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Han shih wai chuan

Han Ying's Illustrations of the didactic application of the Classic of songs

Han, Ying

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TABLE OF UNUSUAL ORTHOGRAPHIES

FINDING LIST

INDEX OF PROPER NAMES

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[The tyrant] Chou invented the punishment of the fiery [pit]
and the pillar.[2] The Prince Pi-kan said, "If, when his master is
outrageous, [the minister][3] does not remonstrate, he is not loyal.
If from fear of death he does not speak, he is not brave. If he sees
a fault, he objects, and if [his objections] go unheeded, he dies:
this is the height of loyalty."

Whereupon he remonstrated for three days without leaving the
court. Chou accordingly[4] put him to death. The Ode says,[5]

[The terrors of] Great Heaven are very excessive;
I shall take care[6] to commit no offence.

[1]

Hsin hsü 7.1b-2a is nearly identical. After the quotation from the Ode it adds,
"Is it not indeed pathetic that the innocent should die?" [OMITTED].

[2]

For [OMITTED] read [OMITTED] as in HFT 7.3a and 17.1b (Chao 101.) Cf. Shih chi 3.11a (Mém.
hist. 1.201, note 1) for a description.

[3]

Hsin hsü adds [OMITTED] after [OMITTED].

[4]

Read [OMITTED] with Hsin hsü for [OMITTED] "imprisoned him." As there is elsewhere no such
tradition concerning Pi-kan, [OMITTED] must be right. Possibly [OMITTED] is a contamination from
the next section.

[5]

Shih 340 No. 198/1.

[6]

[OMITTED] is generally taken as [OMITTED]; Legge translates, "But indeed I have committed no offence"; likewise Karlgren. Han Ying has put the line in a context requiring the more usual meaning of [OMITTED].