Sacred Books of the East/Volume 3/The Shih/Lessons from the States/Book 10

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Book X. The Odes of Thang.

The odes of Thang were really the odes of Zin, the greatest of the fiefs of Kâu until the rise of Khin. King Khăng, in B.C. 1107, invested his younger brother, called Shû-yü, with the territory where Yâo was supposed to have ruled anciently as the marquis of Thang, in the present department of Thâi-yüan, Shan-hsî, the fief retaining that ancient name. Subsequently the name of the state was changed to Zin, from the river Zin in the southern part of it.

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