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PT. III. SECT.IV.
THE WRITINGS OF KWANG-3ZE.
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BOOK XXVI.
Part III. SECTION IV.
Wâi Wa, or What comes from Without ?.'
1. What comes from without cannot be determined beforehand. So it was that Lung-făng was killed; Pi-kan immolated; and the count of Ki (made to feign himself) mad, (while) O-lâi dieds, and Kieh and Kâu both perished. Rulers all wish their ministers to be faithful, but that faithfulness may not secure their confidence; hence Wa Yün became a wanderer along the Kiang 4, and Khang Hung died in Shů, where (the people) preserved his blood for three years, when it became changed into green jade 5. Parents all wish their sons to be filial, but that filial duty may not secure their love; hence
1 See vol. xxxix, p. 155.
2 The name of Kwan Lung-făng, a great officer of Kieh, the tyrant of Hsiâ ;-see Bk. IV, par. I, et al.
SA scion of the line of Khin whose fortunes culminated in Shih Hwang-Tî. O-lâi assisted the tyrant of Shang, and was put to death by king Wa of Kâu.
The famous Wa Zze-hsü, the hero of Revenge, who made his escape along the Kiang, in about B.C. 512, to Wů, after the murder of his father and elder brother by the king of Khů.
See Bk. X, par. 2. In the 30-kwan, under the third year of duke Ai, it is related that the people of Kâu killed Khang Hung; but nothing is said of this being done in Shů, or of his blood turning to green jade! This we owe to the Khun Khill of Lü.
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