佛祖歷代通載 2.29

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（十五　甲子　五）　帝堯陶唐氏（姓伊祁。名放勛。黃帝玄孫。帝嚳次子。娠十四月而生。眉分八采。土堦茅室）甲辰立。在位九十八年。王火德。都平陽（今晉州）又遷安邑。通舜為政。一百一十八年（始丙寅終癸卯舜喪服二年至乙巳。壽一百八十崩。葬穀林。諡翼善傳聖曰堯）號年曰載。師具英先生。命羲和曆象日月星辰。敬授民時。天降牝羊（名觸邪。死埋殿右。生蓂莢草。高八尺。月朔生一葉。至望全十五葉。望後凋一葉。至晦凋盡。有羔名獬豸。死葬殿左。生朱草長一丈。名指佞草）立衡室作圍棊（三百六十路象三十六旬。教丹朱矣）作大樂章。嘉禾茂鳳皇來。有賢人三十二人（未詳名姓）立敢諫鼓洪水九年（命鯀及禹治之）十日並現（命羿射之。九禽斃于地。儒說東南有羲和國。有女名羲和。生十日浴于海中。王時十日並現。羿射之九。唯一在焉○張羿善射人也。甞於西王母處得不死藥。乃獸芝也。妻盜食之。奔入月宮。名嫦娥。因此月名蟾蜍。即田父矣）。

(15. Sexagenary Cycle 5) Emperor Yao, the Taotang clan (surname: Yiqi; personal name: Fangxun; great-great-grandson of the Yellow Emperor; second son of Emperor Ku. He was born after a pregnancy of fourteen months. His eyebrows displayed eight colors. He lived with earthen steps and a thatched roof). He came to the throne in the jiachen year. He reigned for ninety-eight years. He ruled by the virtue of Fire. His capital was at Pingyang (present-day Jinzhou), and was later moved to Anyi. Counting Shun's regency, he governed for one hundred and eighteen years (beginning in the bingyin year and ending in the guimao year; Shun observed mourning for two years until the yisi year; he died at the age of one hundred and eighteen, was buried at Gulin, and received the posthumous title Yao, meaning 'assisting goodness and transmitting sagehood'). He designated years as zai. He took Gentleman Juying as his master. He commanded Xi and He to calculate and delineate the images of the sun, moon, stars, and constellations, and reverently bestow the seasons upon the people. Heaven sent down a female sheep (named Chuxie; when it died, it was buried to the right of the palace hall, and the mingjia plant sprouted, eight feet tall, growing one leaf on the first of each month until the full moon when it had fifteen leaves, and shedding one leaf each day after the full moon until none remained at the end of the month; there was a lamb named Xiezhi; when it died, it was buried to the left of the palace hall, and the cinnabar grass sprouted, one zhang tall, named the flatterer-pointing grass). He established the Hall of Balance and created go (its three hundred and sixty paths symbolising the thirty-six decades; he taught it to Danzhu). He composed the Great Music Chapter. Auspicious grain flourished and phoenixes arrived. There were thirty-two worthy men (whose names are not detailed). He instituted the drum for those daring to admonish. There was a flood for nine years (commanding Gun and Yu to control it). Ten suns appeared simultaneously (he ordered Yi to shoot them, and nine birds fell dead to the ground. Confucian traditions say that to the southeast lay the state of Xihe, where a woman named Xihe gave birth to ten suns and bathed them in the sea; during this king's time, ten suns appeared simultaneously, and Yi shot nine of them, leaving only one. Note: Zhang Yi was a skilled archer; he once obtained the elixir of immortality from the Queen Mother of the West, which was an animal fungus; his wife stole and ate it, and fled into the moon palace, being named Chang'e; hence the moon is called the Toad, and he is the Old Man of the Field).