"They attached strings to wood to make bows, and sharpened wood to make
arrows. The use of bows and arrows is to keep the Empire in awe."
The son and successor of Ho Lu. He was finally defeated and overthrown by
Kou chien, King of Yüeh, in 473 B.C. See post.
King Yen of Hsu, a fabulous being, of whom Sun Hsing-yen says in his
preface: "His humanity brought him to destruction."
The passage I have put in brackets is omitted in the T’u Shu, and may
be an interpolation. It was known, however to Chang Shou-chieh of the
T’ang dynasty, and appears in the T’ai P’ing Yu Lan.
Ts’ao Kung seems to be thinking of the first part of chap. II,
perhaps especially of § 8.
See chap. XI.
On the other hand, it is noteworthy that Wu Tzŭ, which is not in 6
chapters, has 48 assigned to it in the Han Chih. Likewise, the Chung Yung is
credited with 49 chapters, though now only in one only. In the case of very
short works, one is tempted to think that p’ien might simply mean
"leaves."
Yeh Shih of the Sung dynasty [1151-1223].
He hardly deserves to be bracketed with assassins.
See Chapter 7, § 27 and Chapter 11, § 28.
See Chapter 11, § 28. Chuan Chu is the abbreviated form of his name.