Presentation Address for the Music Bureau's Offering of Auspicious Objects on Welcoming the Royal Carriage at the Villa of the Marquis of Jingang — with a preface, and one hymn for each晉康侯別第迎聖駕次。敎坊呈瑞物致語。幷序各頌一首

Hebo (河伯), Fengyi (馮夷), humbly hears that His Majesty the Holy Sovereign has gone in progress to the house of the Marquis of Jingang, has opened a banquet of lord and minister, and takes his pleasure in the great peace; and, unable to contain his admiration and his wonder, he respectfully sends the envoy of the Clear River (淸江) to bear the precious chart on his back and to offer up ten thousand years of life to the Sovereign. In the warm wind and the lingering sun he has chosen out the fair scenery of the green spring, and in the splendid hall of the Gapgwan he has spread an orderly banquet in broad daylight. Though I dwell hidden in the water, how should I dare be slack in rejoicing? I humbly consider that His Majesty the Holy Sovereign is divine in his knowing of the first stirrings, and that being wise alone he has become a sage. Letting his robes hang down, he has brought the world under his governance and sits enjoying the great peace; granting a fief upon the thatch grass, he has enfeoffed his meritorious subject and early raised high the honours shown him. He has had the array and the guard of the palace dwelling attend upon him, and has allowed himself the roaming to a marquis's house. I humbly consider that for His Highness the Yeonggong Mount Song sent down its essence and the Pleiades (昴星) gathered their purity. His repute stands higher than Yi Yin's (伊尹), and towering he has accomplished a merit that covers an age; his achievements are those of the ministers of Duke Huan and Duke Wen, and he is the more devoted to the duty of exalting the royal house. He has thrown wide a house that overtops the clouds and reverently welcomed a progress before which the road is cleared. The silks are fragrant one with another, and pipes and singing seethe in rivalry. Prostrate I consider that Hebo Fengyi dwells in the office of the nine rivers and has become the chief of the four watercourses. When Tang Yao (唐堯) arose, I once presented the white chart; when Taisi (大姒) flourished, I likewise offered up the Great Plan (洪範). Now lord and minister are of one virtue, and Heaven and Earth put forth portents. How much more, my cave-dwelling being broad, should I alone be without a rare gift? I send the divine envoy with six eyes to bear up the divine writing of the eight trigrams. Accordingly I set down my mean heart and make bold to offer up a short hymn. Its words are these.

Wise and holy, our sovereign has restored the house, and his bounty has soaked even into the flying and the running things. A divine tortoise has come out of the river bearing the secret chart and ten thousand years of life. Tortoise, what you hold, do not you begrudge it. Take from it and offer it up to the sovereign, and let it reach our elder minister too, that he may enjoy the span of a yellow-haired elder.

The above is for the divine tortoise bearing the chart on its back and offering up ten thousand years of life to the Sovereign.

The divine man (神人) of the Luo River (洛水) humbly hears that His Majesty the Holy Sovereign has gone in progress to the house of the Marquis of Jingang, has bestowed a banquet, and takes his pleasure together with him; and, unable to contain his congratulation and his clapping of hands, he respectfully sends the dragon horse (龍馬) to carry a writing in its mouth and bear up his felicitations. The flying dragon is in the heavens, so that it is well to meet with a great man; the divine horse comes forth from the water, so that the beauty of the great mandate is the more made plain. I humbly consider that His Majesty the Holy Sovereign has made the hearts of the four seas one and has gathered into himself the virtue of the Five Emperors. Meeting a time of leisure in the state, he chose a time when wind and sunlight were clear and mild, came forth from the palace of Heaven and halted his green parasol at the red mansion, and, allowing the music of the immortals to be spread, opened a fair banquet in a painted hall. He is harmonious and also joyful, yet there is measure in his roaming. I humbly consider that His Highness the Yeonggong has once set the world right and has raised up the royal house again. Hiding the sun and overtopping the clouds, he has raised red pillars on ground like a golden cup; striking the bells and beating the drums, he has welcomed the yellow carriage canopy into the Ruizhu Palace (蕊珠宮). He has met with one moment of gladness in the royal countenance, and has offered up the hundred skills of entertainers like immortals. We divine men drink in the harmonious air and are steeped in the waves of his bounty. To bring forth a yellow fish is not enough to make a fair portent, and how should the offering of black jade make a fair portent either? I only send the girin (騏驎) that chases the sun, to take its place among the birds and beasts that dance in the courtyard. Then I offer up a short song, singing up to the virtue of the Sovereign. Its words are these.

His benevolence and holiness answer to Heaven, and the blue clouds float up. The divine horse of the Luo comes forth from the water, going like wind and striking like lightning. In its mouth it carries a strange writing, a yellow chart and a green register. With what shall it be offered up? The sovereign's reign has no bound, and the marquis's years are a hundred million.

The above is for the dragon horse carrying a writing in its mouth and offering up a Heaven-like span of years without bound.