Book of Odes · Mao witness · 國風衛風第五
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如切如磋，如琢如磨
As if cut and filed, as if carved and polished.
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瞻彼淇奧，
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The repeated comparative 如 and the characterization of the admired figure.
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Explicit textual citationThe Analects quotes the craft simileThe Analects explicitly introduces the cutting-and-polishing lines as words from the Poems. In the dialogue the quotation becomes evidence of the learner’s ability to extend a prompt. The Shijing stanza first characterizes an admired figure; the later use is an interpretive event of its own.
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論語 · 學而篇第一如切如磋子貢曰：「《詩》云：『如切如磋，如琢如磨。』其斯之謂與？」子曰：「賜也，始可與言《詩》已矣，告諸往而知來者。」
荀子 · 大略篇第二十七如琢如磨玉之於琢磨也。《詩》曰：「如切如瑳，如琢如磨。」謂學問也。和氏之璧、井里之厥也，玉人琢之，為天下寶。子贛、季路，故鄙人也，被文學
詩經 · 淇奧瞻彼淇奧瞻彼淇奧，綠竹青青。有匪君子，充耳琇瑩，會弁如星。瑟兮僩兮！赫兮咺兮！有匪君子，終不可諼兮！
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論語 · Let parallel clauses constrain a reading巧言令色，鮮矣仁論語 · Let parallel clauses constrain a reading父在，觀其志；父沒，觀其行論語 · Identify a comparison and its standard未若貧而樂道，富而好禮者也論語 · Let parallel clauses constrain a reading道之以政，齊之以刑Edition, source, and reuse
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- 詩經 · Book of Odes · Mao witness
- Attribution
- Anonymous poems transmitted in the Mao tradition, with received prefaces and ancillary prose; individual attribution is uncertain.
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- Kanseki Repository · KR1c0001 · base edition tls
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- KR1c0001_005.txt, lines 23–31.
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