Analects 10.10
The Analects (論語), BOOK X. HEANG TANG 鄉黨第十
鄉人飮酒、杖者出、斯出矣。鄉人儺、朝服而立於阼階。
1. When the villagers were drinking together, on those who carried staffs going out, he went out immediately after.
2. When the villagers were going through their ceremonies to drive away pestilential influences, he put on his court robes and stood on the eastern steps.
James Legge (1861), Confucian Analects, The Chinese Classics vol. 1 (1861; 2nd ed. 1893) — public domain.
Character glossary
- 鄉xiāngcountry, village; rural
- 人rénman, person; people
- 飮yǐndrink; swallow; kind of drink
- 酒jiǔwine, spirits, liquor, alcohol
- 杖zhàngcane, walking stick
- 者zhěthat which; they who; those who
- 出chūto go out, to send out; stand; produce
- 斯sīthis, thus, such; emphatic particle; use
- 矣yǐparticle of completed action
- 儺nuórich
- 朝cháoto face; direct, facing; dynasty; mornin
- 服fúclothes; to dress, to wear; to take medi
- 而érand, and then, and yet; but
- 立lìto stand; to establish, to set up
- 於yúat, in, on; to, from; alas!
- 阼zuòthe steps leading to the eastern door
- 階jiēstairs, steps; degree, rank
Passages with shared wording
- Zhuangzi Transcendental Bliss
- Analects 10.6
- Zhuangzi Tsê Yang
- Zhuangzi Tien Tzŭ Fang
- Analects 10.13
- Mencius 2A.9
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