Dispatch making Geshu Dang, officer for guests, concurrently commissioner of the music camp客將哥舒璫兼充樂營使
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 · 105 Chinese characters · reading time 0.4 min
Gyewon Pilgyeongjip (A Plowing of the Brush in the Cassia Garden) Book 14 — 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.
1Put propriety first, and guard against wanton excess
A dispatch to the officer named above. In action he shows firmness and courage. In quiet he keeps modesty and simplicity. He completed the work of learning the sword early, and he has not let fall the calling handed down in his house. He has passed through trial after trial and has never been slack in cultivating himself. The office of guests has long been entrusted to him, and it has been seen that he is a man one can speak with and employ. Let him hold the music post as well, and surely he will be looked to for the fitting ordering of festive joy. Do you put propriety first and take as your warning that there be no wanton excess. Greet and see off your guests at the Yan terrace and the Zheng post station, and set the measure for the whirling dance and the song that stays the clouds. Do not let the worthy and excellent have cause to reproach you with nursing an illness. See to it that the fair and lovely first seal up any sound of laughing at the lame. This matter must be a concurrent appointment as commissioner of the music camp.