with her girdle.
An enmity was thus commenced between the two families
of K'ung and Hwa which the lapse of time did not obliterate, and
the latter being the more powerful of the two, Chia's great-
grandson withdrew into the State of Lu to avoid their persecution.
There he was appointed commandant of the city of Fang [11], and
is known

1 ¦ò¤÷¦ó.
2 èÛ(al. ¤è) ªÁ.
3 I drop here the ¤÷ (second tone), which seems to have been used
in those times in a manner equivalent to our Mr.
4 ¼F¤½.
5 ¥¿¦Ò¨j; ¨j is used in the same way as ¤÷; see note 3.
6 À¹, ªZ, «Å, ¤T¤½.
7 See the ¾|»y, and °Ó¹|¸Ö§Ç; quoted in Chiang Yung's (¤u¥Ã) Life of
Confucius, which forms a part of the ¶mÄҹϦÒ.
8 ¤Õ¤÷¹Å.
9 µØ·þ.
10 ¼Ü¤½.
11 ¨¾.


in history by the name of Fang-shu [1]. Fang-shu gave birth to Po-
hsia [2], and from him came Shu-liang Heh [3], the father of
Confucius. Heh appears in the history of the times as a soldier of
great prowess and daring bravery. In the year B.C. 562, when
serving at the siege of a place called Peh-yang [4], a party of the
assailants made their way in at a gate which had purposely been
left open, and no sooner were they inside than the portcullis was