meant to use; hence the method to be used or followed, a course. [The Chung Yung is a short philosophical treatise in one section of thirty-three chapters. Its title has been rendered by Legge as The Doctrine of the Mean, by Julien as L'Invariable Milieu.]
| 124. | 子 | 思 | 筆 | by the pen of Tzŭ-ssŭ; | |
| Tzŭ3 | ssŭ1 | pi3 | |||
| Tzŭ | ssŭ | brush |
Tzŭ see line 11.
Ssŭ is composed of 心 hsin heart, the seat of intelligence, as radical, below an old word (not 田 t'ien fields) for the crown of the head, the fontanelle, and originally meant perspicacity. Read ssŭ4 it means thoughts; read sai1 the jowl. [Tzŭ-ssŭ was the style of 孔伋 K'ung Chi, grandson of Confucius.]
Pi is composed of 竹 chu bamboo, its modern radical, and 聿 lü or yü a stylus, the old radical, the latter being used to scratch characters on bamboo tablets until the invention of the brush which has been assigned to the 3rd cent. B.C. [In some editions this line reads 乃孔伋, nai k'ung chi, with the same meaning.]
| 125. | 中 | 不 | 偏 | Chung (the middle) being that which does not lean towards any side, | |
| Chung1 | pu1 | p'ien1 | |||
| Middle | not | deflected |
Chung see line 64.
Pu see line 5.
P'ien is composed of 人 jen man as radical, with 扁 pien flat as phonetic. See line 116.
| 126. | 庸 | 不 | 易 | Yung (the course) being that which cannot be changed. | |
| Yung1 | pu1 | i4 | |||
| Course | not | change |
Yung see line 123.
