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The Book of Odes (Shijing) - Launcelot Cranmer-Byng
The Book of Odes (Shijing)
By
Launcelot Cranmer-Byng
FOREWORD
Launcelot Cranmer-Byng (1872- 1945)
The Book of Odes is a collection of the oldest Chinese poems discovered – written between the 7th and 10th centuries B.C. It is considered one of the Five Classics
; five classical Chinese books.
EDITORIAL NOTE
The object of the editors of this series is a very definite one. They desire above all things that, in their humble way, these books shall be the ambassadors of good-will and understanding between East and West, the old world of Thought, and the new of Action. In this endeavour, and in their own sphere, they are but followers of the highest example in the land. They are confident that a deeper knowledge of the great ideals and lofty philosophy of Oriental thought may help to a revival of that true spirit of Charity which neither despises nor fears the nations of another creed and colour. Finally, in thanking press and public for the very cordial reception given to the Wisdom of the East
series, they wish to state that no pains have been spared to secure the best specialists for the treatment of the various subjects at hand.
L. CRANMER-BYNG
S. A. KAPADIAI
Northbrook Society,
185 Piccadilly, W.
INTRODUCTION
"While reading the works of Confucius, I have always fancied I could see the man as he was in life, and, when I went to Shantung, I actually beheld his carriage, his robes, and the material parts of his ceremonial usages. There were his descendants practising the old rites in their ancestral home; and I lingered on, unable to tear myself away. Many are the princes and prophets that the world has seen in its time; glorious in life, forgotten in death. But Confucius, though only a humble member of the cotton-clothed masses, remains among us after many generations. He is the model for such as would be wise. By all, from the Son of