Book of Odes · Mao witness · 小雅
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戰戰兢兢，如臨深淵，如履薄冰
Trembling with care, as if facing a deep abyss, as if stepping on thin ice.
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42 Han characters · 29 distinct forms · 10 units separated by the witness’s punctuation
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不敢暴虎，
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Watch recurrence: 章 × 5 不 × 2 敢 × 2 知 × 2 其 × 2 戰 × 2. Repetition of a graph need not mean repetition of a sense.
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Explicit textual citationA poem’s similes in Zengzi’s speechThe Analects marks the precariousness images as a quotation from the Poems. Compare the poem’s voice with the setting of Zengzi’s illness. Exact repeated wording anchors the connection, while the new speaker and situation change its use.
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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
- Work
- 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.
- Digital witness
- Kanseki Repository · KR1c0001 · base edition tls
- Contributors
- Kanseki Repository (Kanripo) contributors; upstream base-edition labels retained in each original file.
- Source position
- KR1c0001_019.txt, lines 518–527. SHI 195.6
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- Text policy
- Source spelling and punctuation retained. Encoding headers, page markers, paragraph markers, whitespace, and leading section numbers are removed from the reading view. No silent script conversion or textual correction.
- Teaching
- zimai · AI-assisted editorial notes. English renderings are excerpt-level reading aids, not a full published translation. Editorial pilot · not independently reviewed.
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