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1He will bow forward to them, and he will also have a forerunner (to notify his approach).’ 27. 3ze-hsia asked, ‘There is such a thing as no longer declining military service, after the wailing in the three years’ mourning has come to an end. Is this the rule? or was it at first required by the officers (of the state) ?’ Confucius said, ‘ Under the sovereigns of HsiA, as soon as the coffining in the three years’ mourning was completed, they resigned all their public duties. Under Yin they did so as soon as the interment was over. Is not this the meaning of what we find in the record, that “the ruler does not take from men their affection to their parents, nor do men take from their parents their filial duty ?”’ 342 THE Lf xi. BK. Vv. 28. 3ze-hsid asked, ‘Is then not declining military service (during mourning) to be condemned ?’ Confucius said, ‘I heard from L4o Tan that duke Po-£/in engaged once in such service, when there was occasion for it; but I do not know if I should allow it in those who seek (by it) their own advantage during the period of the three years’ mourning".’ ’ Po-khin was the son of the duke of H4u, and the first marquis of Li. The time of his entering on the rule of that state was a very critical one in the kingdom ; and though it was then, it would appear, the period of his mourning for his mother’s death, he discharged his public duty in the time of his own grief. BOOK VI. WAN WANG SHIH 3ZE OR KING WAN AS SON AND HEIR}. Section I. 1. Thus did king Wan act when he was eldest son aad heir :—Thrice a day he made a visit in due form to king Xi. When the cock first crowed he dressed himself, and going to the outside of the bedroom, asked one of the servants of the interior who was in attendance how the king was and if he were well. When told that he was well, the prince was glad. At midday he repeated the visit in the same way ; and so he did again in the evening*. If the king were not so well as usual, the servant would tell the prince, and then his sorrow appeared in his countenance, and his walk was affected and disturbed. When king At took his food again, Wan recovered his former appearance. When the food went up (to the king), he would examine it and see if it were cold and hot as it ought to be*. When it came down, he asked of what dishes the king had eaten. He gave orders to the cook that none of the dishes should go up again, and withdrew on receiving the cook's assurance accordingly‘. : 1 See the introduction, pages 22, 23. * It was the duty of a son to wait on his father twice a day,—at morning and night. King W&n showed his filial duty by paying king A? a third visit. 5 According to the season. ‘ According to the ordinary dates in Chinese chronology, fing 344 THE Li xt. BK. VJ
2* It was the duty of a son to wait on his father twice a day,—at morning and night. King W&n showed his filial duty by paying king A? a third visit. 5 According to the season. ‘ According to the ordinary dates in Chinese chronology, fing 344 THE Li xt. BK. VJ 2. King Wd acted according to the example (of W4&n), not presuming to go (in anything) beyond it. When king W4n was ill, WO nursed him without taking off his cap or girdle. When king Wan took a meal, he also took a meal; and when king Wan took a second, he did the same. It was not till after twelve days that he intermitted his attentions. King Wan said to Wd, ‘What have you been dreaming ?’ ‘I dreamt,’ was the reply, ‘that God gave me nine ling?’ ‘And what do you think was the meaning?’ King W4 said, ‘There are nine states in the west ;—may it not mean that you will yet bring them all under your happy sway?’ Wan said, ‘ That was not the meaning. Anciently they called a year ling. The age is also called ling. I am roo; and you are go. I give you three years. King W&n was 97 when he died, and king Wa was 93}. "3. King AAang, being quite young, could not perform his part at the eastern steps. The duke of Ku acted as regent, trod those steps, and adminis- Wan was born in s.c. 1258, and named Khang (&)- King Xi died in 1185, when he was in his seventy-fourth year. 1 It is difficult to understand and interpret the latter half of this paragraph. The Xhien-lung editors say that, according to the ordinary accounts, king Wi was born when W&n was fifteen years old, and there was an elder son, Yi-kh4o, who died prematurely ; whereas king WA died at 93, leaving his son Sung (king Aang) only seven years old. ‘Wan,’ they said, ‘ must have married very early, and Wf very late.’ They say also that they cannot understand the text that Wan gave to his son ‘three years,’ &c., and suppose that some erroneous tradition has here been introduced. 2 The king received his nobles at the top of the eastern steps. The phrase=‘in the government of the kingdom.’ SECT. I. WAN WANG SHIH 32E. 345 tered the government. He illustrated the rules for the behaviour of a young heir in his treatment of Po-kAin, that king Aang might thereby know the courses to be pursued by father and son, ruler and minister, old and young. When he committed an error, the duke punished Po-&4in. This was the way in which he showed king Aang his duty as the son and heir. 4. So much on the way in which king Wan acted as son and heir.
3When he committed an error, the duke punished Po-&4in. This was the way in which he showed king Aang his duty as the son and heir. 4. So much on the way in which king Wan acted as son and heir. 5. In teaching the heir-sons (of the king and feudal princes), and young men (chosen from their aptitude) for learning}, the subjects were different at different seasons. In spring and summer they were taught the use of the shield and spear; in autumn and winter that of the feather and flute :—all in the eastern school. The inferior directors of Music?® taught the use of the shield aided by the great assistants. The flute masters taught the use of the spear, aided by the subdirectors, while the assistants regulated by the drum (the chanting of) the Nan*. In spring they recited (the pieces), and in summer 1 These ‘scholars,’ no doubt, were those of whose selection for the higher instruction we have an account in the fourth and other paragraphs of Section IV, Book III. * These are mentioned in the ‘Royal Regulations,’ though the title does not occur in the A@u Li. They are supposed to be the same as its ‘music masters’ (Yo Sze, Book XXII). * This clause about the ‘drum’ is perplexing to a translator. It destroys the symmetry of the paragraph. What we are to understand by the ‘Nan’ is also much disputed. I suppose the term should embrace the two Nan, or two first Books of the Shih, Part I. Compare the Shih II, vi, 4. 4. 346 THE Li xt. BK. VI. they played on the guitar,—being taught by the grand master in the Hall of the Blind’. In autumn they learned ceremonies,—being instructed by the masters of ceremonies. In winter they read the book of History,—being instructed by the guardians of it. Ceremonies were taught in the Hall of the Blind ; the book in the upper school.
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 will bow forward to them, and he will also have a forerunner (to notify his approach).’ 27. 3ze-hsia asked, ‘There is such a thing as no longer declining military service, after the wailing in the three years’ mourning has come to an end. Is this the rule? or was it at first required by the officers (of the state) ?’ Confucius said, ‘ Under the sovereigns of HsiA, as soon as the coffining in the three years’ mourning was completed, they resigned all their public duties. Under Yin they did so as soon as the interment was over. Is not this the meaning of what we find in the record, that “the ruler does not take from men their affection to their parents, nor do men take from their parents their filial duty ?”’ 342 THE Lf xi. BK. Vv. 28. 3ze-hsid asked, ‘Is then not declining military service (during mourning) to be condemned ?’ Confucius said, ‘I heard from L4o Tan that duke Po-£/in engaged once in such service, when there was occasion for it; but I do not know if I should allow it in those who seek (by it) their own advantage during the period of the three years’ mourning".’ ’ Po-khin was the son of the duke of H4u, and the first marquis of Li. The time of his entering on the rule of that state was a very critical one in the kingdom ; and though it was then, it would appear, the period of his mourning for his mother’s death, he discharged his public duty in the time of his own grief. BOOK VI. WAN WANG SHIH 3ZE OR KING WAN AS SON AND HEIR}. Section I. 1. Thus did king Wan act when he was eldest son aad heir :—Thrice a day he made a visit in due form to king Xi. When the cock first crowed he dressed himself, and going to the outside of the bedroom, asked one of the servants of the interior who was in attendance how the king was and if he were well. When told that he was well, the prince was glad. At midday he repeated the visit in the same way ; and so he did again in the evening*. If the king were not so well as usual, the servant would tell the prince, and then his sorrow appeared in his countenance, and his walk was affected and disturbed. When king At took his food again, Wan recovered his former appearance. When the food went up (to the king), he would examine it and see if it were cold and hot as it ought to be*. When it came down, he asked of what dishes the king had eaten. He gave orders to the cook that none of the dishes should go up again, and withdrew on receiving the cook's assurance accordingly‘. : 1 See the introduction, pages 22, 23. * It was the duty of a son to wait on his father twice a day,—at morning and night. King W&n showed his filial duty by paying king A? a third visit. 5 According to the season. ‘ According to the ordinary dates in Chinese chronology, fing 344 THE Li xt. BK. VJ
2* It was the duty of a son to wait on his father twice a day,—at morning and night. King W&n showed his filial duty by paying king A? a third visit. 5 According to the season. ‘ According to the ordinary dates in Chinese chronology, fing 344 THE Li xt. BK. VJ 2. King Wd acted according to the example (of W4&n), not presuming to go (in anything) beyond it. When king W4n was ill, WO nursed him without taking off his cap or girdle. When king Wan took a meal, he also took a meal; and when king Wan took a second, he did the same. It was not till after twelve days that he intermitted his attentions. King Wan said to Wd, ‘What have you been dreaming ?’ ‘I dreamt,’ was the reply, ‘that God gave me nine ling?’ ‘And what do you think was the meaning?’ King W4 said, ‘There are nine states in the west ;—may it not mean that you will yet bring them all under your happy sway?’ Wan said, ‘ That was not the meaning. Anciently they called a year ling. The age is also called ling. I am roo; and you are go. I give you three years. King W&n was 97 when he died, and king Wa was 93}. "3. King AAang, being quite young, could not perform his part at the eastern steps. The duke of Ku acted as regent, trod those steps, and adminis- Wan was born in s.c. 1258, and named Khang (&)- King Xi died in 1185, when he was in his seventy-fourth year. 1 It is difficult to understand and interpret the latter half of this paragraph. The Xhien-lung editors say that, according to the ordinary accounts, king Wi was born when W&n was fifteen years old, and there was an elder son, Yi-kh4o, who died prematurely ; whereas king WA died at 93, leaving his son Sung (king Aang) only seven years old. ‘Wan,’ they said, ‘ must have married very early, and Wf very late.’ They say also that they cannot understand the text that Wan gave to his son ‘three years,’ &c., and suppose that some erroneous tradition has here been introduced. 2 The king received his nobles at the top of the eastern steps. The phrase=‘in the government of the kingdom.’ SECT. I. WAN WANG SHIH 32E. 345 tered the government. He illustrated the rules for the behaviour of a young heir in his treatment of Po-kAin, that king Aang might thereby know the courses to be pursued by father and son, ruler and minister, old and young. When he committed an error, the duke punished Po-&4in. This was the way in which he showed king Aang his duty as the son and heir. 4. So much on the way in which king Wan acted as son and heir.
3When he committed an error, the duke punished Po-&4in. This was the way in which he showed king Aang his duty as the son and heir. 4. So much on the way in which king Wan acted as son and heir. 5. In teaching the heir-sons (of the king and feudal princes), and young men (chosen from their aptitude) for learning}, the subjects were different at different seasons. In spring and summer they were taught the use of the shield and spear; in autumn and winter that of the feather and flute :—all in the eastern school. The inferior directors of Music?® taught the use of the shield aided by the great assistants. The flute masters taught the use of the spear, aided by the subdirectors, while the assistants regulated by the drum (the chanting of) the Nan*. In spring they recited (the pieces), and in summer 1 These ‘scholars,’ no doubt, were those of whose selection for the higher instruction we have an account in the fourth and other paragraphs of Section IV, Book III. * These are mentioned in the ‘Royal Regulations,’ though the title does not occur in the A@u Li. They are supposed to be the same as its ‘music masters’ (Yo Sze, Book XXII). * This clause about the ‘drum’ is perplexing to a translator. It destroys the symmetry of the paragraph. What we are to understand by the ‘Nan’ is also much disputed. I suppose the term should embrace the two Nan, or two first Books of the Shih, Part I. Compare the Shih II, vi, 4. 4. 346 THE Li xt. BK. VI. they played on the guitar,—being taught by the grand master in the Hall of the Blind’. In autumn they learned ceremonies,—being instructed by the masters of ceremonies. In winter they read the book of History,—being instructed by the guardians of it. Ceremonies were taught in the Hall of the Blind ; the book in the upper school.
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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