Text of Confucianism Part 01

SR No.: 007675
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: James Legge
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1879
Total Pages: 2829
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 50 MB

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THE LÎ xi.
BK. IV.
SECTION II. Part I.
1. In the first month of summer, the sun is in P1; the constellation culminating at dusk being Yi, and that culminating at dawn Wu-nü?.
2. Its days are ping and ting?
3. Its divine ruler is Yen Ti, and the attending) spirit is KA-yungs
4. Its creatures are the feathered.
5. Its musical note is Kih, and its pitch-tube is the Kung Lük.
6. Its number is seven'. Its taste is acrid. Its smell is that of things burning.
1 Pi is the name for the Hyades, or, more exactly, of six stars in Hyades, with u and of Taurus; it is the nineteenth of the Chinese constellations. Yî is crater. WO-nu is not so well identified. Williams says that it is a star near the middle of Capricorn,' but others say in Hercules. The R Yå makes it the same as Hsü-nü E *). Probably it was a star in the constellation Nu of Aquarius.
· The third and fourth stem characters of the cycle.
* Yen Tî ('the blazing Tî') is the dynastic designation of Shăn Năng, generally placed next to Fa-hsî in Chinese chronology, and whose date cannot be assigned later than the thirty-first century B.C. KQ-yung in one account is placed before Fa-hsî; in a second, as one of the ministers of Hwang Ti; and in a third, as a son of Khwan-hsü (B.C. 2510-2433). He was the Director of Fire,' and had the presidency of summer.
* Kih is the fourth of the notes of the Chinese scale, and Kung Lü (the middle Spine') the third of the tubes that give the six lower accords.
• The number of fire is 2, which + 5, that of earth, = 7.
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