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ful and am at ease and composed. I am
fearful and very careful; earnestly planning
[my actions], I am good at defending [my
ruler]. For this I am known in the Four
States. I respectfully keep my treaties and
sacrifices, and as a result forever obtain
happiness. Martial in warfare, I consider
and carefully plan [my strategies] and am
never defeated.
Glistening are the harmonizing bells.
With them feast in order to please and to
make happy the king of Chu, the various
rulers and the fine guests, our fathers and
brothers and the various gentlemen. How
blissful and brightly joyous! For ten thou-
sand years without end, forever preserve
and strike them.

1 Excavated in 1979; published: Henan 1980, pi. 1.3;
Zhao 1986; Thorp i988b, no. 9; Henan 1991:140-179,
pi. 58 - 60; So 1995, 31, fig. 32.
2 The rack is a reconstruction, the original having decom-
posed in the ground. Only twenty-four of the original
twenty-six connecting pins were found; they are not
depicted in the excavation report.
3 Falkenhausen i993b, 72-97; Falkenhausen and Rossing
1995,469-470.
4 Falkenhausen i993b, 256-260; Falkenhausen and Rossing
1995, 466 and 471.
5 Compare Hayashi K)88b, 383-391.
6 The twelve largest bells each feature a complete version of
the text; the following four bells each feature one-half, the
next following six each one-third, and the final four each
one-quarter of the text.
7 This interpretation partly follows suggestions in Zhang
1985 and Chen Wei 1983. The authors of the excavation
report (Henan 1991) attempt to identify Wangzi Wu as the
occupant of Tomb 2, a claim that cannot be correct
(Li Ling 1996^.
8 Translation after Falkenhausen 1988,1080-1083, an( ^
Mattos 1997,100 -101.

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