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And what renders them peculiarly effective is that, instead of beginning as we always do with a soft aspiration, as in Hollo, Ho, etc., their cries always commence with a harsh sound, as kau; and this circumstance enables them to talk at a great distance so as to be perfectly intelligible to one another.
But in the writings of the Kau period we find statements of time continually referred to the calendar of Hsia, as here. 2 These first two lines are all but unmanageable. The old critics held that there was no mention of king Khang in them; but the text is definite on this point. on your private fields , All over the thirty li . Attend to your ploughing, With your ten thousand men all in pairs.
The former would grow up directly from the root; and the latter, the chief nobles of the kingdom, would constitute the branches of the great Kau tree. than hundreds of thousands. But when God gave the command, They became subject to Kau.
Than-fu was now at leisure to build the palace for himself, which appears to have been not a very large building, though the Chinese names of its gates are those belonging to the two which were peculiar to the palaces of the kings of Kau in the subsequent times of the dynasty.
He passed on the contrary side of the tree, and did not see Raja Muda, but began to stab with his weapon the dead body of Lessut, in excess of rage, on seeing the bloody remains of his two brothers. Just then, Raja Muda, who was half dead, but had his kris in his hand, still unseen by Raddin Siban, crawled a step or two and thrust the weapon into his side, saying "Matti kau" "die thou!"
A sacrifice was offered to the spirit of the road on commencing a journey, and we see here that it was offered also in connexion with the king's going to the ancestral temple or the border altar. It does not appear clearly what sacrifices the poet had in view here. I think they must be all those in which the kings of Kau appeared as the principals or sacrificers.
About Kiang Yuean and her conception and birth of Hau-ki, see the first piece in the third decade of the Major Odes of the Kingdom. and then wheat. I will greatly enlarge your territory there, To be a help and support to the House of Kau. In spring See on the Sacrificial Odes of Kau, decade i, ode 5. See the Shu, V, iii.
DUKE Liu, an ancestor of the Kau family, made a settlement, according to its traditions, in B.C. 1797, in Pin, the site of which is pointed out, 90 li to the west of the present district city of San-shui, in Pin Kau, Shen-hsi, where the tribe remained till the movement eastwards of Than-fu, celebrated in the first decade of the Major Odes of the Kingdom, ode 3. THE KHI YUeEH.
Compare with this the account given, in ode 3 of the first decade, of the settling of 'the ancient duke Than-fu' in the plain of Kau. Here, as there, the great religious edifice, the ancestral temple, takes precedence of all other buildings in the new city. The steeds with their equipments were tokens of the royal favour, usually granted on occasions of investiture.
With the Khuean A, what are called the 'correct' odes of Part III, or those belonging to a period of good government, and the composition of which is ascribed mainly to the duke of Kau, come to an end; and those that follow are the 'changed' Major Odes of the Kingdom, or those belonging to a degenerate period, commencing with this. Some among them, however, are equal to any of the former class.
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