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zo, VI. 6, XI. 6, XII. 17, I8, I9, and XIV. 20 ; and that
Duke Ai did likewise is witnessed by II. I9 and VI. 2.
The next four or five years of his life he devoted to
editing and writing an Introduction to the Book of History
_: $_; to arranging the Book of Rites and Ceremonies,
_, the Chinese Leviticus; to classifying the Odes
_,_ ,-_; and to rectifying the Music both in Court and
Temple. It is probable, too, that he at the same time
supplied his disciple "rs&lgTzfi _t :E with the material
for the Classic of Filial Piety, _ _., He also applied
himself diligently to the study of the Yi Ching _ _..,
so_diligently indeed that he is said to have three times
worn out the leather thongs of his copy. Such a hold
did this cabalistic book obtain over him that he declared,
if his life could only be prolonged, he would devote
hlmselfentirely to the study thereof VII. 16. That he
would have made it any clearer, or of greater utility to
his fellow meu,As hardly, worth discussing.
Soon after his teA;urn from Wei, Jan Ch'iu, who had
been the means of his recall, caused him much vexation
of spirit by assisting Chi K'ang to add a further impost
upon the already burdened people. It was then that
Confucius bade his disciples beat the drum and openly
accuse him. XI. _6. A number of other sayings are
referable to this pm iod : IIL I, 6, z I, and possibly 2, xo,
II, 23;X. I_;XI. 2;XIV. 26;XVI. I.
In the year after his retmn to "Lu, i.e. in 483, his son
Li died, leaving a son named Chi {_, Chi's son Tzfi
Ssfi --_ ,_, became a pupil of the philosopher Tseng Tzfi,
and it was from a pupil of Tzu Ssfi that Meneius obtained