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Part 4 · Reading · lecture 15 · 3 groups · not yet coveredThe Documents and the Rites

The video for this lecture is still in production. For now this page gives the text, the base-edition pages, a recording and a translation.

有典謨,有訓誥,有誓命,書之奧。我周公,作周禮,著六官,存治體。大小戴,注禮記,述聖言,禮樂備。
Text from Yikonglu's Father's Lecture Notes, checked line by line against the base edition, Wang Xiang's Sanzijing xungu (1831 Japanese reprint). The page scans are from that edition; click a group to frame it on the page.

TrTranslation

有典謨,有訓誥,有誓命,書之奧。
There are canons and counsels, instructions and announcements, oaths and commands: these are the depths of the Documents.

我周公,作周禮,著六官,存治體。
Our Duke of Zhou wrote the Rites of Zhou, setting out the six ministries and preserving the framework of government.

大小戴,注禮記,述聖言,禮樂備。
The Elder and Younger Dai annotated the Record of Rites, passing on the sages' words, and ritual and music were made complete.

Draft translation; it will be revised when the lecture is filmed.

From the Father's Lecture Notes

The last lecture said which the Six Classics are; this one looks more closely at two of them: what the Documents contain, and who set down the Rites. The Book of Documents is really a collection of state papers in six forms: canons, counsels, instructions, announcements, oaths and commands. A child understands that at once.

Translated from Yikonglu's Father's Lecture Notes for the Three Character Classic, written for a parent teaching a child.

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