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40. Uniform Rule of the Great Ming
- shang mode, standard tuning: 5 6 1 2 3 5 6 played as 1 2 4 5 6 1 2
大明一統
Da Ming Yi Tong1

Da Ming Yi Tong is a song in one section. It survives in tablature in only two handbooks,2 Fengxuan Xianpin and Yuwu Qinpu3 (1589), which has the same lyrics but different music.

Zha Fuxi's Guide attributes Da Ming Yi Tong to Zhu Houjiao himself, not specifying whether he means the words, the music or both.

Yuwu Qinpu, also without being specific, attributes this title to Liu Ji,4 again not specifying it this means the words or the music, adding only that it is a "Yuwu Addition".5 It is the last melody in that handbook, and the only one there not included also in Zangchunwu Qinpu)

Not complete.

 
Original preface

None

 
One Section
Lyrics, not attributed, have the following structure:
6

(4 + 4) x 14
(7 + 6) x 4
(7 + 5) x 3
(7 + 7) x 2
(7 + 7) x 1
7 (closing harmonics)

 
Footnotes (Shorthand references are explained on a separate page)

1. Uniform Rule of the Great Ming (大明一統 Da Ming Yi Tong)
2/1347xxx; 5960.577 大明一統名勝志 book name, see 14124.1 明一統名勝志; 5960.578 大明一統志 book name, see 14124.2 明一統志. Both seem to be book collections and thus unrelated to this song title.
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2. Guide 16/164/362
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3. QQJC, VI., p.103
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4. 國朝劉基所作。 Liu Ji (1311 - 1375) was a noted critic of the Yuan and early supporter of the Ming. Lam, State Sacrifices, pp.6-7, quotes a "eulogy" by Liu Ji of an early Ming state sacrifice.
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5. 玉梧閏譜。 Yuwu was apparently a name of Zhang Jinchao, who compiled Yuwu Qinpu.
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6. Da Ming Yi Tong lyrics
The original lyrics are as follows:

大明一統,聖壽萬年。
有詔頒降,許人直言。
君量寬海,聖德光天。
賞善罰惡,納諫任賢。
崇儒鑒史,固國輕權。
清心寡慾,益壽彌堅。
踐祚念苦,欲民從輕。
用度節儉,儲積豊盈。
隄防邊塞,操練精兵。
明正網紀,太平風聲。
天長地久,海晏河清。
兆民賴之,萬邦以貞。
有德皇猷,無憂羽翼。
白事具忠,直言諫勸。
居草茅以何酬兮,瞻金門而難入。
托情悃於絲桐兮,聊申懷於雅趣。
鳳凰翔於霄漢兮,覽德輝而斯寓。
麒麟見於郊藪兮,遭聖明而斯集。
吁嗟吁嗟黼黻兮,我曹何能及。
懷九州而想君兮,草莽俱同一。
直言疏進忠義兮,此心何絕期。
高山流水志在兮,白雪陽春陶隱逸。
大明一統號琴名,萬古千秋明聖治。
皇帝萬歲萬萬歲。 (This last line omitted from the version in Yuwu Qinpu)
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