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Updated: August 5, 2024
Chan Tsin spoke to Mencius as follows: "The King of Chi once offered thee a present and thou declinedst it, but didst accept gifts offered at Sung and at Hsieh. Why this inconsistency? If it were right to refuse in the first case it was equally right to refuse in the other two. If it were right to accept in the latter two cases, it was equally right to accept in the first case."
Sze-ma Khien and Kang make Hsieh's birth more marvellous: The lady was bathing in some open place, when a swallow made its appearance, and dropt an egg, which she took and swallowed; and from this came Hsieh.
We saw in the Shu that the name Shang gave place to Yin after the time of Pan-kang, B.C. 1401 to 1374. 'great Ti sacrifice, when the principal object of honour would be the ancient Khu, the father of Hsieh, with Hsieh as his correlate, and all the kings of the dynasty, with the earlier lords of Shang, and their famous ministers and advisers, would have their places at the service.
You'd better therefore choose the subjects, while Ling Chou can fix the metre, and Ou Hsieh act as supervisor." "According to my ideas," Ying Ch'un chimed in, "we shouldn't yield to the wishes of any single person in the choice of themes and the settlement of the rhythm. What would really be fair and right would be to draw lots."
The philosopher answered, "I acted rightly and consistently. The gifts at Sung were to provide me with what was needed for a long journey which I was about to undertake. Why should I refuse such gifts when needed? At Hsieh I was in some personal danger and needed help to procure the means of self-defence. The gifts were to enable me to procure arms. Why should I have refused such needed help?
Ascending as high as Hsieh and Hau-ki, and descending through the prosperous eras of Yin and Kau to the times of decadence under kings Yu and Li, he selected in all 305 pieces, which he' sang over to his lute, to bring them into accordance with the musical style of the Shao, the Wu, the Ya, and the Fang. The writer of the Records of the Sui Dynasty.
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.
As for conceding to me the presidentship of the society, it won't be enough, of course, for me alone to preside; it will be necessary to invite two others to serve as vice-presidents; you might then enlist Ling Chou and Ou Hsieh, both of whom are cultured persons. The one to choose the themes and assign the metre, the other to act as copyist and supervisor.
It would be hard to say why Hsieh is here called 'the dark king. There may be an allusion to the legend about the connexion of the swallow, 'the dark bird, with his birth, He never was 'a king; but his descendants here represented him as such. All that is meant here is, that the territory of Shang was enlarged under Hsieh.
The Wang, an old Shansi family, had already provided two empresses, and was therefore strongly represented at court. The Yin had worked at first with the Hsieh, especially as the two families came from the same region, but afterwards the Yin went over to Huan Hsüan.
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