3. 师命 may be as in the translation, or—'the appointment to the position of a Tutor', i.e. honorary adviser to the king. This is the interpretation of the glossarist of Chao Ch'?, and is perhaps preferable to the former.
T'?NG W?N KUNG. PART I
CHAPTER I
1. When the prince, afterwards duke W?n of T'?ng,had to go to Ch'?, he went by way of Sung, and visited Mencius.