{"collection":"cfu","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cfu/sbe03/sbe03078.htm","path":"cfu/sbe03/sbe03078.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cfu/sbe03/sbe03078.htm","text":"The Chinese critics differ in the interpretation of this ode, the Preface and older scholars restricting it to a sacrifice to king W\u00fb, while K\u00fb Hs\u00ee and others find reference in it, as to me also seems most natural, to Kh\u0103ng and Khang, who succeeded him.\nThe arm of king W\u00fb was full of strength; Irresistible was his ardour. Greatly illustrious were Kh\u0103ng and Khang 1, Kinged by God.\nWhen we consider how Kh\u0103ng and Khang Grandly held all within the four quarters (of the kingdom), How penetrating was their intelligence!\nThe bells and drums sound in harmony; The sounding-stones and flutes blend their notes; Abundant blessing is sent down.\nBlessing is sent down in large measure. Careful and exact is all our deportment; We have drunk, and we have eaten, to the fall; Our happiness and dignity will be prolonged.\n319:1 If the whole piece be understood only of a sacrifice to W\u00fb, this line will have to be translated--'How illustrious was he, who completed (his great work), and secured its tranquillity.' We must deal similarly with the next line. This construction is very forced; nor is the text clear on the view of K\u00fb Hs\u00ee.","title":"SBE 3: Shih King: Odes of the Temple and the Altar: II. The Sacrificial Odes of K\u00e2u: Ode 9. The Kih King","type":"page"}