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THE CHINESE CLASSICS.

VOL. III.

THE SHOO KING,

OR

THE BOOK OF HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS.

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THE

CHINESE CLASSICS:

WITH

A TRANSLATION, CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES,
PROLEGOMENA, AND COPIOUS INDEXES.

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OR THE BOOKS OF CHOW; AND THE INDEXES.

HONGKONG: AT THE AUTHOR'S.

LONDON: TRÜBNER & Co., 60, PATERNOSTER ROW.
1865.

HONGKONG :

PRINTED AT THE LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY'S

PRINTING OFFICE.

THE SHOO KING.

PART V. THE BOOKS OF CHOW.

BOOK I. THE GREAT DECLARATION. PART i.

庶越友王訏年

我邦曰孟春十

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明御冢嗟津大有

聽專 事君我

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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.一周書, (The Books | pres. small department of There his de

of Chow." Chow is the dynastic designation | scendants remained till .c. 1326, when Tan-foo, under which Woo and his descendants possessed afterwards styled king T'ae in the sacrificial the empire from B.c. 1121–255, a period of 867 ritual of the dynasty, removed to the foot of years. They traced their lineage up to Ke mount K'e in the pres, dis. of K'e-san

(岐山),

(棄), the minister of Agriculture(后稷) dep. of Fung-tsëang;–see Men, I., Pt. 1., xiv.,

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

chronicled by Sze-ma Tseen (周本紀). He was invested with the principality of Tae (邰), the pres. dis. of Foo-fung (扶風), dep. of Fung-tsëang (鳳翔), in Shen-se.

In the time of Këe, B.c. 1796, the fortunes of the family, which had for some time been waning, revived under Kung-lew

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 Wăn, who transmitted his

hereditary dominions, greatly increased, and his authority to his son Fă or king Woo. Woo dynasty which he founded.

then adopted Chow as the designation of the

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 they suffer so much in consequence of the fires of Ts'in as those of the Shang dynasty. Out of 38 who established himself in Pin (豳), the documents there remain 20 whose genuineness

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