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The writer was evidently in a poetic rapture as to what his ruler was, and would do. The piece is a genuine bardic effusion. The poet traces the lords of Lu to Khang Yueen and her son Hau-ki.
The Min Lao has been assigned to duke Mu of Shao, a descendant of duke Khang, the Shih of the Shu, the reputed author of the Khuean A, and was directed against king Li, B.C. 878 to 828. The people indeed are heavily burdened, But perhaps a little relief may be got for them. Let us cherish this centre of the kingdom, To secure the repose of the four quarters of it.
According to a statement in the Zo Kwan, this piece also was sung in connexion with the dance of Wu. The Preface says it was used in declarations of war, and in sacrificing to God and the Father of War. Perhaps it came to be used on such occasions; but we must refer it in the first place to the reign of king Khang. There is peace throughout our myriad regions.
The speaker in this piece is, by common consent, king Khang. The only question is as to the date of its composition, whether it was made for him, in his minority, on his repairing to the temple when the mourning for his father was completed, or after the expiration of the regency of the duke of Kau. The words 'little child, according to their usage, are expressive of humility and not of age.
In Jowai the practice is also to bet a lump sum, the amount being raised by subscription from amongst the competitors. More usual bets are, however, about one anna a head. The nong khang khnam and the men who prepare the targets receive presents from their respective sides.
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.
Donkia rises to the eastward of the pass, but its top is not visible. To the west, the beetling east summit of Kinchinjhow rises at two miles distance, 3000 to 4000 feet above the pass. A little south of it, and north of Chango Khang, the view extends through a gap in the Sebolah range, across the valley of the Lachen, to Kinchinjunga, distant forty-two miles.
By Yao or by Shun, Hsieh was invested with the principality of Shang, corresponding to the small department which is so named in Shen-hsi. Fourteenth in descent from him came Thien-Yi, better known as Khang Thang, or Thang the Successful, who dethroned the last descendant of the line of Hsia, and became the founder of a new dynasty.
I am the daughter of a certain Sië of Moun-hao; Sië is my name, likewise; and I was married to a young man of the Ping family, whose name was Khang. By this marriage I became related to your excellent patron; but my husband died soon after our wedding, and I have chosen this solitary place to reside in during the period of my widowhood."
IN this division we have thirty-one sacrificial odes of Kau, arranged in three decades, the third of which, however, contains eleven pieces. They belong mostly to the time of king Wan, the founder of the Kau dynasty, and to the reigns of his son and grandson, kings Wu and Khang. The decades are named from the name of the first piece in each. The First Decade, or that of Khing Miao.
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