The chief of the Chi family was about to sacrifice to the T'ai mountain. The Master said to Zan Yu, 'Can you not save him from this?' He answered, 'I cannot.'…
1The chief of the Chi family was about to sacrifice to the T'ai mountain. The Master said to Zan Yu, 'Can you not save him from this?' He answered, 'I cannot.' Confucius said, 'Alas! will you say that the T'ai mountain is not so discerning as Lin Fang?'
The notes printed with this passage in Chinese editions, kept in Chinese, for readers who come to the text that way.
旅：祭山，这里作动词用。在当时，只有天子和诸侯才有资格祭祀名山大川。
冉有：名求，字子有，孔子的学生，比孔子小二十九岁。冉有当时在季氏门下做事。