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Han shih wai chuan

Han Ying's Illustrations of the didactic application of the Classic of songs
  
  
  
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15[1]

With others generous and within himself strict; putting himself
in harmony with the right,[2] he was strict with himself without


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being strict with others; not uneasy though [his] good qualities
were not appreciated: such was the conduct of Ch`ü Po-yü.
Hence those who were fathers wanted him for a son, and those
who were sons wanted him for a father; princes wanted him for
a subject, and subjects wanted him for a prince. His fame was
bright among the feudal lords, and the empire longed for him.

The Ode says,[3]

That officer
Is the ornament of the country.
Such is the conduct of the superior man.

 
[1]

Cf. TTLC 6.9a; Chia-yü 3.10b.

[2]

Wang Yin-chih (Ching i shu wên sec. [OMITTED] 6b) would emend [OMITTED] to [OMITTED]
in the meaning of "be at rest in," since that is the reading in Ssŭ-ma Chên's quotation
in his com. on Shih chi 67.1b. Yüeh (Ch`ün-ching p`ing-i 17.22a) believes
that [OMITTED] is a corruption of [OMITTED], which occurs in Shang shu 9.14b interchanged with
[OMITTED], defined in Êrh ya 1.14b as "in harmony." I have followed Yüeh. (Chao 51.)

[3]

Shih 133 No. 80/3.