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from Zhou Song Halloa! King Cheng Has called you here. Prime your farm men To sow the grains. Horse-swift out tools: Full thirty lis Are yours to plough, Ten thousand paired. |
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[NOTES] This poem was written in time of King Cheng, the second King of Zhou(1115-1079B.C.), showing the kind of mass farming employing 10,000 hands then in existence, supervised by the King himself. Zhou Song: Festal Hymns and Songs of The Early Zhou. lis: The ancient li consisted of 300 mu, the mu being a unit of 100 paces square. Here "thirty lis" refers to private land.
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