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We are told that as he wished to hear the music of Kau, which he could do better in Lu than in any other state, they sang to him the odes of the Kau Nan and the Shao Nan; those of Phei, Yung, and Wei; of the Royal Domain; of Kang; of Khi; of Pin; of Khin; of Wei; of Thang; of Khan; of Kwei; and of Zhao.
The rhyme helped the memory to retain them, and while wood, bamboo, and silk had all been consumed by the flames of Khin, when the time of repression ceased, scholars would be eager to rehearse their stores. It was inevitable, and more so in China than in a country possessing an alphabet, that the same sounds when taken down by different writers should be represented by different characters.
The man of my admiration is no more here; With whom can I dwell? I rest alone. How beautiful was the pillow of horn! How splendid was the embroidered coverlet ! The man of my admiration is no more here; With whom can I dwell? THE state of Khin took its name from its earliest principal city, in the present district of Khing-shui, in Khin Kau, Kan-su.
Its chiefs claimed to be descended from Yi, who appears in the Shu as the forester of Shun, and the assistant of the great Yue in his labours on the flood of Yao. the small territory of Khin, as an attached state.
Analects, VII, xvii. 2 Analects, VIII, viii, XVII, ix. Analects, XVII, x. From Confucius to rise of the Khin dynasty. Of the attention paid to the study of the Shih from the death of Confucius to the rise -of the Khin dynasty, we have abundant evidence in the writings of his the grandson Dze-sze, of Mencius, and of Hsuen Khing.
While living we may have to occupy different apartments; But, when dead, we shall share the same grave. If you say that I am not sincere, By the bright sun I swear that I am . THE odes of Thang were really the odes of Zin, the greatest of the fiefs of Kau until the rise of Khin.
The Shih shared in the calamity which all the other classical works, excepting the Yi, suffered, when the tyrant of Khin issued his edict for their destruction. But I have shown, in the Introduction to the Shu, p. 7, that that edict was in force for less than a quarter of a century.
Sze-ma Khien says that this barbarous practice began with Mu's predecessor, with whom sixty-six persons were buried alive, and that one hundred and seventy-seven in all were buried with Mu. The death of the last distinguished man of the House of Khin, the emperor , was subsequently celebrated by the entombment with him of all the inmates of his harem.
One of the acknowledged distinctions of Mencius is his acquaintance with the odes, his quotations from which are very numerous; and Hsuen Khing survived the extinction of the Kau dynasty, and lived on into the times of Khin. The Shih was all recovered, after the fires of Khin.
In course of time Khin, as is well known, superseded the dynasty of Kau, having gradually moved its capital more and more to the east. The people of Khin were, no doubt, mainly composed of the wild tribes of the west. There is no difficulty or difference in the interpretation of this piece; and it brings us down to B.C. 621.
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