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In the crowd stood Coney, Buzzford, and Longways "Some difference between him now and when he zung at the Dree Mariners," said the first. "'Tis wonderful how he could get a lady of her quality to go snacks wi' en in such quick time." "True. Yet how folk do worship fine clothes!
The visitors would be the representatives of the lines of Hsia, Shun, and Yao. word in praise of Fung Zung, and the 'meritorious ancestor' of the first line is not to be got over. Still more clearly than in the case of the former ode does this appear to have been made by some one who had taken part in the service, for in line 4 he addresses the sacrificing king as 'you.
King Wan said, 'Alas! We speak of 'turning night into day. The tyrant of Shang turned day into night, Excesses, generally committed in darkness, were by him done openly. 2 These 'demon regions' are understood to mean the seat of the Turkic tribes to the north of China, known from the earliest times by various names-'The hill Zung, 'the northern Li, 'the Hsien-yun, &c.
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.
Ku Hsi says that the object of the sacrifice was Thang. The Preface assigns it to Thai Mau, the Kung Zung, or second of the three 'honoured Ones. But there is not a Dancing thus entered into the service as an accompaniment of the music. Two terms are employed; one denoting the movements appropriate to a dance Of war, the other those appropriate to a dance of peace.
But it so happened that at least all the odes of which Thai Zung was the subject were lost; and of the others we have only the small portion that has been mentioned above. Of how it is that we have even these, we have the following account in the Narratives of the States, compiled, probably, by a contemporary of Confucius.
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