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1He did not wear the hempen band, when receiving any orders. When he had nothing to do (in mourning rites), he stood on the north of the principal mourner, with his face to the south. When going to see a teacher, he followed in the suite of others, and entered his apartment. 13. When one was sitting at a meal with another older than himself, or of a different (and higher) rank, he was the last to put down the offering’, but the first to taste the food. When the guest put down the offering, the host apologised, saying that the food was not worthy of such a tribute. When the guest was enjoying the viands, the host apologised for their being scanty and poor. When the host himself put down the pickle (for the guest), the guest himself removed it. When the members of a household ate together, not being host and guests, one of them removed the dishes; and the same was done when a company had eaten together. At all festival meals, the women (of the house) did not remove the dishes. 1 This paragraph seems to be out of place. Kang thought should follow the first sentence of paragraph 27 in the last part. * By way of thanksgiving to the father of Cookery. SECT. IU. yii 8Ao. at 14. When eating dates, peaches, or plums, they did not cast the stones away (on the ground). They put down the first slice of a melon as an offering, ate the other slices, and threw away the part by which they held it. When others were eating fruits with a man of rank, they ate them after him; cooked viands they ate before him%. At meetings of rejoicing, if there were not some gift from the ruler, they did not congratulate one another ; at meetings of sorrow’,.... 15. If one had any toilsome business to do, he took them in his hand. If he were running, he thrust them in his breast‘. 16. When Confucius was eating with (the head of) the A1 family, he made no attempt to decline anything, but finished his meal with the rice and liquid added to ‘it, without eating any of the flesh®. 17. When the ruler sent (to an officer) the gift of a carriage and horses, he used them in going to give thanks for them. When the gift was of clothes, he wore them on the same occasion. (In the case of similar gifts to a commissioner from the king), until his (own) ruler had given him orders to use them, he did not dare at once to do so* When the ruler’s * Compare vol. xxvii, page 81, paragraph 62. * Fruits were the productions of nature, and there could be no poison in them. Cooked food might have been tampered with, and those in attendance on a superior man first tasted it as a precaution for his safety. * The conclusion is evidently lost. * A mistaken and meaningless repetition of part of paragraph rr. 5 To express, it is supposed, his dissatisfaction with some want of courtesy in his host. * This sentence is perplexing, and there are different views in interpreting it. I have followed Kang Hstian. 22 THE tt xt. BK. XI.
2* A mistaken and meaningless repetition of part of paragraph rr. 5 To express, it is supposed, his dissatisfaction with some want of courtesy in his host. * This sentence is perplexing, and there are different views in interpreting it. I have followed Kang Hstian. 22 THE tt xt. BK. XI. gift reached him, he bowed his head to the ground with his two hands also, laying one of them over the other. A gift of liquor and flesh did not require the second expression of thanks (by the visit). 18, Whenever a gift was conferred on a man of rank, nothing was given to a small man on the same day. 19, In all cases of presenting offerings to a ruler, a Great officer sent his steward with them, and an ordinary officer went with them himself. In both cases they did obeisance twice, with their heads to the ground as they sent the things away; and again the steward and the officer did the same at the ruler’s'. If the offerings were of prepared food for the ruler, there were the accompaniments of ginger and other pungent vegetables, of a peach-wood and a sedge-broom?, A Great officer dispensed with the broom, and the officer with the pungent vegetables. (The bearers) went in with all the articles to the cook. The Great officer did not go in person to make obeisance, lest the ruler should come to respond to him, 20. When a Great officer went (next day) to do obeisance for the ruler’s gift, he retired after performing the ceremony. An officer, (doing the same), -waited to receive the ruler’s acknowledgment (of his visit), and then retired, bowing again as he did so; but (the ruler) did not respond to his obeisance. When a Great officer gave anything in person to an ordinary officer, the latter bowed on receiving 1 This translation seems to make too much out of the text; but it is after Khung Ying-ta, AA8n HAo, and others. * Such presents might decompose or become offensive, and therefore these accompaniments were sent with them. SECT. III. yt 8Ao. 23 it; and also went to his house to repeat the obeisance. He did not, however, wear the clothes (which might have been the gift), in going to make that obeisance. (In interchanges between) equals, if (the recipient) were in the house (when the gift arrived), he went and made his obeisance in the house (of the donor). 21. When any one presented an offering to his superior in rank, he did not dare to say directly that it was for him}. An ordinary officer did not presume to receive the congratulations of a Great officer; but a Great officer of the lowest grade did so from one of the highest. When one was exchanging courtesies with another, if his father were alive, he would appeal to his authority ; if the other gave him a gift, he would say, in making obeisance for it, that he did so for his father.
3When one was exchanging courtesies with another, if his father were alive, he would appeal to his authority ; if the other gave him a gift, he would say, in making obeisance for it, that he did so for his father. 22. If the ceremony were not very great, the (beauty of the) dress was not concealed. In accordance with this, when the great robe of fur was worn, it was without the appendage of one of thin silk to display it, and when (the king) rode in the grand carriage, he did not bend forward to the cross-bar (to show his reverence for any one beyond the service he was engaged on) *. * He would say, for instance, that it was for some member of his household. * There are only fifteen characters in this paragraph, nor is there any intricacy in its structure, but few passages in the collection perplex a translator more. If we leave out the negatives in the former sentence, the meaning becomes clear. The grand carriage and grand fur-robe were used at the greatest of all ceremonies, the solstitial sacrifice to Heaven, which itself so occupied the mind 24 THE Lf xf. BK. XI. 23. When a father’s summons came to him, a son reverently obeyed it without any delay. Whatever work he had in hand, he laid aside. He ejected the meat that was in his mouth, and ran, not contenting himself with a measured, though rapid pace. When his parents were old and he had gone away, he did not go to a second place, nor delay his return beyond the time agreed on; when they were ailing, his looks and manner appeared troubled :—these were less-important observances of a filial son. _ 24. When his father died, he could not (bear to) read his books.;—the touch of his hand seemed still to be on them. When his mother died, he could not (bear to) drink from the cups and bowls that she had used ;—the breath of her mouth seemed still to be on them. 25. When a ruler, (visiting another ruler), was about to enter the gate, the attendant dusted the low post (at the middle of the threshold). The Great officers stood midway between the side-posts and this short post (behind their respective rulers). An officer, acting as an attendant, brushed the side-posts. (A Great officer) on a mission from another court, did not enter at the middle of (either half of) the gate, nor tread on the threshold. If he were come on public business, he entered on the west of the short post; if on his own business, on the east of it. 26. A ruler and a representative of the dead brought their feet together step by step when they walked ; a Great officer stepped along, one foot after the other; an ordinary officer kept the length of his of the sovereign that he was supposed to think of nothing else. The paragraph might have had a more appropriate place in the seventh Book or the ninth. SECT. Il. YU 8Ao. 25
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 did not wear the hempen band, when receiving any orders. When he had nothing to do (in mourning rites), he stood on the north of the principal mourner, with his face to the south. When going to see a teacher, he followed in the suite of others, and entered his apartment. 13. When one was sitting at a meal with another older than himself, or of a different (and higher) rank, he was the last to put down the offering’, but the first to taste the food. When the guest put down the offering, the host apologised, saying that the food was not worthy of such a tribute. When the guest was enjoying the viands, the host apologised for their being scanty and poor. When the host himself put down the pickle (for the guest), the guest himself removed it. When the members of a household ate together, not being host and guests, one of them removed the dishes; and the same was done when a company had eaten together. At all festival meals, the women (of the house) did not remove the dishes. 1 This paragraph seems to be out of place. Kang thought should follow the first sentence of paragraph 27 in the last part. * By way of thanksgiving to the father of Cookery. SECT. IU. yii 8Ao. at 14. When eating dates, peaches, or plums, they did not cast the stones away (on the ground). They put down the first slice of a melon as an offering, ate the other slices, and threw away the part by which they held it. When others were eating fruits with a man of rank, they ate them after him; cooked viands they ate before him%. At meetings of rejoicing, if there were not some gift from the ruler, they did not congratulate one another ; at meetings of sorrow’,.... 15. If one had any toilsome business to do, he took them in his hand. If he were running, he thrust them in his breast‘. 16. When Confucius was eating with (the head of) the A1 family, he made no attempt to decline anything, but finished his meal with the rice and liquid added to ‘it, without eating any of the flesh®. 17. When the ruler sent (to an officer) the gift of a carriage and horses, he used them in going to give thanks for them. When the gift was of clothes, he wore them on the same occasion. (In the case of similar gifts to a commissioner from the king), until his (own) ruler had given him orders to use them, he did not dare at once to do so* When the ruler’s * Compare vol. xxvii, page 81, paragraph 62. * Fruits were the productions of nature, and there could be no poison in them. Cooked food might have been tampered with, and those in attendance on a superior man first tasted it as a precaution for his safety. * The conclusion is evidently lost. * A mistaken and meaningless repetition of part of paragraph rr. 5 To express, it is supposed, his dissatisfaction with some want of courtesy in his host. * This sentence is perplexing, and there are different views in interpreting it. I have followed Kang Hstian. 22 THE tt xt. BK. XI.
2* A mistaken and meaningless repetition of part of paragraph rr. 5 To express, it is supposed, his dissatisfaction with some want of courtesy in his host. * This sentence is perplexing, and there are different views in interpreting it. I have followed Kang Hstian. 22 THE tt xt. BK. XI. gift reached him, he bowed his head to the ground with his two hands also, laying one of them over the other. A gift of liquor and flesh did not require the second expression of thanks (by the visit). 18, Whenever a gift was conferred on a man of rank, nothing was given to a small man on the same day. 19, In all cases of presenting offerings to a ruler, a Great officer sent his steward with them, and an ordinary officer went with them himself. In both cases they did obeisance twice, with their heads to the ground as they sent the things away; and again the steward and the officer did the same at the ruler’s'. If the offerings were of prepared food for the ruler, there were the accompaniments of ginger and other pungent vegetables, of a peach-wood and a sedge-broom?, A Great officer dispensed with the broom, and the officer with the pungent vegetables. (The bearers) went in with all the articles to the cook. The Great officer did not go in person to make obeisance, lest the ruler should come to respond to him, 20. When a Great officer went (next day) to do obeisance for the ruler’s gift, he retired after performing the ceremony. An officer, (doing the same), -waited to receive the ruler’s acknowledgment (of his visit), and then retired, bowing again as he did so; but (the ruler) did not respond to his obeisance. When a Great officer gave anything in person to an ordinary officer, the latter bowed on receiving 1 This translation seems to make too much out of the text; but it is after Khung Ying-ta, AA8n HAo, and others. * Such presents might decompose or become offensive, and therefore these accompaniments were sent with them. SECT. III. yt 8Ao. 23 it; and also went to his house to repeat the obeisance. He did not, however, wear the clothes (which might have been the gift), in going to make that obeisance. (In interchanges between) equals, if (the recipient) were in the house (when the gift arrived), he went and made his obeisance in the house (of the donor). 21. When any one presented an offering to his superior in rank, he did not dare to say directly that it was for him}. An ordinary officer did not presume to receive the congratulations of a Great officer; but a Great officer of the lowest grade did so from one of the highest. When one was exchanging courtesies with another, if his father were alive, he would appeal to his authority ; if the other gave him a gift, he would say, in making obeisance for it, that he did so for his father.
3When one was exchanging courtesies with another, if his father were alive, he would appeal to his authority ; if the other gave him a gift, he would say, in making obeisance for it, that he did so for his father. 22. If the ceremony were not very great, the (beauty of the) dress was not concealed. In accordance with this, when the great robe of fur was worn, it was without the appendage of one of thin silk to display it, and when (the king) rode in the grand carriage, he did not bend forward to the cross-bar (to show his reverence for any one beyond the service he was engaged on) *. * He would say, for instance, that it was for some member of his household. * There are only fifteen characters in this paragraph, nor is there any intricacy in its structure, but few passages in the collection perplex a translator more. If we leave out the negatives in the former sentence, the meaning becomes clear. The grand carriage and grand fur-robe were used at the greatest of all ceremonies, the solstitial sacrifice to Heaven, which itself so occupied the mind 24 THE Lf xf. BK. XI. 23. When a father’s summons came to him, a son reverently obeyed it without any delay. Whatever work he had in hand, he laid aside. He ejected the meat that was in his mouth, and ran, not contenting himself with a measured, though rapid pace. When his parents were old and he had gone away, he did not go to a second place, nor delay his return beyond the time agreed on; when they were ailing, his looks and manner appeared troubled :—these were less-important observances of a filial son. _ 24. When his father died, he could not (bear to) read his books.;—the touch of his hand seemed still to be on them. When his mother died, he could not (bear to) drink from the cups and bowls that she had used ;—the breath of her mouth seemed still to be on them. 25. When a ruler, (visiting another ruler), was about to enter the gate, the attendant dusted the low post (at the middle of the threshold). The Great officers stood midway between the side-posts and this short post (behind their respective rulers). An officer, acting as an attendant, brushed the side-posts. (A Great officer) on a mission from another court, did not enter at the middle of (either half of) the gate, nor tread on the threshold. If he were come on public business, he entered on the west of the short post; if on his own business, on the east of it. 26. A ruler and a representative of the dead brought their feet together step by step when they walked ; a Great officer stepped along, one foot after the other; an ordinary officer kept the length of his of the sovereign that he was supposed to think of nothing else. The paragraph might have had a more appropriate place in the seventh Book or the ninth. SECT. Il. YU 8Ao. 25
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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