古詩：緜 中英對照

In long trains ever increasing grow the gourds .

When [our] people first sprang ，

From the country about the Ju and the Qi ，

The ancient duke Tan-fu ，

Made for them kiln-like huts and caves ，

Ere they had yet any houses .

The ancient duke Tan-fu ，

Came in the morning ， galloping his horses ，

Along the banks of the western rivers ，

To the foot of [mount] Qi ；

And there ， he and the lady Jiang ，

Came ， and together looked out for a site on which to settle .

The plain of Zhou looked beautiful and rich ，

With its violets and sowthistles [sweet] as dumplings .

There he began with consulting [his followers] ；

There he singed the tortoise-shell ， [and divined] .

The responses were - there to stay ， and then ；

And they proceeded there to build their houses .

He encouraged the people and settled them ；

Here on the left ， there on the right .

He divided the ground into larger tracts and smaller portions ；

He dug the ditches ； he defined the acres ；

From the west to the east ，

There was nothing which he did not take in hand .

He called his superintendent of works ；

He called his minister of instruction ；

And charged them with the building of the houses .

With the line they made everything straight ；

They bound the frame-boards tight ， so that they should rise regularly .

Uprose the ancestral temple in its solemn grandeur .

Crowds brought the earth in baskets

They threw it with shouts into the frames ；

They beat it with responsive blows ；

They pared the walls repeatedly ， and they sounded strong .

Five thousand cubits of them arose together ，

So that the roll of the great drum did not overpower [the noise of the builders] .

They set up the gate of the enceinte ；

And the gate of the enceinte stood high .

They set up the court gate ；

And the court gate stood grand .

They reared the great altar [to the Spirits of the land] ，

From which all great movements should proceed .

Thus though he could nto prevent the rage [of his foes] ，

He did not let fall his own fame .

The oaks and the Yu were [gradually] thinned ，

And roads for travelling were opened .

The hordes of the Hun disappeared ，

Startled and panting .

[The chiefs of] Yu and Rui were brought to an agreement ，

By king Wen's stimulating their natural virtue .

Then ， I may say ， some came to him ， previously not knowing him ；

And some ， drawn the last by the first ；

And some ， drawn by his rapid success ；

Ans some ， by his defence [of the weak] from insult .

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緜緜瓜瓞。

民之初生、自土沮漆。

古公亶父、陶父陶穴、未有家室。

古公亶父、來朝走馬。

率西水滸、至於岐下。

爰及薑女、聿來胥宇。

周原膴膴、菫茶如飴。

爰始爰謀、爰契我龜。

曰止曰時、築室於玆。

迺慰迺止、迺左迺右、迺疆迺理、迺宣迺畝、自西徂東、周爰執事。

迺召司空、迺召司徒、俾立室家。

其繩則直、縮版以載、作廟翼翼。

救之陾陾、度之薨薨、築之登登、削屢馮馮、百堵皆興、鼛鼓弗勝。

迺立臯門、臯門有伉。

迺立應門、應門將將。

迺立塚土、戎醜攸行。

肆不殄厥慍、亦不隕厥問。

柞棫拔矣、行道兌矣。

混夷駾矣、維其喙矣。

虞芮質厥成、文王蹶厥生。

予曰有疏附、予曰有先後、予曰有奔奏、予曰有禦侮。