{"collection":"cfu","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cfu/sbe03/sbe03070.htm","path":"cfu/sbe03/sbe03070.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cfu/sbe03/sbe03070.htm","text":"IN this division we have thirty-one sacrificial odes of K\u00e2u, arranged in three decades, the third of which, however, contains eleven pieces. They belong mostly to the time of king W\u0103n, the founder of the K\u00e2u dynasty, and to the reigns of his son and grandson, kings W\u00fb and Kh\u0103ng. The decades are named from the name of the first piece in each.\nChinese critics agree in assigning this piece to the sacrifice mentioned in the Sh\u00fb, in the end of the thirteenth Book of Part V, when, the building of Lo being finished, king Kh\u0103ng came to\nthe new city, and offered a red bull to W\u0103n, and the same to W\u00fb. It seems to me to have been sung in honour of W\u0103n, after the service was completed. This determination of the occasion of the piece being accepted, we should refer it to B.C. 1108.\nOh! solemn is the ancestral temple in its pure stillness. Reverent and harmonious were the distinguished assistants 1; Great was the number of the officers 2:--(All) assiduous followers of the virtue of (king W\u0103n). In response to him in heaven, Grandly they hurried about in the temple. Distinguished is he and honoured, And will never be wearied of among men.\n314:1 These would be the princes who were assembled on the occasion, and assisted the king in the service.\n314:2 That is, the officers who took part in the libations, prayers, and other parts of the sacrifice.","title":"SBE 3: Shih King: Odes of the Temple and the Altar: II. T...","type":"page"}