Huang Xian

徵君燕居中夜，鼓琴而歌《豳風》，秦王使左右伺之通於館人。......
徵君理琴至《豳風》之亂，琴不起，必有疑者感之，其秦王乎?......
因云:「夫疑，鬼之門也;明、神之庭也。」君子去疑而存明，未聞汩明而蓄疑也。
Zheng Jun (‘Scholar-Gentleman’, an epithet for Huang Xian) departed from court in the middle watches of the night and played his qin and sang the set of songs ‘Bin feng’ from The Book of Songs. The ruler of the state of Qin sent his personal servants to wait on him, and informed the keeper of the lodgings where he was staying ...
Zheng Jun had set his qin ready and played until the coda of the set of songs ‘Bin feng', but the qin did not rise to the occasion, and that must have been because someone plagued with suspicion had transmitted his state of mind to it; was it the ruler of the state of Qin who had done this?...
Therefore, Zheng Jun remarked: ‘Suspicion is the gateway to the realm of ghosts, whereas enlightenment is the hall of the spirits.’ The Gentleman eliminates suspicion and abides in enlightenment; I have not yet heard that he disturbs (expels) enlight- enment and accumulates suspicion.

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1. 48904.1118 and Bio.2067; Giles: 2nd C. CE: famous for his virtue; Vervoorn. Men of Cliffs and Caves, pp.178-9: renowned recluse. Not to be confused with 黃獻 Huang Xian (compiler of Wugang Qinpu) or the 邵武黃銑 Huang Xian of Shaowu in Fujian (both different Xian). (Return)

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35 lines; source: 蒓湖漫錄 Chunhu Manlu.
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