一切經音義 6.49

6.49

Reciting and chanting (諷誦: the first is pronounced with the fanqie [風]鳳 [fèng]; the second with the fanqie 徐用 [yòng]. Zheng's commentary on the Rites of Zhou says: "Reciting without the text is called feng; regulating it with melodic rhythm is called song." The Preface to the Mao Commentary on the Classic of Poetry states: "Superiors use feng to transform those below; inferiors use feng to satirize those above." In the Shuowen, the two characters define each other: feng is song, and song is feng. Both have the semantic element on the left and phonetic on the right. In the sūtra text it is written with 'gong' as 頌 [sòng]; although commonly interchangeable, it is not the original character, nor its original pronunciation or form, hence it is not adopted here).