THE CHINESE CLASSICS: WITH 104080 A TRANSLATION, CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES, OR THE BOOKS OF CHOW; AND THE INDEXES. HONGKONG: AT THE AUTHOR'S. LONDON: TRÜBNER & Co., 60, PATERNOSTER ROW. 1865. 1 In the spring of the thirteenth year, there was a great assembly 2 at Măng-tsin. The king said, "Ah! ye hereditary rulers of my friendly States, and all ye my officers, managers of my affairs, listen clearly to my declaration. NAME OF THE PART.-, 'The Books of Chow.' Chow is the dynastic designation under which Woo and his descendants possessed the empire from B.C. 1121-255, a period of 867 years. They traced their lineage up to Ke ), the minister of Agriculture under Shun. K'e is said to have been a son of the emperor K'uh (B.c. 2432). The marvels of his birth and infancy are pleasantly described in the second Part of the She King, and are duly pres. small department of 邪. There his de scendants remained till B.c. 1326, when Tan-foo, afterwards styled king T'ae in the sacrificial ritual of the dynasty, removed to the foot of mount K'e in the pres. dis. of K'e-san ( dep. of Fung-ts'ëang;-see Men., I., Pt., II., xiv., and xv. The State which he established there was called Chow. King T'ae was succeeded by his son Ke-leih, or king Ke, and he again by his son Ch'ang, or king Wan, who transmitted his hereditary dominions, greatly increased, and his authority to his son Fă or king Woo. Woo then adopted Chow as the designation of the dynasty which he founded. chronicled by Sze-ma Ts'een (J. He was invested with the principality of Tae (AB), the pres. dis. of Foo-fung (E), dep. of Fung-ts'ëang (), in Shen-se. In the time of Kee, B.c. 1796, the fortunes of the family, which had for some time been waning, revived under Kung-lew (they suffer so much in consequence of the fires of Ts'in as those of the Shang dynasty. Out of 38 The Books of Chow were more numerous, as we might expect, than those of the previous dynasties, even though they belong only to little more than the first half of its history. Nor did , who established himself in Pin(), the documents there remain 20 whose genuineness |