Sacred Books of the East/Volume 3/The Shih/Odes of the Temple and the Altar/The Sacrificial Odes of Kâu
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II. The Sacrificial Odes of Kâu.
In this division we have thirty-one sacrificial odes of Kâu, arranged in three decades, the third of which, however, contains eleven pieces. They belong mostly to the time of king Wăn, the founder of the Kâu dynasty, and to the reigns of his son and grandson, kings Wû and Khăng. The decades are named from the name of the first piece in each.
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- The First Decade, or that of Khing Miâo
- The Second Decade, or that of Khăn Kung
- The Third Decade, or that of Min Yü Hsiâo Zze