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Not at all unlikely is the view of Kang Hsuean, that the sacrifice was in the third year after the death of Wu-ting and offered to him in the temple of Hsieh, the ancestor of the Shang dynasty. The father of Shang is Hsieh, who has already been mentioned.
The editors of the imperial edition of the Shih, of the present dynasty, say we need not believe the legends; the important point is to believe that the birth of Hsieh was specially ordered by Heaven. The descendant of Wu-ting Is a martial sovereign, equal to every emergency. The royal domain of a thousand li Is where the people rest; But the boundaries that reach to the four seas commence there.
Ku Hsi, however, in his note on it, says nothing about Wu-ting, but simply that the piece belonged to the sacrifices in the ancestral temple, tracing back the line of the kings of Shang to its origin, and to its attaining the sovereignty of the kingdom.
He will bless us with the eyebrows of longevity, With the grey hair and wrinkled face in unlimited degree. These lines are descriptive of the feudal princes, who were present and assisted at the sacrificial service. THE HSUeAN NIAO If this ode were not intended to do honour to Wu-ting, the Kao Zung of Shang, we cannot account for the repeated mention of him in it.
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