Excerpt from Early Chinese History: Are the Chinese Classics Forged?

He recovered more than ten chapters, and so the Shangshu was augmented.

In the Book of the Anterior Han (chap. Xxx.) we read, The ancient text of the Shangshu was brought from the wall of Confucius' house. At the end of the reign of the Emperor Wu, king Kung of Lu state pulled down the wall of Confucius' house with the intention of enlarging his own palace, and found therein the ancient text of the Shangshu, the Book of Rites, ' the 'discourses, ' and the F ilial Piety' classic - several tens of chapters - all written in the ancient text. When king Kung entered the house he heard the music of drums, lutes, harps, bells, and musical stones, so, being frightened, he stopped the work of destruction. K'ung An-kuo, who was a descendant of Confucius, secured all these chapters of the Shu king, and used them for his examination of the (other) twenty-nine Chapters, he also found Sixteen more chapters. K'ung Ankuo presented them to the emperor, but as the sorcery affair occurred at that time (b.c. They were not included in the Imperial Library catalogue.

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