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1Some read thien (Hf) for sze (J), ‘Inspectors of the fields,’ SECT. IV. PT. III. THE YUEH LING. 309 other high ministers and his Great officers, revises the statutes for the states, and discusses the proceedings of the different seasons; to be prepared with what is suitable for the ensuing year. 16. Orders are given to the Grand recorder to make a list of the princes of the states according to the positions severally assigned to them', and of the victims required from them to supply the offerings for the worship of God dwelling in the great heaven, and at the altars of (the spirits of) the land and grain. Orders were also given to the states ruled by princes of the royal surname to supply the fodder and grain for the (victims used in the worship of the) ancestra] temple. Orders are given, moreover, to the chief minister to make a list of (the appanages of) the various high ministers and Great officers, with the amount of the land assigned to the common people, and assess them with the victims which they are to contribute to furnish for the sacrifices to (the spirits presiding over) the hills, forests, and famous streams. All the people under the sky, within the nine provinces, must, without exception, do their utmost to contribute to the sacrifices: —to God dwelling in the great heaven; at the altars of the (spirits of the) land and grain; in the ancestral temple and the apartment at the back of it; and of the hills, forests, and famous streams. 17. If, in the last month of winter, the governmental proceedings proper to autumn were observed, the white dews would descend too early; the shelly crea- 1 As being of the same surname as the royal house, or otherwise; the degree of their rank; the size of their territory. 310 THE Lf xt. BK. IV. tures would appear in monstrous forms!; throughout the four borders people would have to seek their places of shelter. If those proper to spring were observed, women with child and young children would suffer many disasters; throughout the states there would be many cases of obstinate disease ; fate would appear to be adverse. If those proper to summer were observed, floods would work their ruin in the states; the seasonable snow would not fall, the ice would melt, and the cold disappear. 1 This is the proper force of the characters. Wang Tho interprets them as meaning that the creatures would bore through dykes and boats, so that the former would let the water through and the latter sink. BOOK V. THE QUESTIONS OF 3ANG-3ZE}. Section I. I. 3ang-sze asked, ‘If a ruler dies and a son and heir is born (immediately after), what course should be adopted ?’
2BOOK V. THE QUESTIONS OF 3ANG-3ZE}. Section I. I. 3ang-sze asked, ‘If a ruler dies and a son and heir is born (immediately after), what course should be adopted ?’ Confucius said, ‘The high nobles’, Great officers and (other) officers, following the chief (minister), who takes charge of the government for the time, (should collect) at the south of the western steps, with their faces towards the north®, (Then) the Grand officer of prayer, in his court robes and cap, bearing in his hands a bundle of rolls of silk, will go up to the topmost step, and (there), without ascending the hall, will order the wailing to cease. Mournfully clearing his voice three times‘, he will make announcement (to the spirit of the deceased ruler), saying, “ The son of such and such a lady has been born. I venture to announce the fact.” He will then go up, and place the silks on a stool on the east of the body in the coffin’, wail, and descend. All the relatives of the deceased who are there (at the mourning), the high nobles, the Great and other 1 See the introduction, pp. 21, 22. 2 These were also ministers; see paragraph 4, page 213. 3 The usual place was at the eastern steps. * To call the attention of the spirit of the deceased. 5 The rolls of silk were, I suppose, the introductory present proper on an interview with a superior. 312 THE Li xf. BE. V. officers, (with the women) in the apartments, all will wail, but without the leaping. When this burst of sorrow is over, they will return to their (proper) places, and proceed forthwith to set forth the mourning offerings to the dead. The minor minister will ascend, and take away the bundle of silks. 2. ‘On the third day, all the relatives, high nobles, Great and other officers, should take their places as before, with their faces to the north. The Grand minister, the Grand master of the ancestral temple, and the Grand officer of prayer, should all be in their court-robes and caps. The master for the child? will carry the child in his arms on a mat of sackcloth. The officer of prayer will precede, followed by the child, and the minister and master of the temple will come after. Thus they will enter the door (of the apartment where the coffin is), when the wailers will cease. The child has been brought up by the western steps’, and is held in front of the coffin with his face to the north, while the officer of prayer stands at the south-east corner of it. Mournfully clearing his voice three times, he will say, “ So and So, the son of such and such a lady, and we, his servants, who follow him, presume to appear before you.” The boy is (then made) to do obeisance, with his forehead on the ground, and to wail. The officer of prayer, the minister, the officer of the temple, all the relatives, the high nobles, with the Great and other officers, 1 And bury it in the court between the two flights of stairs.
3The officer of prayer, the minister, the officer of the temple, all the relatives, the high nobles, with the Great and other officers, 1 And bury it in the court between the two flights of stairs. 2 Thus early is it made to appear that the child is put under a master; P. Zottoli translates the name by ‘secundus magister.’ 5 The child had been brought by the master from the women’s apartments, and carried to the court, that he might thus go up again to the hall by these steps. SECT. I. THE QUESTIONS OF 3ANG-3ZE. 313 will wail and leap’, leaping three times with each burst of grief. (Those who had gone up to the hall then) descend, and go back to their proper places on the east ; where all bare the left arm and shoulder. The son (in the arms of his bearer is made) to leap, and (the women) in the apartments also leap. Thrice they will do so, leaping three times each time. (The bearer for the son) will cover up his sackcloth ®, walk with a staff, (ascend and) set forth the offerings by the dead, and then quit the scene. The Grand minister will charge the officer of prayer and the recorder to announce the name all round, at the five altars of the house, and at those (to the spirits) of the hills and streams %,’ 3. 3ang-yze asked, ‘If the son and heir have been born after the burial (of the) ruler, what course should be followed ?’ Confucius said, ‘The Grand minister and the Grand master of the ancestral temple will follow the Grand officer of prayer, and announce the fact before the spirit tablet (of the deceased ruler)‘. Three months after they will give the name in the same place, and announce it all round’, and also at the altars to (the 1 A most expressive indication of the sorrow proper to the occasion. * The breast and shoulder of the child had also been bared. * The ‘ five household altars’ are.those at which the sacrifices were offered in the palace or house, often mentioned in the last Book. * The characters of the text, ‘in the shrine temple of the father,’ denote the special shrine or smaller temple assigned to the father in the great ancestral temple ; but that was not assigned till after all the rites of mourning were over. The characters here denote the spirit tablet which had been before the burial set up over the coffin, and which was now removed to a rear apartment. P. Zottoli simply has ‘ coram tabell4.’ ® At the courts of the sovereign and of the other princes. 314 THE Lf xf. BK. Vs spirits of) the land and grain, in the ancestral temple, and (at the altars of) the hills and streams.’
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.
1Some read thien (Hf) for sze (J), ‘Inspectors of the fields,’ SECT. IV. PT. III. THE YUEH LING. 309 other high ministers and his Great officers, revises the statutes for the states, and discusses the proceedings of the different seasons; to be prepared with what is suitable for the ensuing year. 16. Orders are given to the Grand recorder to make a list of the princes of the states according to the positions severally assigned to them', and of the victims required from them to supply the offerings for the worship of God dwelling in the great heaven, and at the altars of (the spirits of) the land and grain. Orders were also given to the states ruled by princes of the royal surname to supply the fodder and grain for the (victims used in the worship of the) ancestra] temple. Orders are given, moreover, to the chief minister to make a list of (the appanages of) the various high ministers and Great officers, with the amount of the land assigned to the common people, and assess them with the victims which they are to contribute to furnish for the sacrifices to (the spirits presiding over) the hills, forests, and famous streams. All the people under the sky, within the nine provinces, must, without exception, do their utmost to contribute to the sacrifices: —to God dwelling in the great heaven; at the altars of the (spirits of the) land and grain; in the ancestral temple and the apartment at the back of it; and of the hills, forests, and famous streams. 17. If, in the last month of winter, the governmental proceedings proper to autumn were observed, the white dews would descend too early; the shelly crea- 1 As being of the same surname as the royal house, or otherwise; the degree of their rank; the size of their territory. 310 THE Lf xt. BK. IV. tures would appear in monstrous forms!; throughout the four borders people would have to seek their places of shelter. If those proper to spring were observed, women with child and young children would suffer many disasters; throughout the states there would be many cases of obstinate disease ; fate would appear to be adverse. If those proper to summer were observed, floods would work their ruin in the states; the seasonable snow would not fall, the ice would melt, and the cold disappear. 1 This is the proper force of the characters. Wang Tho interprets them as meaning that the creatures would bore through dykes and boats, so that the former would let the water through and the latter sink. BOOK V. THE QUESTIONS OF 3ANG-3ZE}. Section I. I. 3ang-sze asked, ‘If a ruler dies and a son and heir is born (immediately after), what course should be adopted ?’
2BOOK V. THE QUESTIONS OF 3ANG-3ZE}. Section I. I. 3ang-sze asked, ‘If a ruler dies and a son and heir is born (immediately after), what course should be adopted ?’ Confucius said, ‘The high nobles’, Great officers and (other) officers, following the chief (minister), who takes charge of the government for the time, (should collect) at the south of the western steps, with their faces towards the north®, (Then) the Grand officer of prayer, in his court robes and cap, bearing in his hands a bundle of rolls of silk, will go up to the topmost step, and (there), without ascending the hall, will order the wailing to cease. Mournfully clearing his voice three times‘, he will make announcement (to the spirit of the deceased ruler), saying, “ The son of such and such a lady has been born. I venture to announce the fact.” He will then go up, and place the silks on a stool on the east of the body in the coffin’, wail, and descend. All the relatives of the deceased who are there (at the mourning), the high nobles, the Great and other 1 See the introduction, pp. 21, 22. 2 These were also ministers; see paragraph 4, page 213. 3 The usual place was at the eastern steps. * To call the attention of the spirit of the deceased. 5 The rolls of silk were, I suppose, the introductory present proper on an interview with a superior. 312 THE Li xf. BE. V. officers, (with the women) in the apartments, all will wail, but without the leaping. When this burst of sorrow is over, they will return to their (proper) places, and proceed forthwith to set forth the mourning offerings to the dead. The minor minister will ascend, and take away the bundle of silks. 2. ‘On the third day, all the relatives, high nobles, Great and other officers, should take their places as before, with their faces to the north. The Grand minister, the Grand master of the ancestral temple, and the Grand officer of prayer, should all be in their court-robes and caps. The master for the child? will carry the child in his arms on a mat of sackcloth. The officer of prayer will precede, followed by the child, and the minister and master of the temple will come after. Thus they will enter the door (of the apartment where the coffin is), when the wailers will cease. The child has been brought up by the western steps’, and is held in front of the coffin with his face to the north, while the officer of prayer stands at the south-east corner of it. Mournfully clearing his voice three times, he will say, “ So and So, the son of such and such a lady, and we, his servants, who follow him, presume to appear before you.” The boy is (then made) to do obeisance, with his forehead on the ground, and to wail. The officer of prayer, the minister, the officer of the temple, all the relatives, the high nobles, with the Great and other officers, 1 And bury it in the court between the two flights of stairs.
3The officer of prayer, the minister, the officer of the temple, all the relatives, the high nobles, with the Great and other officers, 1 And bury it in the court between the two flights of stairs. 2 Thus early is it made to appear that the child is put under a master; P. Zottoli translates the name by ‘secundus magister.’ 5 The child had been brought by the master from the women’s apartments, and carried to the court, that he might thus go up again to the hall by these steps. SECT. I. THE QUESTIONS OF 3ANG-3ZE. 313 will wail and leap’, leaping three times with each burst of grief. (Those who had gone up to the hall then) descend, and go back to their proper places on the east ; where all bare the left arm and shoulder. The son (in the arms of his bearer is made) to leap, and (the women) in the apartments also leap. Thrice they will do so, leaping three times each time. (The bearer for the son) will cover up his sackcloth ®, walk with a staff, (ascend and) set forth the offerings by the dead, and then quit the scene. The Grand minister will charge the officer of prayer and the recorder to announce the name all round, at the five altars of the house, and at those (to the spirits) of the hills and streams %,’ 3. 3ang-yze asked, ‘If the son and heir have been born after the burial (of the) ruler, what course should be followed ?’ Confucius said, ‘The Grand minister and the Grand master of the ancestral temple will follow the Grand officer of prayer, and announce the fact before the spirit tablet (of the deceased ruler)‘. Three months after they will give the name in the same place, and announce it all round’, and also at the altars to (the 1 A most expressive indication of the sorrow proper to the occasion. * The breast and shoulder of the child had also been bared. * The ‘ five household altars’ are.those at which the sacrifices were offered in the palace or house, often mentioned in the last Book. * The characters of the text, ‘in the shrine temple of the father,’ denote the special shrine or smaller temple assigned to the father in the great ancestral temple ; but that was not assigned till after all the rites of mourning were over. The characters here denote the spirit tablet which had been before the burial set up over the coffin, and which was now removed to a rear apartment. P. Zottoli simply has ‘ coram tabell4.’ ® At the courts of the sovereign and of the other princes. 314 THE Lf xf. BK. Vs spirits of) the land and grain, in the ancestral temple, and (at the altars of) the hills and streams.’
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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