In long trains ever increasing grow the gourds .
When [our] people first sprang ，
From the country about the Ju and the Qi ，
The ancient duke Tan-fu ，
Made for them kiln-like huts and caves ，
Ere they had yet any houses .
The ancient duke Tan-fu ，
Came in the morning ， galloping his horses ，
Along the banks of the western rivers ，
To the foot of [mount] Qi ；
And there ， he and the lady Jiang ，
Came ， and together looked out for a site on which to settle .
The plain of Zhou looked beautiful and rich ，
With its violets and sowthistles [sweet] as dumplings .
There he began with consulting [his followers] ；
There he singed the tortoise-shell ， [and divined] .
The responses were - there to stay ， and then ；
And they proceeded there to build their houses .
He encouraged the people and settled them ；
Here on the left ， there on the right .
He divided the ground into larger tracts and smaller portions ；
He dug the ditches ； he defined the acres ；
From the west to the east ，
There was nothing which he did not take in hand .
He called his superintendent of works ；
He called his minister of instruction ；
And charged them with the building of the houses .
With the line they made everything straight ；
They bound the frame-boards tight ， so that they should rise regularly .
Uprose the ancestral temple in its solemn grandeur .
Crowds brought the earth in baskets
They threw it with shouts into the frames ；
They beat it with responsive blows ；
They pared the walls repeatedly ， and they sounded strong .
Five thousand cubits of them arose together ，
So that the roll of the great drum did not overpower [the noise of the builders] .
They set up the gate of the enceinte ；
And the gate of the enceinte stood high .
They set up the court gate ；
And the court gate stood grand .
They reared the great altar [to the Spirits of the land] ，
From which all great movements should proceed .
Thus though he could nto prevent the rage [of his foes] ，
He did not let fall his own fame .
The oaks and the Yu were [gradually] thinned ，
And roads for travelling were opened .
The hordes of the Hun disappeared ，
Startled and panting .
[The chiefs of] Yu and Rui were brought to an agreement ，
By king Wen's stimulating their natural virtue .
Then ， I may say ， some came to him ， previously not knowing him ；
And some ， drawn the last by the first ；
And some ， drawn by his rapid success ；
Ans some ， by his defence [of the weak] from insult .
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綿綿瓜瓞。
民之初生、自土沮漆。
古公亶父、陶父陶穴、未有家室。
古公亶父、來朝走馬。
率西水滸、至于岐下。
爰及姜女、聿來胥宇。
周原膴膴、菫茶如飴。
爰始爰謀、爰契我龜。
曰止曰時、筑室于茲。
乃慰乃止、乃左乃右、乃疆乃理、乃宣乃畝、自西徂東、周爰執(zhí)事。
乃召司空、乃召司徒、俾立室家。
其繩則直、縮版以載、作廟翼翼。
救之陾陾、度之薨薨、筑之登登、削屢馮馮、百堵皆興、鼛鼓弗勝。
乃立皋門、皋門有伉。
乃立應(yīng)門、應(yīng)門將將。
乃立冢土、戎丑攸行。
肆不殄厥慍、亦不隕厥問。
柞棫拔矣、行道兌矣。
混夷駾矣、維其喙矣。
虞芮質(zhì)厥成、文王蹶厥生。
予曰有疏附、予曰有先后、予曰有奔奏、予曰有御侮。
When [our] people first sprang ，
From the country about the Ju and the Qi ，
The ancient duke Tan-fu ，
Made for them kiln-like huts and caves ，
Ere they had yet any houses .
The ancient duke Tan-fu ，
Came in the morning ， galloping his horses ，
Along the banks of the western rivers ，
To the foot of [mount] Qi ；
And there ， he and the lady Jiang ，
Came ， and together looked out for a site on which to settle .
The plain of Zhou looked beautiful and rich ，
With its violets and sowthistles [sweet] as dumplings .
There he began with consulting [his followers] ；
There he singed the tortoise-shell ， [and divined] .
The responses were - there to stay ， and then ；
And they proceeded there to build their houses .
He encouraged the people and settled them ；
Here on the left ， there on the right .
He divided the ground into larger tracts and smaller portions ；
He dug the ditches ； he defined the acres ；
From the west to the east ，
There was nothing which he did not take in hand .
He called his superintendent of works ；
He called his minister of instruction ；
And charged them with the building of the houses .
With the line they made everything straight ；
They bound the frame-boards tight ， so that they should rise regularly .
Uprose the ancestral temple in its solemn grandeur .
Crowds brought the earth in baskets
They threw it with shouts into the frames ；
They beat it with responsive blows ；
They pared the walls repeatedly ， and they sounded strong .
Five thousand cubits of them arose together ，
So that the roll of the great drum did not overpower [the noise of the builders] .
They set up the gate of the enceinte ；
And the gate of the enceinte stood high .
They set up the court gate ；
And the court gate stood grand .
They reared the great altar [to the Spirits of the land] ，
From which all great movements should proceed .
Thus though he could nto prevent the rage [of his foes] ，
He did not let fall his own fame .
The oaks and the Yu were [gradually] thinned ，
And roads for travelling were opened .
The hordes of the Hun disappeared ，
Startled and panting .
[The chiefs of] Yu and Rui were brought to an agreement ，
By king Wen's stimulating their natural virtue .
Then ， I may say ， some came to him ， previously not knowing him ；
And some ， drawn the last by the first ；
And some ， drawn by his rapid success ；
Ans some ， by his defence [of the weak] from insult .
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綿綿瓜瓞。
民之初生、自土沮漆。
古公亶父、陶父陶穴、未有家室。
古公亶父、來朝走馬。
率西水滸、至于岐下。
爰及姜女、聿來胥宇。
周原膴膴、菫茶如飴。
爰始爰謀、爰契我龜。
曰止曰時、筑室于茲。
乃慰乃止、乃左乃右、乃疆乃理、乃宣乃畝、自西徂東、周爰執(zhí)事。
乃召司空、乃召司徒、俾立室家。
其繩則直、縮版以載、作廟翼翼。
救之陾陾、度之薨薨、筑之登登、削屢馮馮、百堵皆興、鼛鼓弗勝。
乃立皋門、皋門有伉。
乃立應(yīng)門、應(yīng)門將將。
乃立冢土、戎丑攸行。
肆不殄厥慍、亦不隕厥問。
柞棫拔矣、行道兌矣。
混夷駾矣、維其喙矣。
虞芮質(zhì)厥成、文王蹶厥生。
予曰有疏附、予曰有先后、予曰有奔奏、予曰有御侮。