Confucian Analects · Analects 7.13
When the Master was in Ch'i, he heard the Shao, and for three months did not know the taste of flesh. 'I did not think'' he said, 'that music could have been made so excellent as this.'
Chinese · source text【十三章】子在齊聞韶、三月不知肉味、曰、不圖為樂之至於斯也。
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Confucius · English translation by James Legge · bilingual transcription
James Legge, The Chinese Classics, Volume 1: Confucian Analects · Project Gutenberg #4094
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