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Invocation for the sacrifice at the Round Mound praying for grain on the first sin day — the invocation used in common for the Five Sovereigns (五帝)上辛祈糓圓丘祭祝 五帝通行祝

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 0.3 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.

食先八政。將陳孔夙之祈。祭重五經。聊展可羞之信。享玆嘉靖。畀以豐登。

Eating comes before the eight affairs of government, and so we are about to set forth this earliest of prayers; sacrifice is the weightiest of the five rites, and so we spread out, for what it is worth, a faith that may be presented.

Partake of this fair and peaceful sincerity, and send down a year of plenty.