50. Kuan and Yüeh, specified in the original, were statesmen of the Chou Dynasty. Kuan and Chang, also specified, two great generals in the Shu Kingdom, were both killed in action; the first of them, Kuan Yü, has been made the Chinese god of war, called also Kuan Ti.
51. The Canons of Yao and Hsun were two volumes in the Confucian Book of History, Ch'ing-miao and Shêng-min two poems in the Confucian Book of Poetry, and the T'ang plate and Confucian tripod two art treasures.
The three Huang rulers and five Ti rulers were famous as good sovereigns of ancient China.
52. Chou Yü, a hero of the period of the Three Kingdoms, young, handsome, a statesman, a general, a scholar, a musician, was fond of listening to classical music and when a mistake would be made is said to have reminded the player with a glance. The listener here is of course not Chou Yü, but one whose eye the harpist likes to attract, and probably also a connoisseur of music.
52a. In Tu Mu's The Purple Cliff (a cliff on the Yang-tsze, east of Han-kou, Hu-pêi Province) allusion is made to a celebrated event occurring there, an exploit of Chou Yü's. A fleet from the Wêi Kingdom had come down the river to attack the Wu and Shu Kingdoms. The two generals, Chu-kê Liang of the Shu Kingdom, and Chou Yü of the Wu Kingdom, combined forces and destroyed the fleet by setting it afire. The King of Wêi, if he had won this battle, would have been able to bear captive to his Copper-Bird Palace the two famously beautiful girls of Ch'iao,
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