Record of Daily Knowledge and Collected Poems and Essays by Yanwu Gu

Author:Yanwu Gu
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: LCO004000, Literary Collections/Asian, REL018000, Religion/Buddhism/History
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2016-11-08T05:00:00+00:00

27.9 NOTES ON THE XUNZI

In the Xunzi [there is], “…will be gored and broken like a drooping deer, dripping and wet, and will retreat.” The commentary says, “The meaning [of these words] is not clear, but they all indicate the appearance of something broken down and scattered.”57 Nowadays, if one examines Dou Gui’s biography in the Old Tang History, [there is], “Gao Zu spoke to Gui, saying, ‘On your entering Shu, those on carriages and horses were completely exterminated by your twenty followers. My broken and scattered carriages are not adequate to give to a duke.’ ”58 In Li Mu’s biography in the Northern History, [there is], “In the battle at Mang Shan, Emperor Wen of Zhou’s horse was struck by a flying arrow, which startled it, causing it to bolt and throw him to the ground. Mu dismounted, struck Wen of Zhou on the back with his whip, and reviled him, saying, ‘You defeated soldier! So where is your officer? Do you alone stop this?’ ”59 In Zhou and Sui times men still used these words.

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