Book of Odes · Mao witness · 周頌清廟之什第一
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維天之命，於穆不已
Heaven's mandate: how profound, and without cease.
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18 Han characters · 14 distinct forms · 3 units separated by the witness’s punctuation
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維天之命，
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Different contextual sensesThe same 天 in different genresXunzi argues that Heaven’s course is not altered for good or bad rulers; a Shijing hymn praises the enduring mandate. The shared graph opens a question about local sense and genre, not proof that one statement directly answers the other.
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孟子 · 公孫丑上文王之德曰：「若是，則弟子之惑滋甚。且以文王之德，百年而後崩，猶未洽於天下；武王、周公繼之，然後大行。今言王若易然，則文王不足法與？
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論語 · Keep different negatives apart未之有也論語 · Connect a modifier to a head禮之用，和為貴論語 · Keep different negatives apart不患人之不己知論語 · Keep different negatives apart回也不愚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
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- Kanseki Repository (Kanripo) contributors; upstream base-edition labels retained in each original file.
- Source position
- KR1c0001_026.txt, lines 44–47.
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- 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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