佛祖歷代通載 2.28

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（十四　甲子　四）　帝嚳高辛氏（姓姬。名岐。黃帝曾孫。玄枵孫。蟜玄子。壽一百五歲崩。葬于宜陽）己酉立。在位七十九年。王木德。都亳（今偃師縣）師赤。松子置五行官。以勾芒為木正（少昊之子）祝融為火正（顓頊之子）蓐收為金正（少昊之子）玄冥為水正（亦少昊子）后土為土正（高陽之子）生八才子。謂之八元。造鐺鑊鞞鼓鐘磬塤篪（鼓以皮合木。擊乃鳴。鐘範金合土。似鈴而不圓。高二尺二寸半。厚八分。名懸鐘。磬前長三律二尺七寸。後長二律一尺八寸。名黃鐘。磬塤燒土為之。大如雁卵。銳上平底而有五孔。白虎通云。形如秤鎚有六孔。與周禮少別。箎以竹為之。一尺四寸圍三寸。小者尺二。上有六孔也）凡九代。三百五十年（左傳曰。蒼舒隤敱檮戭大。臨厖降庭堅仲容叔達。謂之八凱。伯奮仲堪叔獻叔豹季仲伯虎仲熊李貍謂之八元也）。

(14. Sexagenary Cycle 4) Emperor Ku, the Gaoxin clan (surname: Ji; personal name: Qi; great-grandson of the Yellow Emperor; grandson of Xuanxiao; son of Jiaoxuan. He died at the age of one hundred and five and was buried in Yiyang). He came to the throne in the jiyou year. He reigned for seventy-nine years. He ruled by the virtue of Wood. His capital was at Bo (present-day Yanshi County). He took Chisongzi as his master. He established the officials of the Five Elements: making Goumang the Wood Officer (son of Shaohao), Zhurong the Fire Officer (son of Zhuanxu), Rushou the Metal Officer (son of Shaohao), Xuanming the Water Officer (also son of Shaohao), and Houtu the Earth Officer (son of Gaoyang). He fathered eight talented sons, known as the Eight Primal Ones. He made cauldrons, pots, pelican-skin drums, bells, musical stones, xun flutes, and chi flutes (drums are made of leather joined with wood, which sound when struck; bells are cast in bronze mixed with clay, resembling handbells but not round, two feet two and a half inches high and eight-tenths of an inch thick, called suspended bells; the front chime-stone is three pitch-pipes long, two feet seven inches, and the rear chime-stone is two pitch-pipes long, one foot eight inches, called the huangzhong stone; the xun is made of fired clay, as large as a wild goose egg, pointed at the top and flat at the bottom, with five holes; the Baihu tong says it is shaped like a steelyard weight with six holes, slightly different from the Zhouli; the chi is made of bamboo, one foot four inches long and three inches in circumference, while a smaller one is one foot two inches, with six holes on top). In all there were nine generations, lasting three hundred and fifty years. (The Zuo zhuan says: Cangshu, Tui'ai, Taoyan, Dalin, Pangjiang, Tingjian, Zhongrong, and Shuda were called the Eight Harmonious Ones. Bofen, Zhongkan, Shuxian, Shubao, Jizhong, Bohu, Zhongxiong, and Jili were called the Eight Primal Ones).