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 xl.
BK. XII.
which were struck1; the sounding stone of jade; the instruments rubbed or struck, (to regulate the commencement and close of the music) 2; the great lute and great cithern; the medium lute and little citherns: -the musical instruments of the four dynasties.
22. The temple of the duke of Lû was maintained from generation to generation like that of (king) Wăn (in the capital of Kâu), and the temple of duke Wa in the same way like that of (king) W04.
23. They had the hsiang (school) of the lord of Yü, in connexion with which were kept the stores of (sacrificial) rice"; the hsü school of the sovereign of Hsiâ; the school of Yin, in which the blind were
so that it is not worth while to reproduce them here. There is a figure also of the reed pipe, which can only have been something a little superior to the early 'oaten pipe' of the west.
1 This also is represented in the Khien-lung edition; but how anything like music could be brought from the pillows I do not know. The two characters, supposed to give the name, are found, perhaps, in the Shu, II, iv, 9, used with verbal force of playing on the lute. · The KQ and Yü; see vol. xxvii, pages 219 and 273.
The invention of the lute and cithern is ascribed to Fu-hsî. They are represented thus
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• The duke of La here is the first duke, Po-khin (B.C. 11151063). Duke Wa was the ninth duke (8.c. 826-817).
As a lesson, it is said, of filial duty.
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