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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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There is great loyalty, secondary loyalty, inferior loyalty, and
there is treason to the state.[2] Enveloping a prince with the True
Way so as to reform him constitutes great loyalty. Stirring up a
prince with virtue so as to assist him constitutes secondary loyalty.
Holding up the right to censure the wrong so as to provoke the
prince[3] constitutes inferior loyalty. To be without consideration
for the public or for duty (i),[4] to be weakly complaisant and

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grossly lax[5] so as to assure one's salary and to support one's
friends[6] —this constitutes treason to the state.

Such a relation as that of the Duke of Chou to King Ch`êng can
be called one of great loyalty. That of Kuan Chung to Duke
Huan can be called one of secondary loyalty. That of [Wu] Tzŭ-hsü
to Fu-ch`ai can be called one of inferior loyalty. That of
Ts`ao Ch`u-lung to [the tyrant] Chou[7] can be called traitorous.
These all are ways of acting of ministers. Good or ill fortune comes
accordingly as they are worthy or unworthy. The Ode says,[8]

He does not discharge his duties,[9]
But only creates distress to the king.

[1]

From Hsün-tzŭ 9.6a-b, with minor verbal changes and the addition of the conclusion
and quotation from the Ode.

[2]

Ch`u-hsüeh chi 17.8b-9a begins with [OMITTED] "There are three ways of
loyalty." (Chao 102.)

[3]

B, C, D lack [OMITTED], which Chou and CHy add from Hsün-tzŭ. CHy follows TPYL
418.2a and writes [OMITTED] "dies for it" for [OMITTED]. Ch`u-hsüeh chi, loc. cit., has [OMITTED],
and Hsün-tzŭ has [OMITTED]. (Chao 103.) Yang Liang explains, "Because he gives his
prince the reputation of harming sages, it constitutes inferior loyalty."

[4]

[OMITTED]: delete [OMITTED] with Chou.

[5]

Read [OMITTED] for [OMITTED] as in Hsün-tzŭ. (Chao.)

[6]

Chou adds [OMITTED], which is lacking in the other texts, from Hsün-tzŭ; CHy and Chao
would also add it.

[7]

Chou quotes SY 10.16a (after Yang Liang), where a Ch`u-lung is mentioned as
tso-shih [OMITTED] to Chieh, and on the basis of which would emend [OMITTED] to [OMITTED]. Wang
Hsien-ch`ien, however, points out that Hsün-tzŭ 10.10b mentions Ts`ao Ch`u-lung as
belonging to the Shang, and so discredits the SY version. (Chao.)

[8]

Shih 341 No. 198/3.

[9]

For [OMITTED] B, C have [OMITTED] as in Mao shih. (CHy.)