Section 215 Matters of the people

The official rank of the Zhou Dynasty ranged from one life to nine lives, and one life was the lowest official rank in the Zhou Dynasty. The officials of the first life and the guests of the township are ranked according to their age, the officials of the second life and the guests of their own clan are ranked by age, and the officials of the third life are not ranked by age with the guests, but have special seats to show their favor.

The Party is responsible for teaching the people to perform rituals at all sacrifices, funerals, weddings, crown ceremonies, and drinking ceremonies in the Party, and at the same time is in charge of the relevant precepts and prohibitions. The Party will use the relevant laws to govern political affairs when it comes to recruiting people to participate in conquests, field hunting, patrolling, and hard labor.

At the end of the summer year, the party is responsible for summarizing the political affairs of the party and leading the subordinate officials of the party to report their political achievements to the governor. In the first month of the summer calendar, the party needs to gather the people to read the decree and record the virtues and virtues of the people. Throughout the year, the party will personally visit and supervise the comparison of the clan teachers with the people, and this is also the case when the major school comparison is carried out in three years.

The clan master is in charge of the precepts and political affairs of his clan. On the first day of each month, he would gather the people to read the decrees of the state, recording those who were filial to their parents, respected their brothers, married well, and learned well. When there is a sacrifice and celebration, the clan master will do the same. In accordance with the kingdom's law of comparison, the clan teachers would lead the high-ranking officials of the four clans to gather the people at regular times to register the number of their clan, and to distinguish among them the noble, the young, the old, the sick, and those who were able to serve, as well as the number of various livestock and vehicles of the people.

At home, 5 are compared and 10 are linked; In the army, 5 people are in the army, and 10 people are in the team; At home, 4 Lu is a clan, and in the army, 8 Lu is a union; At home and in the army, they pledged to each other, and they shared punishments, celebrations, and rewards, so that they could undertake the ministry of the kingdom, serve the state, and help each other in funerals.

If the people were to be recruited for conquest, hunting, patrolling, and servitude, the clan division would assemble them according to the military establishment, examine their weapons and instruments, and lead the disciples to the village division with drums and banners. At the same time, the clan master was in charge of the governance, prohibition, and punishment of the disciples. At the end of the summer calendar, the clan teacher will summarize the political affairs and report the political achievements.

Lu Xu was in charge of the orders of Ben Lu regarding the collection of taxes and forced labor. Count the number of people in the province according to the four seasons of the year, and distinguish those who are qualified for service and those who should be exempted from service. In the spring and autumn periods, when it was necessary to gather the people for such things as sacrifices, field hunting, village rituals, drinking ceremonies, funerals, etc., and when the people were in school during the four seasons, Lu Xu needed to read the edict to the people and record the virtues of respecting the elders, exercising benevolence and righteousness in a timely manner, trusting friends, and relieving the poor. Whenever there is a gathering of people to prostrate, Lu Xu is in charge of the inspection of the people, the punishment of the disrespectful for drinking, or the whipping of the disrespectful.

than long, each is in charge of the governance of the ratio. The five families trust each other, are in harmony with each other, and if they commit crimes or spread rumors to confuse the public, they will be punished jointly. If the inhabitants of Binet migrated to the capital or to the outskirts, Bichang had to follow the migrants and deliver them to the local officials. If he migrates to other places outside the suburbs, he is given a charm to the migrants to let him on his way. If the migrants do not go longer to deliver, or if there are no symbols, they are to be sent to prison.

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(5) Sealed person/average person

He was in charge of building the high platform of the king's shrine, building a border around Wangji, and planting trees on the boundary to strengthen it. When dividing the vassal states, the feudal people need to build the high platform of the country's society and build borders around the country. When building the Sheji platform and the boundaries of the capital, the feudal people also needed to do the same. When the sacrifice is about to be made, the feudal people will order the people who are responsible for the sacrifice to the shrine and let them do their own according to their duties.

When the sacrifice is about to be held, the feudal people are responsible for washing the cattle used for the sacrifice, setting up horizontal logs for the cattle to wear on the nose of the oxen, tying morning glory ropes, and providing water and wheat straw for the slaughter. When the king welcomed the sacrifice into the court, the feudal people had to sing and dance for the sacrifice, and they were responsible for removing the hair and then concocting it. During funerals, entertaining guests, armies, and assemblies, the feudal people would wash the cattle and cattle used.

The drummer is responsible for teaching 6 types of drums and 4 types of metal percussion instruments to make the five voices harmonize music, which is used to control music, coordinate the army, and direct field hunting. Drummers are responsible for teaching drumming to distinguish between the sound and purpose of the drum. Thunder drums are struck during the worship of the gods, spiritual drums are struck during the worship of the earth gods, road drums are struck during the worship of the temple, rattles are struck during military operations, Xin drums are struck during the rise of the service, and Jin drums are struck when the bells, castings and other musical instruments are struck. The drummer uses the chún to harmonize the drums of the music, the gold bracelets to control the drums of the march, the drums of the golden cymbals to stop the march, and the golden cymbals to give the command and then the snare drums to make a concert.

When worshipping various minor gods, drummers beat drums as the rhythm of the soldier dance and the silk dance. When going out on an expedition, the drummer is responsible for beating the 鼜 (cào) drum at night. The army is about to charge, and the drummers will beat the drums to boost morale. When launching apprenticeship and field hunting, the ancients would also beat the drum in this way to boost morale. In order to save the eclipse of the sun and the moon, the drummer would tell the king to beat the drum. In times of mourning, the drummer will tell the servant to play the drum.