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夏有禹，商有湯，周文武，稱三王。夏傳子，家天下，四百載，遷夏社。湯伐夏，國號商，六百載，至紂亡。周武王，始誅紂，八百載，最長久。TrTranslation
夏有禹，商有湯，周文武，稱三王。
Xia had Yu, Shang had Tang, Zhou had Wen and Wu: these are called the Three Kings.
夏傳子，家天下，四百載，遷夏社。
Xia passed the throne to a son, and the realm became one family's possession. After four hundred years, the altar of Xia was moved.
湯伐夏，國號商，六百載，至紂亡。
Tang overthrew Xia and named his state Shang. After six hundred years it fell under the tyrant Zhou.
周武王，始誅紂，八百載，最長久。
King Wu of Zhou began by putting the tyrant to death. His dynasty lasted eight hundred years, the longest of all.
Draft translation; it will be revised when the lecture is filmed.
From the Father's Lecture Notes
Four hundred, six hundred, eight hundred: these three numbers are the only sense of scale in this part, and the child should remember them. Every later dynasty is measured against them: Tang's three hundred years counts as long, Qin's dozen or so as short, all by comparison with these three.
Translated from Yikonglu's Father's Lecture Notes for the Three Character Classic, written for a parent teaching a child.
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