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Invocation for the sacrifice announcing the full moon of the intercalary month to the Great Ancestral Shrine大廟閏月告望祭祝

Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) 東國李相國集 · Yi Gyubo · Compiled 1241 (Goryeo, 28th year of King Gojong); revised and enlarged 1251 · 1 passages · 28 Chinese characters · reading time 0.4 min

Dongguk Isangguk Jip (Collected Works of Minister Yi of the Eastern Country) Former Collection, Book 40 The collected writings of Yi Gyubo of Goryeo, gathered and cut in woodblock by his son Yi Ham in 1241 and revised and enlarged by his grandson Yi Ikbae in 1251. It holds poems and rhapsodies, memorials and reports sent up to the king, records written for temples and pagodas, stele and tomb inscriptions, letters and prefaces, and the state letters that passed to and from the Mongols during the invasions. The Lay of King Dongmyeong, which sings the founder of Goguryeo, stands in volume 3 of the first collection, and the daily life of a man who called himself the White Cloud Layman — with his wine, his zither and his verse — fills the later collection. The book closes with the last poem he wrote as his eyes failed and he laid down the brush, and with the dirge and tomb inscription others made for him after his death.

斗杓斜指。時方紀於積餘。月魄旣盈。禮敢愆於告望。幸歆薄薦。小副克誠。

The handle of the Dipper points aslant, and the time is now reckoned to the intercalary month that gathers the leftover days. The soul of the moon is already full; how should we dare transgress the rite of announcing the full moon?

We pray you partake of these meagre offerings, and answer, if only a little, the sincerity we have spent.