{"collection":"cfu","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cfu/sbe03/sbe03135.htm","path":"cfu/sbe03/sbe03135.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cfu/sbe03/sbe03135.htm","text":"King W\u0103n is famous; Yea, he is very famous. What he sought was the repose (of the people); What he saw was the completion (of his work). A sovereign true was king W\u0103n!\nKing W\u0103n received the appointment (from Heaven), And achieved his martial success. Having overthrown Khung 1. He fixed his (capital) city in F\u0103ng 2. A sovereign true was king W\u0103n!\nHe repaired the walls along the (old) moat. His establishing himself in F\u0103ng was according to (the pattern of his forefathers), It was not that he was in haste to gratify his wishes;--It was to show the filial duty that had come down to him. A sovereign true was the royal prince!\nHis royal merit was brightly displayed By those walls of F\u0103ng. There were collected (the sympathies of the people of) the four quarters, Who regarded the royal prince as their protector. A sovereign true was the royal prince!\nThe F\u0103ng-water flowed on to the east (of the city), Through the meritorious labour of Y\u00fc. There were collected (the sympathies of the people of) the four quarters, Who would have the great king as their ruler. A sovereign true was the great king 1!'\nIn the capital of H\u00e2o he built his hall with its circlet of water 2. From the west to the east, From the south to the north, There was not a thought but did him homage. A sovereign true was the great king!\nHe examined and divined, did the king, About settling in the capital of H\u00e2o. The tortoise-shell decided the site 3, And king W\u00fb completed the city. A sovereign true was king W\u00fb!\nBy the F\u0103ng-water grows the white millet 1;--Did not king W\u00fb show wisdom in his employment of officers? He would leave his plans to his descendants, And secure comfort and support to his son. A sovereign true was king W\u00fb!\n394:1 As related in ode 7.\n394:2 F\u0103ng had, probably, been the capital of Khung, and W\u0103n p. 395 removed to it, simply making the necessary repairs and alterations. This explains how we find nothing about the divinations which should have preceded so important a step as the founding of a new capital.\n395:1 The writer has passed on to W\u00fb, who did actually become king.\n395:2 See on the third of the Praise Odes of L\u00fb in Part IV.\n395:3 H\u00e2o was built by W\u00fb, and hence we have the account of his divining About the site and the undertaking.\n396:1 'The white millet,' a valuable species, grown near the F\u0103ng, suggests to the writer the idea of all the men of ability whom W\u00fb collected around him.","title":"SBE 3: Shih King: Major Odes, First Decade: Ode 10. The W...","type":"page"}