People not following me, will not make me preoccupied by sadness.ДЇootnotes (Shorthand references are explained on aДЁ095.4 Qishan Cao has several early references, beginning with 'Name of a Yuefu qin melody'. (Mount) Qi is rocky, but I will go there myself. The people will fight for me, but who would allow such death and misery? Now the Di people, want the land of my territory. My home has been in Bin, since my first ancestors.ДЇor me to continue on, I dare to be different. The setting of Han Yu's lyrics is largely syllabic, following the structure of the lyrics ( x 6): Music and lyrics: One section 12 (translation tentative At that time the people of Bin all said that Taiwang was a virtuous person, so they followed him and came to Mount Qi as though they were going to the market.'ДЄs for this melody, perhaps it was the one which Zhou Gong created to teach Cheng Wang by recalling the virtues of his ancestor (Gugong Danfu). He offered them leather and silk, (then) dogs, (then) horses, (then) pearls and jade, but all this was not effective so he avoided the Di by going to Bin, building a town below Mount Qi so that he could live there. 'When the realm of Taiwang was in Bin, the Di tribe often attacked them. 10ДЄccording to Mencius (the following is paraphrased from King Hui of Liang, Part Two), This title is also found in five later handbooks the second is unrelated to here, but the last four have a different melody set according to the same Han Yu lyrics as here. They all tell how Zhou Gong's great grandfather Danfu set a good example by ruling benevolently, and that Zhou Gong himself wrote the melody. The Qin Cao introductions as quoted in other sources are quite long and sometimes include lyrics not found here or in Yuefu Shiji. ' Qin Cao says, 'Zhou Gong wrote Qishan Cao on behalf of Da Wang.'' The preface there to this poem in Yuefu Shiji says only The lyrics here can be found in Yuefu Shiji,ДЇolio 57, #18. This loyal service is also related in the qin melody Feng Lei ( Yin. He also helped educate Wu Wang's son Cheng Wang, loyally serving him instead of seeking the throne for himself. After Wen Wang was succeeded by Wu Wang, Zhou Gong became his major adviser in the establishment of the Zhou dynasty. 7Дanfu's grandson Wen Wang had two sons, Wu Wang (Military King) and Zhou Gong. 6 To avoid attack by the non-Han Di tribe the clan leader Old Duke Danfu moved south to Mount Qi but because of his virtues, not only his clan but other people came and joined him. The first Zhou capital was near modern Xi'an, but before that time the clan had been centered in the region of Bin, to the northwest. 5 Wen Wang himself is the subject of the fifth melody in Taigu Yiyin, Juyou Cao. Danfu was the grandfather of Zhou Gong's father, Wen Wang (Civil King), founder of the Zhou dynasty (reputed date 1122 BCE).

Han Yu claims that Zhou Gong (Duke of Zhou) wrote them on behalf of Da Wang (or Tai Wang), a common name for Gugong Danfu (Old Duke Danfu). Qishan Cao is the first of the ten Qin Cao 4 set to lyrics by

Standard tuning: 2 5 6 1 2 3 5 6 played as 1 2 4 5 6 1 2

Da bei zhou original lyrics