| 1885 - 554 pages
...be the ' three ducal ministers.' * This took and takes place on the first hsin (-^) day, the first God. The son of Heaven turns up three furrows, each...ministers five, and the other ministers and feudal princes nine1. When they return, he takes in his hand a cup in the great chamber, all the others being in attendance... | |
| 1898 - 338 pages
...three ducal ministers, his nine high ministers, the feudal princes and his Great officers, all with their own hands to plough the field of God. The Son...ministers five and the other ministers and feudal princes nine1). When they return he takes in his hands a cup in the great chamber, all the others being in... | |
| Huan-chang Chʻen - 1911 - 426 pages
...officials, for the ersonal cultivation of the " borrowing field." The eineror ploughs the land three times, each of the ducal ministers five, and the other ministers and feudal princes nine.1 This system is significant from two points of view. In the first place, it touches religion.... | |
| Bardwell L. Smith, Holly Baker Reynolds - 1987 - 152 pages
...three ducal ministers, his nine high ministers, the feudal princes and his great officers, all with their own hands to plough the field of God. The son...ministers five, and the other ministers and feudal princes nine.15 The actual ritual of later dynasties was, as one would imagine, much more complicated than... | |
| Adriano (di St. Thecla) - 2002 - 364 pages
...three ducal ministers, his nine high ministers, the feudal princes and his Great officers, all with their own hands to plough the field of God. The Son...and the other ministers and feudal princes nine." Legge, Li Chi, 1:254-255 (or ibid., 1:254-255). 14 Legge (1815-97) states that this ceremony was still... | |
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