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五帝本纪 - Annals of the Five Emperors

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21 五帝本纪:
舜年二十以孝闻。三十而帝尧问可用者,四岳咸荐虞舜,曰可。于是尧乃以二女妻舜以观其内,使九男与处以观其外。舜居妫汭,内行弥谨。尧二女不敢以贵骄事舜亲戚,甚有妇道。尧九男皆益笃。舜耕历山,历山之人皆让畔;渔雷泽,雷泽上人皆让居;陶河滨,河滨器皆不苦窳。一年而所居成聚,二年成邑,三年成都。尧乃赐舜絺衣,与琴,为筑仓廪,予牛羊。瞽叟尚复欲杀之,使舜上涂廪,瞽叟从下纵火焚廪。舜乃以两笠自捍而下,去,得不死。后瞽叟又使舜穿井,舜穿井为匿空旁出。舜既入深,瞽叟与象共下土实井,舜从匿空出,去。瞽叟、象喜,以舜为已死。象曰:“本谋者象。”象与其父母分,于是曰:“舜妻尧二女,与琴,象取之。牛羊仓廪予父母。”象乃止舜宫居,鼓其琴。舜往见之。象鄂不怿,曰:“我思舜正郁陶!”舜曰:“然,尔其庶矣!”舜复事瞽叟爱弟弥谨。于是尧乃试舜五典百官,皆治。
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When Shun was twenty years old he was noted for his filial piety, and when he was thirty the Emperor Yao asked if he was fit to reign. The presidents united in bringing Shun of Yu forward as an able man, so Yao gave him his two daughters in marriage in order to observe his conduct at home, and bade his nine sons put him in charge of a post so as to note his behaviour abroad. Shun lived within the bend of the Kuei river, and was especially careful. Yao's two daughters did not dare, on account of their rank, to be proud, but waited on Shun's relations, and were constant in their wifely duties, while Yao's nine sons became more and more generous. When Shun ploughed on Li mountain, the inhabitants yielded the boundaries; when he fished in Thunder lake, the men on the lake yielded to him the best place; and when he made pots on the bank of the river, his vessels had no holes or flaws in them. If he dwelt in a place for a year he formed an assemblage, in two years it became a town, and in three a metropolis. Yao gave Shun clothes made of fine grass-cloth, and a lute, and built him a granary and shed for his oxen and sheep. Gusou again tried to kill Shun by making him go up and plaster the roof of the granary, while he set fire to it from below, but Shun, protecting himself from the fire with a couple of bamboo hats, came down and escaped with his life. Gusou after this told Shun to dig a well, which he did, making a secret tunnel at the side to get out at. When Shun had gone right in, Gusou and Xiang filled up the well with earth, but Shun came out by the secret passage. Gusou and Xiang rejoiced, thinking that Shun was dead, and Xiang said, 'The plot was mine, but I will go shares with my father and mother; I will take Shun's wives, Yao's two daughters, and the lute as my share, while the oxen, sheep, granary and shed shall belong to my parents.' He remained, however, in Shun's house playing on the lute, and when Shun went thither Xiang, startled and not well-pleased to see him, said, 'I was just thinking of you, and getting very anxious.' 'Quite so,' said Shun, 'and so you possessed yourself of all these things.' Shun again served Gusou, loved his brother, and was still more careful in his conduct. Yao thereupon tested Shun as to the five cardinal rules, and the various officers were under control.

24 五帝本纪:
舜入于大麓,烈风雷雨不迷,尧乃知舜之足授天下。尧老,使舜摄行天子政,巡狩。舜得举用事二十年,而尧使摄政。摄政八年而尧崩。三年丧毕,让丹朱,天下归舜。而禹、皋陶、契、后稷、伯夷、夔、龙、倕、益、彭祖自尧时而皆举用,未有分职。于是舜乃至于文祖,谋于四岳,辟四门,明通四方耳目,命十二牧论帝德,行厚德,远佞人,则蛮夷率服。舜谓四岳曰:“有能奋庸美尧之事者,使居官相事?”皆曰:“伯禹为司空,可美帝功。”舜曰:“嗟,然!禹,汝平水土,维是勉哉。”禹拜稽首,让于稷、契与皋陶。舜曰:“然,往矣。”舜曰:“弃,黎民始饥,汝后稷播时百谷。”舜曰:“契,百姓不亲,五品不驯,汝为司徒,而敬敷五教,在宽。”舜曰:“皋陶,蛮夷猾夏,寇贼奸轨,汝作士,五刑有服,五服三就;五流有度,五度三居:维明能信。”舜曰:“谁能驯予工?”皆曰垂可。于是以垂为共工。舜曰:“谁能驯予上下草木鸟兽?”皆曰益可。于是以益为朕虞。益拜稽首,让于诸臣朱虎、熊罴。舜曰:“往矣,汝谐。”遂以朱虎、熊罴为佐。舜曰:“嗟!四岳,有能典朕三礼?”皆曰伯夷可。舜曰:“嗟!伯夷,以汝为秩宗,夙夜维敬,直哉维静洁。”伯夷让夔、龙。舜曰:“然。以夔为典乐,教稚子,直而温,宽而栗,刚而毋虐,简而毋傲;诗言意,歌长言,声依永,律和声,八音能谐,毋相夺伦,神人以和。”夔曰:“于!予击石拊石,百兽率舞。”舜曰:“龙,朕畏忌谗说殄伪,振惊朕众,命汝为纳言,夙夜出入朕命,惟信。”舜曰:“嗟!女二十有二人,敬哉,惟时相天事。”三岁一考功,三考绌陟,远近众功咸兴。分北三苗。
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Shun went to the great plains at the foot of the mountains, and, amid violent wind, thunder, and rain, did not go astray. Yao then knew that Shun was fit to accept the empire, and being old, caused Shun to be associated with him in the government, and when he went on a tour of inspection Shun was promoted and employed in the administration of affairs for twenty years; and Yao having directed that he should be associated in the government, he was so associated for eight years. Yao died, and when the three years' mourning was over, Shun yielded to Danzhu, but the people of the empire turned to Shun. Now Yu, Gaoyao, Xie, Houji, Boyi, Kui, Long, Chui Yi, and Pengzu were all from the time of Yao promoted to office, but had not separate appointments. Shun having then proceeded to the temple of the accomplished ancestor, deliberated with the president of the four mountains, threw open the four gates, and was in direct communication with officers in all four quarters of the empire, who were eyes and ears to him. He ordered the twelve governors to talk of the Emperor's virtue, to be kind to the virtuous, and keep the artful at a distance, so that the barbarians of the south might lead on one another to be submissive. He said to the president of the four mountains, 'Is there anyone who can vigorously display his merits, aud beautify Yao's undertakings, and whom I can make prime minister?' They all said, 'There is Baron Yu, the superintendent of works,' he can beautify the Emperor's labours. Shun said, 'Ah! yes, Yu, you have put in order the water and the land, but in this matter you must exert yourself.' Yu did obeisance with his head to the ground, while declining in favour of Hou Ji (Millet), Xie, or Gaoyao. Shun said, 'Yes; but do you go and set about it.' Shun said, 'Qi, the black-haired people begin to be famished. Do you, Prince Millet, sow in their seasons the various kinds of grain.' He also said, 'Xie, the people do not love one another, and the five orders of relationship are not observed. You, as minister of instruction, must carefully diffuse abroad those five lessons of duty, but do so with gentleness.' He also said, 'Gaoyao, the southern barbarians are disturbing the summer region, while robbers, murderers, villains, and traitors abound. Do you, as minister of crime, exercise repression by use of the five kinds of punishment—for the infliction of which there are three appointed places—and the five banishments with their several places of detention, and the three degrees of distance. Be intelligent and you will inspire confidence.' Shun said, 'Who can direct the workmen?' They all said 'Chui can do it'; so he made Chui minister of works. Shun said, 'Who can superintend my uplands and lowlands, pastures and woods, birds and beasts?' They all said, 'Yi is the man'; so Yi was made imperial forester. Yi did obeisance with his head to the ground, and declined in favour of the officials Fir, Tiger, Black Bear, and Grizzly Bear. Shun said, 'Go and act harmoniously.' Fir, Tiger, Black Bear, and Grizzly Bear were accordingly his assistants. Shun said, 'Ah! president of the four mountains, is there anyone who can superintend the three ceremonies?' They all said, 'Baron Yi is the man.' Shun said, 'Ah! Baron Yi, I will make you arranger of the ancestral temple. Day and night be careful, be upright, be pure.' Baron Yi declined in favour of Kui or Long, but Shun said, 'Let it be so,' and made Kui director of music and teacher of youth. 'Be straightforward' (he added) 'and yet mild; lenient and yet stern; firm, yet not tyrannical; impetuous, yet not arrogant. Poetry gives expression to the thought, and singing is the prolonged utterance of that expression. Notes accompany that utterance, and are harmonized themselves by the pitch-pipes. The eight kinds of instruments can be adjusted, so that one shall not take from or interfere with another, and spirits and men are thereby brought into harmony.' Kui said, 'Oh! I smite the stone; I tap the stone, and the various animals lead on one another to dance.' Shun said, 'Long, I dread slanderous speakers and injurious deceivers, who agitate and alarm my people. I appoint you minister of communication. Day and night you will issue and receive my orders, but be truthful.' Shun said, 'Ah! you twenty and two men, be reverent, and you will aid in their proper seasons the undertakings of heaven.' Every three years there was an examination of merits, and after three examinations there were degradations and promotions both far and near. The people's labours generally prospered, while the people of the three Miao tribes were divided and defeated.

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