Exploring the Analects

Exploring the Analects

Book 5: 《公冶長》 Gong Ye Chang

《公冶長》 Passage 5.18

子曰:「臧文仲居蔡,山節藻梲,何如其知也?」

Legge Translation (1861)

The Master said: "Zang Wen 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?"
臧文仲

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