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14. The chiefs of the nine 3h4i were outside the Ying gate, with their faces to the north, inclining to the east as the position of honour for them ; those of the four S4i (also) came, who had only once in their time to announce their arrival (at the court). These were the places of the lords in the Hall of Distinction (when they appeared before) the duke of K4u’. 1 f was the general name for the wild tribes of the east; M4n, for those of the south; Zung, for those of the west ; and Ti, for those of the north. 3 It is so difficult to explain what is meant by ‘the nine 3 hai,’ and again by ‘the four Sai,’ that I am inclined to doubt, with Wang Yen (£ R) and others, the genuineness of this paragraph. BK. XIL. MING THANG WEI. 31 5. The Hall of Distinction was so called, because in it the rank of the princes was clearly shown as high or low". 6. Formerly, when Au of Yin was throwing the whole kingdom into confusion, he made dried slices of (the flesh of) the marquis of Kwei*, and used them in feasting the princes. On this account the duke of A4u assisted king WO in attacking Ku. When king Wa died, king AAang being young and weak, the duke took the seat of the son of Heaven, and governed the kingdom. During six years he gave audience to all the princes in the Hall of Distinction ; instituted ceremonies, made his instruments of music, gave out his (standard) weights and measures‘, and there was a grand submission throughout the kingdom. 7. In the seventh year, he resigned the government to king Aang; and he, in consideration of the duke’s services to the kingdom, invested him with (the territory about) AZii-f05, seven hundred It square, and sending forth a thousand chariots of 2 See the introduction, vol. xxvii, page 28. 2 <The marquis of Kwei’ appears in Sze-ma Khien’s history of Yin (near the end), as the marquis of KAid (JU $e), and is made into pickle. The reference, no doubt, is to some act of atrocious and wanton cruelty on the part of K4u. * This can only mean that the duke, as regent, administered the government, though the compiler of the Book wanted to exalt his personality beyond the bounds of truth. * The text is—measures of length and of capacity. ® Khi-f is still a district city in the department of Yen-éau, Shan-tung. It was the capital of LQ; and is called by foreigners ‘the city of Confucius,’ It contains the great temple of the sage, and is the residence of his representative-descendant, with thousands of other Khungs. 32 THE Lf xf. BK. XII, war!, He (also) gave charge that (the princes of) Lf, from generation to generation, should sacrifice to the duke of A4u with the ceremonies and music proper at a sacrifice by the son of Heaven.
232 THE Lf xf. BK. XII, war!, He (also) gave charge that (the princes of) Lf, from generation to generation, should sacrifice to the duke of A4u with the ceremonies and music proper at a sacrifice by the son of Heaven. 8. Thus it was that the rulers of Ld, in the first month of spring, rode in a grand carriage, displaying the banner, suspended from its bow-like arm, with the twelve streamers, and having the sun and moon emblazoned on it, to sacrifice to God in the suburb of their metropolis, associating H4u At as his assessor in the service ;—according to the ceremonies used by the son of Heaven?. g. In the last month of summer, the sixth month, they used the ceremonies of the great sacrifice in sacrificing to the duke of A’4u in the great ancestral temple, employing for the victim to him a white bull. The cups were those with the figure of a victim bull, of an elephant, and of hills and clouds; that for the fragrant spirits was the one with gilt eyes on it. For libations they used the cup of jade with the handle made of a long rank-symbol. The dishes with the offerings were on stands of wood, adorned with jade and carved. The cups for the personator were of jade carved in the same way. There were also the plain cups and those of horn, adorned with round pieces of jade; and for the meat-stands, they used those with four feet and the cross-binders. 10. (The singers) went up to the hall (or stage), 2 This is one of the gross exaggerations in the Book. The marquisate of LQ was only a hundred If square on its first constitution. * Of this and many of the statements in the paragraphs that follow, see the fourth of the ‘Praise Odes of LQ,’ in the Shih, Metrical version, pp. 379-383. BX. XII, MING THANG WEI. 33 and sang the King Mido; (in the court) below, (the pantomimes) performed the Hsiang dance}, to the accompaniment of the wind instruments. With their red shields and jade-adorned axes, and in their caps with pendants, they danced to the music of the Ta W4?; in their skin caps, and large white skirts gathered at the waist, and jacket of silk, they danced the TA Hsia®. There (were also) the Mei, or music of the wild tribes of the East; and the Zan, or music of those of the South. The introduction of these two in the grand temple was to signalise the distinction of La all over the kingdom. 11. The ruler, in his dragon-figured robe and cap with pendants, stood at the eastern steps; and his wife, in her head-dress and embroidered robe, stood in her room. The ruler, with shoulder bared, met the victim at the gate; his wife brought in the stands for the dishes. The ministers and Great officers assisted the ruler; their wives‘ assisted his wife. Each one discharged the duty proper to him or her. Any officer who neglected his duty was severely punished; and throughout the kingdom there was a great acknowledgment of, and submission to, (the worth of the duke of Au).
3Each one discharged the duty proper to him or her. Any officer who neglected his duty was severely punished; and throughout the kingdom there was a great acknowledgment of, and submission to, (the worth of the duke of Au). 12. (In Lf) they offered (also) the sacrifices of summer, autumn, and winter (in the ancestral temple); with those at the altars of the land and grain in spring, and that at the autumnal hunt, going on to the great sacrifice of thanksgiving at 1 See vol. xxvii, page 361, paragraph a1. * Attributed to king WA. 5 Said to be of the Hsia dynasty. * *The commissioned wives;’ including, according to AA&n Ho, the ruler’s ‘ladies of honour,’ as well as the wives of his ministers and Great officers, [28] D 34.~«C«W THE Lf xf. BK, XI. the end of the year :—all (after the pattern of) the sacrifices of the son of Heaven. 13. The grand temple (of Lf) corresponded to the Hall of Distinction of the son of Heaven, the Kha gate of the (marquis’s palace) to the K4o (or outer) gate of the king’s, and the Xih gate to the Ying. They shook the bell with the wooden clapper in the court as was done in the royal court, in announcing governmental orders. 14. The capitals of the pillars with hills carved on them, and the pond-weed carving on the small pillars above the beams; the second storey and the great beams projecting under the. eaves; the polished pillars and the windows opposite to- one another ; the earthen stand on which the cups, after being used, were placed; the high stand on which the jade tokens were displayed aloft; and the slightly carved screen:—all these were ornaments of the temple of the son of Heaven *. 15. (The princes of Ld) had, as carriages, that of (Shun), the lord of Yii, furnished with bells; that of the sovereign of Hsia, with its carved front; the Great carriage (of wood), or that of Yin; and the carriage (adorned with jade), or that of Au. ‘16. They had, as flags or banners, that of (Shun), the lord of Yii; the yak’s tail of the sovereign of Hsia; the great white flag of Yin; and the corresponding red one of Au. 1 The five gates of the royal palace, beginning with the outermost, were the K4o (#), the Kha (Jt), the Zih (HE), the Ving (ff&), and the La (}§%); the palaces of the princes wanted the Kao and Ying gates. The grand temples appear to have been constructed on a similar plan, to the east of the palace. * And in the temple of LA, also, it is implied. BK. XII. MING THANG WEI. 35 17. They had the white horses of the sovereign of Hsi4, with their black manes; the white horses of Yin, with their black heads; and the bay horses of K4u, with red manes. The sovereigns of Hsia preferred black victims ; those of Yin, white; and those of A4u, victims which were red and strong.
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.
14. The chiefs of the nine 3h4i were outside the Ying gate, with their faces to the north, inclining to the east as the position of honour for them ; those of the four S4i (also) came, who had only once in their time to announce their arrival (at the court). These were the places of the lords in the Hall of Distinction (when they appeared before) the duke of K4u’. 1 f was the general name for the wild tribes of the east; M4n, for those of the south; Zung, for those of the west ; and Ti, for those of the north. 3 It is so difficult to explain what is meant by ‘the nine 3 hai,’ and again by ‘the four Sai,’ that I am inclined to doubt, with Wang Yen (£ R) and others, the genuineness of this paragraph. BK. XIL. MING THANG WEI. 31 5. The Hall of Distinction was so called, because in it the rank of the princes was clearly shown as high or low". 6. Formerly, when Au of Yin was throwing the whole kingdom into confusion, he made dried slices of (the flesh of) the marquis of Kwei*, and used them in feasting the princes. On this account the duke of A4u assisted king WO in attacking Ku. When king Wa died, king AAang being young and weak, the duke took the seat of the son of Heaven, and governed the kingdom. During six years he gave audience to all the princes in the Hall of Distinction ; instituted ceremonies, made his instruments of music, gave out his (standard) weights and measures‘, and there was a grand submission throughout the kingdom. 7. In the seventh year, he resigned the government to king Aang; and he, in consideration of the duke’s services to the kingdom, invested him with (the territory about) AZii-f05, seven hundred It square, and sending forth a thousand chariots of 2 See the introduction, vol. xxvii, page 28. 2 <The marquis of Kwei’ appears in Sze-ma Khien’s history of Yin (near the end), as the marquis of KAid (JU $e), and is made into pickle. The reference, no doubt, is to some act of atrocious and wanton cruelty on the part of K4u. * This can only mean that the duke, as regent, administered the government, though the compiler of the Book wanted to exalt his personality beyond the bounds of truth. * The text is—measures of length and of capacity. ® Khi-f is still a district city in the department of Yen-éau, Shan-tung. It was the capital of LQ; and is called by foreigners ‘the city of Confucius,’ It contains the great temple of the sage, and is the residence of his representative-descendant, with thousands of other Khungs. 32 THE Lf xf. BK. XII, war!, He (also) gave charge that (the princes of) Lf, from generation to generation, should sacrifice to the duke of A4u with the ceremonies and music proper at a sacrifice by the son of Heaven.
232 THE Lf xf. BK. XII, war!, He (also) gave charge that (the princes of) Lf, from generation to generation, should sacrifice to the duke of A4u with the ceremonies and music proper at a sacrifice by the son of Heaven. 8. Thus it was that the rulers of Ld, in the first month of spring, rode in a grand carriage, displaying the banner, suspended from its bow-like arm, with the twelve streamers, and having the sun and moon emblazoned on it, to sacrifice to God in the suburb of their metropolis, associating H4u At as his assessor in the service ;—according to the ceremonies used by the son of Heaven?. g. In the last month of summer, the sixth month, they used the ceremonies of the great sacrifice in sacrificing to the duke of A’4u in the great ancestral temple, employing for the victim to him a white bull. The cups were those with the figure of a victim bull, of an elephant, and of hills and clouds; that for the fragrant spirits was the one with gilt eyes on it. For libations they used the cup of jade with the handle made of a long rank-symbol. The dishes with the offerings were on stands of wood, adorned with jade and carved. The cups for the personator were of jade carved in the same way. There were also the plain cups and those of horn, adorned with round pieces of jade; and for the meat-stands, they used those with four feet and the cross-binders. 10. (The singers) went up to the hall (or stage), 2 This is one of the gross exaggerations in the Book. The marquisate of LQ was only a hundred If square on its first constitution. * Of this and many of the statements in the paragraphs that follow, see the fourth of the ‘Praise Odes of LQ,’ in the Shih, Metrical version, pp. 379-383. BX. XII, MING THANG WEI. 33 and sang the King Mido; (in the court) below, (the pantomimes) performed the Hsiang dance}, to the accompaniment of the wind instruments. With their red shields and jade-adorned axes, and in their caps with pendants, they danced to the music of the Ta W4?; in their skin caps, and large white skirts gathered at the waist, and jacket of silk, they danced the TA Hsia®. There (were also) the Mei, or music of the wild tribes of the East; and the Zan, or music of those of the South. The introduction of these two in the grand temple was to signalise the distinction of La all over the kingdom. 11. The ruler, in his dragon-figured robe and cap with pendants, stood at the eastern steps; and his wife, in her head-dress and embroidered robe, stood in her room. The ruler, with shoulder bared, met the victim at the gate; his wife brought in the stands for the dishes. The ministers and Great officers assisted the ruler; their wives‘ assisted his wife. Each one discharged the duty proper to him or her. Any officer who neglected his duty was severely punished; and throughout the kingdom there was a great acknowledgment of, and submission to, (the worth of the duke of Au).
3Each one discharged the duty proper to him or her. Any officer who neglected his duty was severely punished; and throughout the kingdom there was a great acknowledgment of, and submission to, (the worth of the duke of Au). 12. (In Lf) they offered (also) the sacrifices of summer, autumn, and winter (in the ancestral temple); with those at the altars of the land and grain in spring, and that at the autumnal hunt, going on to the great sacrifice of thanksgiving at 1 See vol. xxvii, page 361, paragraph a1. * Attributed to king WA. 5 Said to be of the Hsia dynasty. * *The commissioned wives;’ including, according to AA&n Ho, the ruler’s ‘ladies of honour,’ as well as the wives of his ministers and Great officers, [28] D 34.~«C«W THE Lf xf. BK, XI. the end of the year :—all (after the pattern of) the sacrifices of the son of Heaven. 13. The grand temple (of Lf) corresponded to the Hall of Distinction of the son of Heaven, the Kha gate of the (marquis’s palace) to the K4o (or outer) gate of the king’s, and the Xih gate to the Ying. They shook the bell with the wooden clapper in the court as was done in the royal court, in announcing governmental orders. 14. The capitals of the pillars with hills carved on them, and the pond-weed carving on the small pillars above the beams; the second storey and the great beams projecting under the. eaves; the polished pillars and the windows opposite to- one another ; the earthen stand on which the cups, after being used, were placed; the high stand on which the jade tokens were displayed aloft; and the slightly carved screen:—all these were ornaments of the temple of the son of Heaven *. 15. (The princes of Ld) had, as carriages, that of (Shun), the lord of Yii, furnished with bells; that of the sovereign of Hsia, with its carved front; the Great carriage (of wood), or that of Yin; and the carriage (adorned with jade), or that of Au. ‘16. They had, as flags or banners, that of (Shun), the lord of Yii; the yak’s tail of the sovereign of Hsia; the great white flag of Yin; and the corresponding red one of Au. 1 The five gates of the royal palace, beginning with the outermost, were the K4o (#), the Kha (Jt), the Zih (HE), the Ving (ff&), and the La (}§%); the palaces of the princes wanted the Kao and Ying gates. The grand temples appear to have been constructed on a similar plan, to the east of the palace. * And in the temple of LA, also, it is implied. BK. XII. MING THANG WEI. 35 17. They had the white horses of the sovereign of Hsi4, with their black manes; the white horses of Yin, with their black heads; and the bay horses of K4u, with red manes. The sovereigns of Hsia preferred black victims ; those of Yin, white; and those of A4u, victims which were red and strong.
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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