折疑論 3.111

3.111

The guest said, "Zhongni said, 'The Yi and Di barbarians having rulers is not like the various Xia states lacking them' (Wang was anciently written for wu [lacking]. The Analects says: Although the Yi and Di have rulers and chiefs, they are not like the usurpations and disorders of the Xia states, where on the contrary there is no distinction between high and low. This was Confucius lamenting and sighing over the disorder of the contemporary rulers. Although they had rulers, they did not practice their Way; it was not that they literally had none).