Thousand Characters

Chapter 9

[Original text]

Hang the people and cut the crime, Zhou made Yin Tang.Sitting in the face and asking, hanging the arched seal.

【Note】

Hanging: to comfort, appease.Cutting: Crusade, crusade.Zhou: Western Zhou Dynasty.Hair: Refers to Zhou Wu Wang Jifa.Yin: Refers to the capital of Yin (now Anyang, Henan). In history, the Shang Dynasty had its capital in Yin, also called Yin Shang.Tang: Refers to Shang Tang, the first monarch of the Shang Dynasty.North Korea: imperial court.Dao: The principle of governing the world.Hanging: Hanging.Arch: bow hands and salute.Chapter: manifest, manifest. "Chui Gong Ping Zhang" means that the emperor can bring peace to the world without doing anything, which was called "governing by doing nothing" in ancient times.The first two sentences here talk about the deeds of the three emperors Yu Wang, Tang Wang and Wu Wang of the three dynasties of Xia, Shang and Zhou in ancient China, and the last two sentences describe the history of wise monarchs governing the world and caring for the people.In ancient China, people admired the noble emperor most, but hated the tyrant who harmed the people very much.Because in the eyes of the Chinese, governing the country with noble morals is the most ideal.

【Interpretation】

To appease the innocent people in the world and crusade against the heinous rulers, Wu Wang Jifa of the Zhou Dynasty and Shang Tang of the Shang Dynasty were the first to do so.A wise monarch sits on the court, asks the ministers about the principles of governing the country, and can bring peace to the world without any effort, so that his own achievements have also been demonstrated.

(End of this chapter)