Follow us on Facebook to receive important updates Follow us on Twitter to receive important updates Follow us on sina.com's microblogging site to receive important updates Follow us on Douban to receive important updates
Chinese Text Project
Simplified Chinese version
Back Forward
Daoism -> Zhuangzi -> Miscellaneous Chapters -> What comes from Without -> 4

》、《Some literati, students of the Odes and Ceremonies, were breaking open a mound over a grave.
The superior among them spoke down to the others,
'Day is breaking in the east;
?” how is the thing going on?'
The younger men replied,
'We have not yet opened his jacket and skirt,
but there is a pearl in the mouth.
As it is said in the Ode,
The bright, green grain
Is growing on the sides of the mound.
While living, he gave nothing away;
?’Why, when dead, should he hold a pearl in his mouth?"'
Thereupon they took hold of the whiskers
and pulled at the beard,
while the superior introduced a piece of fine steel into the chin,
and gradually separated the jaws,
!” so as not to injure the pearl in the mouth.


Enjoy this site? Please help.Site design and content copyright 2006-2024. When quoting or citing information from this site, please link to the corresponding page or to https://ctext.org/ens. Please note that the use of automatic download software on this site is strictly prohibited, and that users of such software are automatically banned without warning to save bandwidth. 沪ICP备09015720号-3Comments? Suggestions? Please raise them here.