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Kung-ye Ch'ang / 17

子曰，藏文仲，居蔡，山节藻棁，何如其知也。

Modern Chinese Guide

孔子说：臧文仲为一只大龟盖了房子，柱头刻成山的形状，梁上短柱画着水草花纹，他这样做算什么明智呢？

James Legge Translation

The Master said, "Tsang Wan kept a large tortoise in a house, on the capitals of the pillars of which he had hills made, and with representations of duckweed on the small pillars above the beams supporting the rafters.—Of what sort was his wisdom?"

Notes and themes

  • 底本：Wikisource 整理的 James Legge《The Chinese Classics》公版中英文本。
  • 中文由繁体转为简体，后续白话解释需逐章审校。
  • 白话参考底本：《白话论语读本》，张兆瑢、沈元起编译，上海广益书局1948 年新三版。
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