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《仲虺之诰》 | 英文翻译：理雅各（James Legge）[?] | 提到《仲虺之诰》的书籍 电子图书馆 |
| 仲虺之诰: | 汤归自夏，至于大坰，仲虺作诰。 | |
| 1 | 仲虺之诰: | 成汤放桀于南巢，惟有惭德。曰：“予恐来世以台为口实。” |
| Announcement of Zhong-hui:...: | When Tang the Successful was keeping Jie in banishment in Nan-chao, he had a feeling of shame on account of his conduct, and said, 'I am afraid that in future ages men will fill their mouths with me, (as an apology for their rebellious proceedings.)' | |
| 2 | 仲虺之诰: | 仲虺乃作诰，曰：“呜呼！惟天生民有欲，无主乃乱，惟天生聪明时乂，有夏昏德，民坠涂炭，天乃锡王勇智，表正万邦，缵禹旧服。兹率厥典，奉若天命。夏王有罪，矫诬上天，以布命于下。帝用不臧，式商受命，用爽厥师。简贤附势，寔繁有徒。肇我邦于有夏，若苗之有莠，若粟之有秕。小大战战，罔不惧于非辜。矧予之德，言足听闻。惟王不迩声色，不殖货利。德懋懋官，功懋懋赏。用人惟己，改过不吝。克宽克仁，彰信兆民。乃葛伯仇饷，初征自葛，东征，西夷怨；南征，北狄怨，曰：‘奚独后予？’攸徂之民，室家相庆，曰：‘徯予后，后来其苏。’民之戴商，厥惟旧哉！佑贤辅德，显忠遂良，兼弱攻昧，取乱侮亡，推亡固存，邦乃其昌。德日新，万邦惟怀；志自满，九族乃离。王懋昭大德，建中于民，以义制事，以礼制心，垂裕后昆。予闻曰：‘能自得师者王，谓人莫已若者亡。好问则裕，自用则小’。呜呼！慎厥终，惟其始。殖有礼，覆昏暴。钦崇天道，永保天命。” |
| Announcement of Zhong-hui:...: |
On this Zhong-hui made the following announcement: 'Oh! Heaven gives birth to the people with (such) desires. that without a ruler they must fall into all disorders; and Heaven again gives birth to the man of intelligence to regulate them. The sovereign of Xia had his virtue all-obscured, and the people were (as if they had fallen) amid mire and (burning) charcoal. Heaven hereupon gifted (our) king with valour and prudence, to serve as a sign and director to the myriad regions, and to continue the old ways of Yu. You are now (only) following the proper course, honouring and obeying the appointment of Heaven. The king of Xia was an offender, falsely and calumniously alleging the sanction of supreme Heaven, to spread abroad his commands among the people. On this account God viewed him with disapprobation, caused our Shang to receive his appointment, and employed (you) to enlighten the multitudes (of the people).' 'Contemners of the worthy and parasites of the powerful, many such followers he had indeed: (but) from the first our country was to the sovereign of Xia like weeds among the springing corn, and blasted grains among the good. (Our people), great and small, were in constant apprehension, fearful though they were guilty of no crime. How much more was this the case, when our (prince's) virtues became a theme (eagerly) listened to! Our king did not approach to (dissolute) music and women; he did not seek to accumulate property and wealth. To great virtue he gave great offices, and to great merit great rewards. He employed others as if (their excellences) were his own; he was not slow to change his errors. Rightly indulgent and rightly benevolent, from the display, (of such virtue), confidence was reposed in him by the millions of the people. 'When the earl of Ge showed his enmity to the provision-carriers, the work of punishment began with Ge. When it went on in the east, the wild tribes of the west murmured; when it went on in the south, those of the north murmured: they said, "Why does he make us alone the last?" To whatever people he went, they congratulated one another in their families, saying, "We have waited for our prince; our prince is come, and we revive." The people's honouring our Shang is a thing of long existence.' 'Show favour to the able and right-principled (among the princes), and aid the virtuous; distinguish the loyal, and let the good have free course. Absorb the weak, and punish the wilfully blind; take their states from the disorderly, and deal summarily with those going to ruin. When you (thus) accelerate the end of what is (of itself) ready to perish, and strengthen what is itself strong to live, how will the states all flourish! When (a sovereign's) virtue is daily being renewed, he is cherished throughout the myriad regions; when his mind is full (only) of himself, he is abandoned by the nine branches of his kindred. Exert yourself, O king, to make your virtue (still more) illustrious, and set up (the standard of) the Mean before the people. Order your affairs by righteousness; order your heart by propriety - so shall you transmit a grand example to posterity. I have heard the saying, "He who finds instructors for himself, comes to the supreme dominion; he who says that others are not equal to himself, comes to ruin. He who likes to put questions, becomes enlarged; he who uses only his own views, becomes smaller (than he was)." Oh! he who would take care for the end must be attentive to the beginning. There is establishment for the observers of propriety, and overthrow for the blinded and wantonly indifferent. To revere and honour the path prescribed by Heaven is the way ever to preserve the favouring appointment of Heaven.' |
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