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SHU-KHI-SIAU-PEN-K'I-KING
Shu-khi, a worthy, but not a True Man, 39, 239, 239 sq. n.; declines to take office at the court of Wû, 40, 163-5; died of starvation, 40, 173. Shû King, the Book of Historical Documents, 3, xv, 1 sq.; The four S.' or Books of the Four Philosophers, 3, xx; an existing collection of documents before Confucius, 3, 2 sq.; number of documents in it, 3,3 sq.; its sources, 3, 4-6; its recovery after the destruction by the tyrant of Khin, 3, 7-11; its genuineness, 3, 10 sq.; credibility of the records in it, 3, 12-20; translated, 3, 31-272. Shu-kung Khien on mourning rites, 27, 200. Shu-kung Phî instructs his son 3ze-liû on mourning rites, 27, 200,
200 n.
Shun of Yü, spoken of as Tî, 3, xxvii-xxix, 256; 28, 343 sq.; records of the reign of S. in the Shû later and more legendary, though based on ancient documents, 3, 13-15; becomes Yâo's minister, 3, 14; 39, 331; a historical personage, 3, 19; period of Yâo and S., their good reign, 3, 24-7; 39, 359, 386; 40, 183, 279; appointed by Yão to assuage the inundation, and to be his successor, 3, 35 sq., 38; 39, 315; his dynastic designation Yü, 3, 37; 'The Canon of S.' translated, 3, 37-45; his great virtues, 3, 38; 28, 339; meaning of his names, 3, 38, 38 n.; his excellent administration and government, 3, 38-45, 258 sq.; 28, 302, 343 sq., 343 n., 418; his death, 3, 45; conversations between S. and his ministers, 3, 46-8, 57-62; appoints Yii to be his successor, 3, 48-51; 27, 396; 39, 359, 380; charges himself with his parents' guilt, 3, 52, 52 n.; his anxiety about Hwan-tâu and the lord of Miâo, 3, 54; Yâo and S. the ideals of kings, 3, 118; 39, 282, 319; 40, 120; Yâo and S. established a hundred officers, a crowd of ministers, 3, 227; 40, 171; called Hwang Ti, 3, 256, 256 n.; restrained and extinguished the people of Miâo, 3, 256 sq.; Hwang
Tî, Yâo, and S., their work for civilization, 16, 383-5; his three wives not buried in the same grave with him, 27, 132, 132 n.; made the lute with five strings, 28, 105, 105 n.; his sacrifices, 28, 201; deserves ancestor-worship, 28, 208; his great filial piety, 28, 308; ways of Yâo and S. handed down by Confucius, 28, 326; disturbed the world by his benevolence and righteousness, 39, 139, 272, 295, 295 n.; dialogue between Yão and S., 39, 190; acted according to the Tâo, 39, 210; a sovereign, and a perfect man, 39, 225; was not equal to the ruler of the line of Thâi, 39, 259; served Phû-î-zze as his master, 39, 259 n.; instructs Yão as to what a king ought to be, 39, 338; Yâo and S., the lords of Thang and Yü, 39, 370, 370 n.; the ways of Hwang-Ti, Yâo, and S., 40, 7; when about to die, instructs Yü, 40, 35 sq.; did not trouble his mind about death, and therefore was able to influence others, 40, 50, 50 n.; his palace, 40, 73; Yâo and S. did not benefit the world, the greatest disorder was planted in their times, 40, 76 sq., 76 n.; an example of the grasping and crooked, 40, 109 sq.; proposes to resign his throne to 3ze-kâu Kih-po, Shan Küan, and a farmer of Shih-hû, 40, 149 sq.; offers his throne to the northerner Wû-kâi, 40, 161 sq.; Yâo and S. possessed the whole kingdom, 40, 170; was not filial, 40, 173; banished his halfbrother, 40, 178; had his Tâ Shâo music, 40, 218; and Khăng about the Tâo, 40, 292. See also Yão,
and Yü.
Shû-r, famous cook, 39, 274, 274 n. Shû-shan the Toeless, a Tâoist sage, 39, 228 sq. Shu-sun Thung, a scholar of Khin, 27, 19, 19 n. Shu-sun Wû-shû, an officer of Lû, 27, 146; 28, 156, 156 n. Shû Tan, brother of King Wû, 40, 163.
Shu-yü and Kâo Wăn-jze, 27, 199. Siau-pen-k'i-king, a life of Buddha, 19, xxiii.
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