Laufer, Berthold, 1874-1934 · Chicago : Open Court Pub. · leaf 41
stay in the same place, while Confucius is a being that eats and must consequently move around. The empty shell of the calabash was used as a bladder tied around the body to keep it afloat in crossing a deep river, as we see from a song in the Shi king?’ and a passage in the Kuo yii cited by Cha-… … tion is somewhat forced and excludes the essential point in Con- fucius’s explanation “to remain suspended in the same place,” it almost seems as if our artist Wang Chén-p‘éng had adhered to this mode of understanding the passage, as he introduced the calabash into this scene where Confucius is…
Art, Chinese · Confucius -- Portraits
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