THE SHIH KING OR BOOK OF POETRY: ALL THE PIECES AND STANZAS IN IT ILLUSTRATING THE RELIGIOUS VIEWS AND PRACTICES OF THE WRITERS AND THEIR TIMES. Translated by James Legge From the Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 3 First Published 1879 Scanned at www.sacred-texts.com August-September 2000 THE SHIH KING OR BOOK OF POETRY. INTRODUCTION. CHAPTER I. THE NAME AND CONTENTS OF THE CLASSIC. 1. Among the Chinese classical books next after the Shû in point of antiquity comes the Shih or Book of Poetry. The meaning of the character Shih. The character Shû, as formed by the combination of two others, one of which signified 'a pencil,' and the other 'to speak,' supplied, we saw in its structure, an indicat…
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