early, and afterwards there would be great floods, destroying city and suburban walls. If those proper to spring were observed, there would be the calamity of locusts, violent winds would come, and plants in flower would not go on to seed. Part II. 1. In the second month of summer the sun is in the eastern 3ing, the constellation culminating at dusk being Khang, and that culminating at dawn Wei?. 2. Its days are ping and ting. Its divine ruler is Yen Tt, and the (attending) spirit is KAt-yung. Its creatures are the feathered. Its musical note is ih, and its pitch-tube is Sui Pin®. 3. Its number is seven. Its taste is acrid. Its smell is that of things burning. Its sacrifice is that at the furnace; and of the parts of the victim the lungs have the foremost place. 4. The (period of) slighter heat arrives; the praying mantis is produced ; the shrike begins to give its notes; the mocking-bird ceases to sing *. 1 Hemp or flax, millet, rice, bearded grain, and pulse. * Zing comprehends y, «, ¢, A, #, », Gemini; Khang, ¢, «, A, », p, Virgo; and Wei corresponds to a, Aquarius, and «, 6, Pegasus. 5 Sui Pin, ‘the flourishing Guest,’ is the fourth of the tubes that give the six upper musical accords. * This is here ‘ the inverted Tongue.’ The Khang-hsf dictionary SECT. Il. PT. II. THE YUEH LING. 273 5. The son of Heaven occupies the Ming Thang Grand Fane; rides in the vermilion carriage, drawn by the red horses with black tails, and bearing the red flag. He is dressed in the red robes, and wears the carnation gems. He eats beans and fowls. The vessels which he uses are tall, (to resemble) the large growth (of things).
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.
12. 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. 1 Pf is the name for the Hyades, or, more exactly, of six stars in Hyades, with » and » of Taurus; it is the nineteenth of the Chinese constellations. Yt is crater. W-ni is not so well identified. Williams says that it is ‘a star near the middle of Capricorn,’ but others say in Hercules. The R Y& makes it the same as Hsii-nii (4A 4x). Probably it was a star in the constellation Nii of Aquarius. * The third and fourth stem characters of the cycle. > Yen Ti (‘the blazing Ti’) is the dynastic designation of Shan N&ng, generally placed next to Ff-hsf in Chinese chronology, and whose date cannot be assigned later than the thirty-first century p.c. Af-yung in one account is placed before Ff-hsf; in a second, as one of the ministers of Hwang Tf; and in a third, as a son of Khwan-hsii (B.c. 2510-2433). He was ‘the Director of Fire,’ and had the presidency of summer. 4 Kih is the fourth of the notes of the Chinese scale, and Kung Lii (‘the middle Spine’) the third of the tubes that give the six lower accords. 5 The number of fire is 2, which + 5, that of earth, = 7. SECT. 1. PT. I. THE YUEH LING. 269 7. Its sacrifice is that at the furnace'; and of the parts of the victim the lungs have the foremost place. 8. The green frogs croak. Earth-worms come forth. The royal melons grow*. The sow-thistle is in seed, 9. The son of Heaven occupies the apartment on the left of the Ming Thang (Grand Fane); rides in the vermilion carriage, drawn by the red horses with black tails, and bearing the red flag. He is dressed in the red robes, and wears the carnation jade. He eats beans and fowls. The vessels which he uses are tall, (to resemble) the large growth (of things). 10. In this month there takes place the inauguration of summer. Three days before this ceremony, the Grand recorder informs the son of Heaven, saying, ‘On such-and-such a day is the inauguration of summer. The energies of the season are most fully seen in fire.’ On this the son of Heaven devotes himself to self-purification; and on the day, at the head of the three ducal ministers, the nine high ministers, and his Great officers, he proceeds to meet the summer in the southern suburbs. On their return, rewards are distributed. He grants to the feudal princes (an increase of) territory. Congratulations and gifts proceed, and all are joyful and pleased. 11. Orders are also given to the chief master of * It was natural that they should sacrifice here in the summer. ‘ The lungs’ is the fourth of the five viscera, and ‘ metal’ the fourth of the five elements; but ‘ fire subdues metal.’ This is supposed to account for the prominence given to the lungs in this sacrifice.
2‘ The lungs’ is the fourth of the five viscera, and ‘ metal’ the fourth of the five elements; but ‘ fire subdues metal.’ This is supposed to account for the prominence given to the lungs in this sacrifice. * According to Williams this is the ‘common cucumber.’ 270 THE Lf gi. BK. Iv. music to teach the practice of ceremonies and music together. 12. Orders are given to the Grand Peace-maintainer! to recommend men of eminence, allow the worthy and good to have free course and bring forward the tall and large. His conferring of rank and regulation of emolument must be in accordance with the position (of the individual). 13. In this month what is long should be encouraged to grow longer, and what is high to grow higher. There should be no injuring or overthrowing of anything ; no commencing of works in earth ; no sending forth of great multitudes (on expeditions); no cutting down of large trees. 14. In this month the son of Heaven begins to wear thin dolichos cloth. 15. Orders are given to the foresters throughout the country to go forth over the fields and plains, and, for the son of Heaven, to encourage the husbandmen, and stimulate them to work, and not let the season slip by unimproved. Orders are (also) given to the minister of Instruction to travel in order through the districts to the borders, ‘charging the husbandmen to work vigorously, and not to rest in the towns. 16. In this month they chase away wild animals to prevent them from doing harm to any of the 1 The ‘Grand Peace-maintainer’ (FX Ff) was a title under the Kin dynasty, and instituted by it, of the Minister of War. The functions of the latter, as described in the last Book, page 234, are in harmony with what is said here. The occurrence of the name bears out the attributing of this Book to Lii Pfi-wei. SECT. IT. PT. I. THE YUEH LING. 271 (growing) grain; but they should not have a great hunting. 17. When the husbandmen present (the first-fruits of) their wheat, the son of Heaven tastes it along with some pork, first offering a portion in the apartment behind (the hall of the) ancestral temple. 18. In this month they collect and store up the various medicinal herbs. Delicate herbs (now) die; it is the harvest time (even) of the wheat. They decide cases for which the punishments are light; they make short work of small crimes, and liberate those who are in prison for slight offences?. 19. When the work with the silk-worms is over, the queen presents her cocoons ; and the tithe-tax of cocoons generally is collected, according to the number of mulberry trees; for noble and mean, for old and young there is one law. The object is with such cocoons to provide materials for the robes to be used at the sacrifices in the suburbs and in the ancestral temple. 20. In this month the son of Heaven (entertains his ministers and princes) with strong drink and with (much) observance of ceremony and with music?.
3The object is with such cocoons to provide materials for the robes to be used at the sacrifices in the suburbs and in the ancestral temple. 20. In this month the son of Heaven (entertains his ministers and princes) with strong drink and with (much) observance of ceremony and with music?. 1 There does not appear to be any connexion between the first sentence of this paragraph and the remainder of it. The medicinal herbs are collected while all their vigour is in them. For the things in the second sentence the ‘summer heats’ make a premature harvest; and this seems to lead to the third topic,—the saving those charged with slight offences from the effects of that heat in confinement. * The Khien-lung editors have a note here, which is worth quoting, to the effect that as the great solstitial sacrifices and the . Seasonal sacrifices of the ancestral temple do not appear in this Book, the drinking here was at court entertainments. 272 THE Li zt. BK. Iv. 21. If,in this first month of summer, the proceedings proper to autumn were observed, pitiless rains would be frequent ; the five esculent plants! would not grow large, and in all the borders people would have to enter the places of shelter. If those proper to winter were observed, all plants and trees would wither early, and afterwards there would be great floods, destroying city and suburban walls. If those proper to spring were observed, there would be the calamity of locusts, violent winds would come, and plants in flower would not go on to seed. Part II. 1. In the second month of summer the sun is in the eastern 3ing, the constellation culminating at dusk being Khang, and that culminating at dawn Wei?. 2. Its days are ping and ting. Its divine ruler is Yen Tt, and the (attending) spirit is KAt-yung. Its creatures are the feathered. Its musical note is ih, and its pitch-tube is Sui Pin®. 3. Its number is seven. Its taste is acrid. Its smell is that of things burning. Its sacrifice is that at the furnace; and of the parts of the victim the lungs have the foremost place. 4. The (period of) slighter heat arrives; the praying mantis is produced ; the shrike begins to give its notes; the mocking-bird ceases to sing *. 1 Hemp or flax, millet, rice, bearded grain, and pulse. * Zing comprehends y, «, ¢, A, #, », Gemini; Khang, ¢, «, A, », p, Virgo; and Wei corresponds to a, Aquarius, and «, 6, Pegasus. 5 Sui Pin, ‘the flourishing Guest,’ is the fourth of the tubes that give the six upper musical accords. * This is here ‘ the inverted Tongue.’ The Khang-hsf dictionary SECT. Il. PT. II. THE YUEH LING. 273 5. The son of Heaven occupies the Ming Thang Grand Fane; rides in the vermilion carriage, drawn by the red horses with black tails, and bearing the red flag. He is dressed in the red robes, and wears the carnation gems. He eats beans and fowls. The vessels which he uses are tall, (to resemble) the large growth (of things).
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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