Analects 3.14
The Analects (論語), BOOK III. PA YIH 八佾第三
子曰、周監於二代、郁郁乎文哉、吾從周。
The Master said, "Chau had the advantage of viewing the two past dynasties. How complete and elegant are its regulations! I follow Chau."
James Legge (1861), Confucian Analects, The Chinese Classics vol. 1 (1861; 2nd ed. 1893) — public domain.
Character glossary
- 子zison, child; seed, egg; fruit; small thin
- 曰yuēto speak; to say
- 周zhōuZhou dynasty; circumference
- 監jiānto supervise, to direct, to control; to
- 於yúat, in, on; to, from; alas!
- 二èrtwo; twice
- 代dàiera, generation; to substitute for, to r
- 郁yùmelancholy; dense growth
- 乎hūinterrogative or exclamatory final parti
- 文wénculture, literature, writing
- 哉zāifinal exclamatory particle
- 吾wúI, my, our; to resist, to impede
- 從cóngfrom, by, since, whence, through
Passages with shared wording
- The Doctrine of the Mean Passage 30
- Zhuangzi Robber Chê
- Analects 9.11
- Zhuangzi Transcendental Bliss
- Zhuangzi Exercise of Faculties
- Zhuangzi Tien Tzŭ Fang
Data: English Wikisource (Public domain texts; transcription CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.
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