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Outside the palace were the altars appropriate to the spirits of the four quarters of the land, the 'great' or royal altar being peculiar to the kings, though the one built by Than-fu is here so named. Thus though he could not prevent the rage of his foes , He did not let fall his own fame. The hordes of the Khwan disappeared, Startled and panting.
According to this ode then, up to the time of Than-fu, the Kau people had only had the dwellings here described; but this is not easily reconciled with other accounts, or even with other stanzas of this piece. This lady is known as Thai-kiang, the worthy predecessor of Thai-zan.
Was like an eagle on the wing, Assisting king Wu, Who at one onset smote the great Shang. 'The ancient duke Than-fu' was the grandfather of king Wan, and was canonized by the duke of Kau as 'king Thai. As mentioned in a note on p. 316, he was the first of his family to settle in Kau, removing there from Pin. the site of their earlier settlement, 'the country about the Khue and the Khi.
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.
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.
King Thai was the grandfather of king Wan, and, before he received that title, was known as 'the ancient duke Than-fu. In B.C. 1327, he moved with his followers from Pin, an earlier seat of his House, and settled in the plain of Khi, about fifty li to the north-east of the present district city of Khi-shan, in Shen-hsi. May their descendants ever preserve it!
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.
Kau Kiang is 'the lady Kiang' of ode 3, the wife of Than-fu or king Thai, who came with him from Pin. A wife becoming the House of Kau. Thai Sze inherited her excellent fame, And from her came a hundred sons . He conformed to the example of his ancestors, And their spirits had no occasion for complaint.
Than-fu Made for them kiln-like huts and caves, Ere they had yet any houses . The ancient duke Than-fu Came in the morning, galloping his horses, Along the banks of the western rivers, To the foot of mount Khi ; And there he and the lady Kiang Came and together looked out for a site. The responses were there to stay and then; And they proceeded there to build .
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