Ts'ao P'i Transcendent by Howard L. Goodman

Author:Howard L. Goodman [Goodman, Howard L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, Ethnic Studies, General, Regional Studies
ISBN: 9781136745362
Google: imveCwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-04-01T06:01:56+00:00

Confucius [belittled Chou-kung], by saying “Wasn’t Chou-kung actually not a sage? He turned down the whole world!” This [would be as if] heaven and earth and the sun and moon thoughtlessly took leave of the myriad things.35 For this reason Shun [of Yü] faced the world and accepted the mandate without having been appointed.

The mention of Shun and the criticism of Chou-kung are significant, since the discussions play frequently upon Ts’ao’s emulation of Shun. Thus the memorialists also bring up the portents that have been amassing to indicate the end of the “force of fire,” just as in the past “the righteous phoenix” and “jumping fish” revealed Shun and Chou Wen-wang, respectively. Furthermore,

Your majesty defies heaven’s mandate and embellishes base actions (of those nine). You oppose the public’s heart to hold onto a private aim 逆人心以 守私志… We ministers have heard about the way of serving a ruler in which one “offers forward what is allowable” in order to “remove [his] disallowal 事君有獻可替否之道,”36 and about the principle where, in serving one’s superior (emperor), one “runs against [his] dragon-scales” in a tenacious struggle 奉上有逆鱗固爭之義.37 On [the pain of] death, we ministers dare to request [proceeding with the rituals].

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