Motif
Collection and circulation of authoritative songs
collection_and_circulation_of_authoritative_songs
A motif of the Storytelling and Narrative as Sacred Power family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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confucian
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The Sacred Books of China: The Texts of Confucianism, Part I - The Shu King, the Religious Portions of the Shih King, the Hsiao King (Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 3) BOOK OF POETRY. / INTRODUCTION. / Chapter II. / Chapter IV.; lines 12194-12293 confidence: medium
Officers of the states are described as familiar with odes of their own and other states and with the present Shih; the whole Shih was sung to Ki Ka of Wu at Lu in Confucius's boyhood.
The passage describes officials knowing odes across states and proposes regular communication of preserved poems from the royal court to state courts.
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