SBE 3: Part I: The Book of Thang: The Canon of Yâo

32:2 The Han scholars held that Fang-hsün was the name of Yâo. Those of Sung, taking the characters as an epithet, make them signify 'the Highly Meritorious.' 32:3 The Hsîs and Hos seem to 'have been brothers of two families, on whom devolved the care of the calendar, principally with a view to regulate the seasons of agriculture. See Parts III, iv, and V, xxvii. On Yâo's directions to them, see the Introduction, pp. 24-28. 33:1 Yü-î is by some identified with Tăng-kâu, in Shan-tung, lat. 37° 48´ long. 12° 4´; by others, it is sought in Corea. 33:2 Nan-kiâo was south, it is said, on the border of An-nan or Cochin-China. The characters for 'in what was called the Brilliant Capital' are supposed to have dropt out of the text. 34:1 In Part II, iv, 2, Yü speaks of this son of Yâo as 'the haughty Kû of Tan,' Tan probably being the name of a state, over which, according to tradition, he had been appointed. 34:2 Hwan-tâu and the Minister of Works, whom he recommends, appear in the next Book as great criminals. 35:1 (President of) the Four Mountains, or simply Four Mountains, appears to have been the title of the chief minister of Yâo. The four mountains were--mount Thâi in the east; Hwâ in the west in Shan-hsî; Hăng in the south, in Hû-nan; and Hăng in the north, in Kih-lî. These, probably, were the limits of the country, so far as known, and all within these points were the care of the chief minister.