The Ancient History of China to the End of the Chóu DynastyColumbia University Press, 1908 - 383 páginas |
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ancestors ancient appears appointed army ascribed authority Bamboo Books barbarians became bronze brother called capital century B.C. ceremonial Ch'öng-wang Ch'u Ch'un-ts'iu Chang chariot Chau Chavannes chief China Chinese history Chinese literature Chinese race Chöng Chou Chóu dynasty Chóu-kung Chou-li Chou-sin Confucian Confucius court disciples Duke Huan Duke of Chóu Emperor Shun empire father followed Fu-hi Heaven Hién-yün historians history of China Hiung Hiung-nu Ho-nan Huang-ti Huns imperial Khotan king known Kuan-tzi later Lau-tzï legendary Mandarin Marquis Mencius minister nation native occupied officers original period philosopher placed on record political present princes province reign represented River rulers says seqq Shan-tung Shang dynasty Shi-king Shu-king Shun Si-wang-mu Siang Son of Heaven south-pointing sovereign Ssï-ma Ts'ién supposed territory throne tion tribes Ts'i Ts'in Tsin Tso-chuan views wang Weï Wön Wön-wang Wu-wang Yang Chu Yellow River Yüé
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Página 248 - When he was in the carriage, he did not turn his head quite round, he did not talk hastily, he did not point with his hands.
Página 293 - Do nothing, and all things will be done. I do nothing, and my people become good of their own accord. Abandon wisdom and discard knowledge, and the people will be benefited an hundredfold. The weak overcomes the strong, the soft overcomes the hard. All the world knows this ; yet none can act up to it. The softest things in the world override the hardest. That which has no substance enters where there is no fissure. And so I know that there is advantage in Inaction.
Página 56 - God nor the spirits of heaven and earth, neglecting also the temple of his ancestors, and not sacrificing in it. The victims and the vessels of millet all become the prey of wicked robbers, and still he says, ' The people are mine ; the heavenly appointment is mine,' never trying to correct his contemptuous mind.
Página 71 - The great God has conferred (even) on the inferior people a moral sense, compliance with which would show their nature invariably right.* To make them tranquilly pursue the course which it would indicate is the work of the sovereign...
Página 55 - Heaven and earth is the parent of all creatures; and of all creatures man is the most highly endowed.* The sincerely intelligent (among men) becomes the great sovereign; and the great sovereign is the parent of the people.
Página 95 - Your chief descendant on the other hand has not so many abilities and arts as I, and is not so capable of serving spiritual beings. And moreover he was appointed in the hall of God to extend his aid to the four quarters of the empire, so that he might establish your descendants in this lower world.
Página 75 - I once saw a father and son divining after one of the fashions of the present day. They tossed the bamboo roots, which came down in the unlucky positions for a dozen times in succession. At last a lucky cast was made. They looked into each other's faces, laughed heartily, and rose up, delighted, from their knees. The divination was now successful, and they dared not repeat it...
Página 242 - At first, my way with men was to hear their words, and give them credit for their conduct. Now my way is to hear their words, and look at their conduct. It is from Yu that I have learned to make this change.
Página 56 - ... people. He has burned and roasted the loyal and good. He has ripped up pregnant women. Great Heaven was moved with indignation, and charged my deceased father Wan to display its terrors; but he died before the work was completed.
Página 73 - parents when dead, should be sacrificed to according to propriety," was doubtless in accordance with a practice which had come down from the earliest times of the nation. The spirits of the departed were supposed to have a knowledge of the circumstances of their descendants, and to be able to affect them. Events of importance in a family were communicated to them before their shrines ; many affairs of government were transacted in the ancestral temple. When Yaou demitted to Shun the business of...