{"collection":"cfu","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cfu/sbe03/sbe03163.htm","path":"cfu/sbe03/sbe03163.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cfu/sbe03/sbe03163.htm","text":"The state of Wei was reduced to extremity by an irruption of some northern hordes in B.C. 660, and had nearly disappeared from among the states of K\u00e2u. Under the marquis Wei, known in history as duke W\u0103n, its fortunes revived, and he became a sort of second founder of the state.\nWhen Ting culminated (at night-fall) 3 He began to build the palace at Kh\u00fb 4, Determining}\nits aspects by means of the sun. He built the palace at Kh\u00fb. He planted about it hazel and chesnut trees, The \u00ce, the Thung, the \u021cze, and the varnish tree. Which, when cut down, might afford materials for lutes.\nHe ascended those old walls, And thence surveyed (the site of) Kh\u00fb. He surveyed Kh\u00fb and Thang 1, With the lofty hills and high elevations about. He descended and examined the mulberry trees. He then divined by the tortoise-shell, and got a favourable response 2; And thus the issue has been truly good.\n436:3 Ting is the name of a small space in the heavens, embracing \u03b1 Markab and another star of Pegasus. Its culminating at night-fall was the signal that the labours of husbandry were over for the year, and that building operations should be taken in hand. Great as was the urgency for the building of his new capital, duke W\u0103n would not take it in hand till the proper time for such a labour was arrived.\n436:4 Kh\u00fb, or Kh\u00fb-khi\u00fb, was the new capital of Wei, in the present district of Kh\u0103ng-w\u00fb, department \u021ch\u00e2o-k\u00e2u, Shan-tung.\n437:1 Thang was the name of a town, evidently not far from Kh\u00fb.\n437:2 We have seen before how divination was resorted to on occasion of new undertakings, especially in proceeding to rear a city.","title":"SBE 3: Shi King: Lessons from the States: Book IV. The Od...","type":"page"}