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Analects of Confucius · Chapter 5: Book V: KUNG-YE CH'ANG

Analects of Confucius 5.17

translated from Classical Chinese by James Legge, 1893

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?’

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