Dispatch making Attendant Censor Wang Qi acting aide of the right王棨端公攝右司馬
Gyewon Pilgyeongjip (A Plowing of the Brush in the Cassia Garden) 桂苑筆耕集 · Choe Chiwon · 886 (Tang, 6th year of the Zhonghe era · Silla, 12th year of King Heongang) · 1 passages · 98 Chinese characters · reading time 0.4 min
Gyewon Pilgyeongjip (A Plowing of the Brush in the Cassia Garden) Book 13 — Notices A collection Choe Chiwon made by choosing out of the writings of his four years in the headquarters of Gao Pian, military commissioner of Huainan under the Tang, binding them into twenty volumes and presenting them to King Heongang of Silla in 886. It holds 366 pieces — memorials and reports sent up to the emperor, the proclamation denouncing Huang Chao, letters to the several military commissioners, orders and dispatches issued to those under him, Daoist and Buddhist texts for services, funeral offerings, records written for the outer wall of Chengdu and for a painting of Annam, and the reports and poems he sent up to Gao Pian. Here is the first report, which begins "I am a man of Silla," and the proclamation against Huang Chao with its line, "Not only do all the men of the world think to kill you openly; the ghosts under the earth have already discussed cutting you down in secret." The last volume holds the poems he made on the voyage home to the country he had left at twelve. It is the oldest collection by a Korean that survives, and when Hong Seokju and Seo Yugu printed it with movable type in 1834 they called it "the root and the beginning of the writing of our Eastern Country." Their two prefaces are translated with it.
1The awe of the censorate and the ease of the commandery court
A dispatch to the attendant censor. He is of the flourishing clan of Wuyi, of the pure stream of the crane-feather cloak. Early he entered the honor of office, and he is well versed in the arts of an official. The metal and stone in his mouth, men have always heard the height of his straight rhymes. The copper and salt under his hand, long ago he showed the wonder of his rare gifts. The matter is already like a recommendation from outside, and in reason there is nothing to be ashamed of in seeking a man from the side. Now his rank hangs on the roll of the board, and his office joins the duties of an aide. Though it is said he fills a vacant place, I wish for the present to try his ability. As for the awe of the censorate, another day will show wolves and jackals crouching in fear. As for the ease of the commandery court, this is a time to enjoy the fish and birds that linger there. This matter. He is sent to act as aide of the right.