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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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King Ch`êng of Ch`u[2] was reading in the hall, and at work
below was Lun-pien,[3] who asked, "What is the book Your Highness
is reading?"

King Ch`êng said, "It is a book of the Former Sages."

Lun-pien said, "It is certainly only the dregs of the Former
Sages, and not their essence."

King Ch`êng said, "What grounds have you for saying that?"

Lun-pien said, "Let us put it in terms of the wheels I make.
With the compass I make them round, and with a square I make
them straight. These [techniques] I can pass on to my sons and

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grandsons. But when it comes to bringing three pieces of wood
together, there is a response in the heart and a movement in the
body which there is no way to transmit. Hence what has been
transmitted is certainly nothing but the dregs. Thus it is possible
to examine[4] the methods of T`ang and Yü,[5] but there is no
attaining to their illumination of men's hearts. The Ode says,[6]

The doings of High Heaven
Have neither sound nor smell.

Who can attain to this?"

[1]

Modified from Chuang-tzŭ 4.7a-b. Huai-nan tzŭ 12.7a-b follows Chuang-tzŭ.

[2]

For [OMITTED] both Chuang-tzŭ and Huai-nan tzŭ have [OMITTED].

[3]

[OMITTED] i.e., "wheelwright." B, C have [OMITTED] for [OMITTED].

[4]

For [OMITTED] CHy and D have [OMITTED] "changed."

[5]

Yao and Shun.

[6]

Shih 431 No. 235/7.