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Updated: June 13, 2025
Yao, referred to above, gave instructions to his astronomers to determine the positions of the solstices and equinoxes, and they reported the names of the stars in the places occupied by the sun at these seasons, and in 2285 B.C. he gave them further orders.
So that old Chinese manvantara is gone after the Dragon Fo-hi and the Yellow Emperor, after the Man-Kings and the Earth-Kings and the Heaven-Kings; and Yao, Shun, and Yu the Great, and the kings of Hia, and Shang, and even Chow, are but names and shadows, Quo pater, Aeneas, quo dires Tullus et Ancus, we cannot make them interestingly alive.
"Something overhead!" and then the answer comes, "Keo yao!" "Stoop lower!" When the way is very uneven, you hear "Leo puh ping!" "The road is not level!" to which is replied, "Mon tien hsin!" "There are stones like stars!" followed by "Tien shan hsin To!" "Many stars in the sky!" with the response, "Ti hsia ken to!" "Many holes in the ground." Or perhaps at a bridge, "Hsio mo lan chao!"
The Emperor Yao, B.C. 2357-2255, built a temple for the worship of God, and also caused dances to be performed for the enjoyment of God on occasions of special sacrifice and communication with the spiritual world. After him, we reach the Emperor Shun, B.C. 2255-2205, in whose favour Yao abdicated. Additional Deities. God punishes the wicked and rewards the good.
On account of this feat he was considered advanced enough to be admitted to instruction in the doctrine. The Divine Archer This was Ch'ih-chiang Tzu-yü. He told the Emperor he was a skilful archer and could fly in the air on the wings of the wind. Yao, to test his skill, ordered him to shoot one of his arrows at a pine-tree on the top of a neighbouring mountain.
... From my student days, I, Yuan Shih-kai, have admired the example of the Emperors Yao and Shun, who treated the empire as a public trust, and considered that the record of a dynasty in history for good or ill is inseparably bound up with the public spirit or self-seeking by which it has been animated.
As in the first phase, the T'ien Kuan confers happiness, the Ti Kuan grants remission of sins, and the Shui Kuan delivers from evil or misfortune. The fourth phase consisted simply in the substitution by the priests for the abstract or time-principles of the three great sovereigns of ancient times, Yao, Shun, and Yü.
"Anyhow, he's as rotten full of fever as the rest of you," said the Infant, at length on the big divan. "And he's bringing a native servant with him. Stalky be an athlete, and tell Ipps to put him in the stable room." "Why? Is he a Yao like the fellow Wade brought here when your housekeeper had fits?" Stalky often visits the Infant, and has seen some odd things. "No.
King Khang, in B.C. 1107, invested his younger brother, called Shu-yue, with the territory where Yao was supposed to have ruled anciently as the marquis of Thang, in the present department of Thai-yuean, Shan-hsi, the fief retaining that ancient name. Subsequently the name of the state was changed to Zin, from the river Zin in the southern part of it. THE PAO YUe.
If dinner ain't ready I'm going to raise hell; and if it is ready I ain't going to eat a bite." The Chinese have put "Tipperary" into their own language, and native newspapers print the chorus as follows: Shih ko yuan lu tao Ti-po-lieh-li, Pi yao ti jih hsing tsou.
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