A memorial of congratulation on the killing of Huang Chao賀殺黃巢表
1Lin Yan cuts off Huang Chao's head
臣某言：臣得武寧節度使時溥狀報：逆賊黃巢、尚讓分隊，並在東北界；於六月十五日，行營都將李師悅、陳景瑜等於萊蕪縣北大滅群凶。至十七日，遂被賊將偽僕射林言梟斬黃巢首級，並將徒伴降部下都將李惟政、田球等訖，其黃巢函首已送行在者。聖日重耀，狂氛暗銷，戎捷超於古今，歡聲振於夷夏。臣某誠抃誠躍、頓首頓首。臣伏以歲有四時，則秋行肅殺之令；武有七德，則兵貴禁戢之能。是故歲以無相奪而克成，兵所不得已而方用。自革結繩之政，皆勞祝綱之仁。賊巢食土懷頑，含沙稔毒，深犯天紀，廣致地災，九州則半致侵凌，三輔則久經穢黷，擢發而既難數罪，舂喉而只待懲姦。今者窮寇回心，元兇授首，殺傷老少，歸附居多。有徵無戰之言，實符王道；以靜待勞之勢，深葉軍機。伏惟皇帝陛下運啟中興，功資下武，睹天鑑而實為大警，聽風謠而非止少康，永當銷干戈之鋒，便可鑄耒耜之器。況乃西山八國，數年飽巡幸之恩；東岳百神，終日渴登封之禮。佇迎雲馭，俯納巖音。臣密邇寇戎，撫安疆境，不暇爭鋒而進，實防代俎之譏，慚虧犬馬之勞，喜睹鯨鯢之戮，手舞足蹈，魂飛膽揚。臣限守藩條，不獲奔走稱賀行在，無任慶抃兢越之至。謹奉表陳賀以聞，臣某誠歡誠喜、頓首頓首。謹言。
Your servant So-and-so speaks. Your servant has had a report from Shi Pu, military commissioner of Wuning, saying that the rebels Huang Chao and Shang Rang had divided their bands and that both were on the northeastern border, and that on the fifteenth day of the sixth month Li Shiyue and Chen Jingyu and the others, commanders of the marching camp, destroyed the savage crowd in great number north of Laiwu county, and that by the seventeenth day Lin Yan, a rebel general whom they called vice director, had cut off Huang Chao's head and led the rest of the band in surrender to Li Weizheng and Tian Qiu and the other commanders under him, and that Huang Chao's head has been put in a box and sent already to your traveling palace. The holy sun shines doubly and the mad air wastes away in the dark. The victory of the troops goes beyond all times past and present, and the glad sound shakes among the outer peoples and the Chinese alike. Your servant So-and-so truly claps his hands and truly leaps up, bowing his head to the ground, bowing his head to the ground. Your servant humbly considers that as the year has four seasons and autumn carries out the order of the killing chill, so the warrior has seven virtues, and troops are held dear for their power to forbid and to draw in. And so the year is brought about when nothing snatches at anything else, and troops are used only when there is no other way. Since the rule of knotted cords was put aside, men have labored at the benevolence that prays over the net. The bandit Chao ate of the land and held stubbornness in him, and took sand into his mouth and grew practiced in poison. He broke deep into the order of heaven and brought calamity broadly upon the earth. Half the Nine Provinces suffered his trampling and the Three Adjuncts were long fouled by him, and though a man pulled out his hairs one by one he could not number the crimes, and there was nothing to wait for but the pounding of his throat and the punishing of his wickedness. Now the cornered bandits have turned their hearts and the chief evildoer has given up his head, and those who have come over are far more than the old and the young who were killed and wounded. The saying that there is a campaign but no battle truly accords with the kingly way, and the stance that waits in quiet upon another's toil agrees deeply with the arts of war. Your servant humbly considers that in Your Majesty the turning of fortune opens a restoration, and that your merit rests upon treading in the steps of those before you. He looks into the mirror of heaven, and it is truly a great warning to him. He listens to the songs of the people, and this does not stop at Shao Kang. He will melt down the blades of spear and shield forever, and cast them at once into plows and plowshares. How much more when the eight states of the Western Mountains have had their fill these several years of the kindness of his progress, and the hundred spirits of the Eastern Peak thirst the whole day long for the rite of the feng sacrifice. Your servant waits for the coming of the cloud chariot and for the voice from the cliffs to be taken in from above. Your servant lies close by the bandits and has had no leisure to strive forward and cross blades, for he has been soothing and settling his own borders, and truly he was guarding against the reproach of one who takes another's place at the block. He is ashamed that the labor of a dog or a horse has gone to waste in him, and he is glad to see the whale and the she whale cut down, and his hands wave and his feet stamp, his spirit flies and his gall leaps up. Your servant is bound to his duty in the frontier command and cannot hurry to your traveling palace to give his congratulation, and he cannot bear the utmost of his rejoicing and clapping and trembling. He respectfully sends up this memorial to set forth his congratulation and make it heard. Your servant So-and-so is truly glad and truly joyful, bowing his head to the ground, bowing his head to the ground. Respectfully spoken.