Original text:
Zhang Heng, a native of Nanyang. Hengshan Mountain belongs to the literature and swims in the third auxiliary. Because when I entered the capital, I saw imperial academy, learned the Five Classics and thoroughly understood the Six Arts. Although only above the world, there is no arrogance. Often calm and quiet, it is not easy to make friends. In Yongyuan, filial piety is not good, and even building a house is not good. The world is long, and since the princes are wasted. Heng Nai designated Ban Gu's Er Du Fu as Er Du Fu because of its satirical admonition. If you think about it carefully, you will succeed in ten years. General Deng Zhi is so talented that he shouldn't be called when he is tired.
Well-balanced and smart, especially thinking about astronomical yin and yang calendar calculation. Andy heard about Hengshan's medical skills and the characteristics of bus worshipping doctors, so he moved to Taishiling. So he studied Yin and Yang, made a wonderful machine, made an armillary sphere, and wrote Lingxian and Analects of Confucius, which were very detailed.
Beginning in Shun Di, it was restored to Taishiling. If you don't envy the present world, the officials of the world you live in will not migrate for several years. It has been five years since I left my post as a historian.
In the first year of Yangjia, the seismograph after the wind was rebuilt. It is made of copper and has a diameter of eight feet. It is covered and raised in the shape of a wine statue, a turtle decorated with seal script, a bird and a beast. All of them are pillars, eight-way, and the engine is turned off. There are eight dragons outside. The first one is a copper pill, and the next one is a toad. Open your mouth and accept it. Its teeth are cleverly made, all hidden in respect, and its coverage is endless. If there is an earthquake, the statue will shake the dragon, the machine will spit out pills and the toad will hold it. The vibration was so exciting that the waiters noticed it. Although Yilong started the engine, Qige didn't move, and the air was full of places that knew about the earthquake. Test it with something, it is like a god. Since it is recorded in the book, there is nothing left. After tasting the opportunity of Yi Long, I didn't know its meaning, and the scholars in the capital blamed it for its lack of levy. A few days later, the post arrived, and there was an earthquake in Longxi. Everyone was convinced. Since then, it has made historians remember what to do.
When political affairs are gradually damaged and power moves to the lower level, the balance is based on the past. ……
At the beginning, he was good at martial arts and described the ancestors of Xian Zong and Su Zongyin. Since ZTE, the Confucians have been fighting for the exotic and the beautiful, and the knowledge of map latitude and longitude has been accompanied by vicious words. Balance is illusory, not a saint's law, but a sparse law. ……
After moving clothes, the emperor led the way and satirized the discussion. Ask those sick and evil people in the world. Eunuchs are afraid of their own destruction, and they all see it in their eyes, and the scales are specious. I'm afraid I'll be castrated eventually, so I swear.
Always thinking about the body, thinking that good or bad depends on the body, which is difficult to understand. It was written as "Fu Xuan" to express feelings. ……
At the beginning of Yonghe, it was a river phase. At that time, the king was arrogant and disobeyed the constitution; How arrogant, * * * is not good. Weigh the car, rule the majesty, improve the statutes, know the name of the traitor by Yin, and gather birds for a while, which is called politics. For three years, I have written to beg for bones and worship ministers. In sixty-two, Yonghe died in four years.
When Cui Yuan wrote the exegesis of Zhou Guan, he thought that he could not be different from other Confucianism. People who want to say "Xun" and "Xiang" are incomplete according to Confucius' Book of Changes can't do it. There are 32 poems, including Fu, Ming, Seven-character poems, Lingxian poems, Yingxian poems, Seven-sided poems, poems and drawings.
Translation:
Zhang Heng, a native of Nanyang County. When Zhang Heng was young, he was good at writing articles and went to Chang 'an, the old capital of the Western Han Dynasty, and conducted investigations and studies in its vicinity. He also took this opportunity to visit Luoyang, the capital, and study in imperial academy, so he became familiar with the Five Classics and Six Arts. Although the intelligence was higher than the average person at that time, he was not arrogant. He is always calm, cold and quiet, and doesn't like to associate with vulgar people. (Han and Emperor) During the first year of Yongzheng, he was recommended as Xiaolian, but was not recommended; Sangong repeatedly called to find a position (He) and did not respond. At that time, the society was peaceful for a long time, and everyone from governors to officials below was extravagant. Zhang Heng wrote an article "Er Du Fu" imitating Ban Gu's "Er Du Fu" to satirize and exhort. The carefully conceived work took ten years to complete. General Deng Zhi thought he was a wizard and called him many times, but he didn't respond.
Zhang Heng is good at mechanical manufacturing skills, especially concentrating on astronomy, meteorology and age prediction. Han Andi often heard that Zhang Heng was proficient in astronomy, calendar and other skills, so he sent an official car to ask Zhang Heng to appoint him as a doctor, and later he was promoted to Taishiling. So he studied and inspected the changes in nature, skillfully and thoroughly mastered the principles of celestial instruments, made armillary sphere, and wrote calendar and mathematics works such as Lingxian and Arithmetic, which were very detailed and clear.
In the early years of (Korea), (Zhang Heng) transferred back to Taishiling. He doesn't respect high-ranking officials, and his position often doesn't rise for many years. From leaving Taishiling's post to re-employment five years later.
(Shun Di) In the first year of Yangjia, (Zhang Heng) built a seismograph to wait for the wind. It is made of pure copper, eight feet in diameter, with a raised lid in the center, which looks like a big wine bottle. The outside is decorated with seal characters and patterns of mountains, turtles, birds and animals. There is a thick copper column in the center of the room, eight slideways extend around the copper column, and a wheel hub (for poking machine parts) is installed. There are eight bronze dragons outside. There is a copper pill in each dragon's mouth. There is a toad under the dragon's mouth, ready to catch the copper pill spit out by the dragon's mouth. The hub and parts of the instrument are cleverly made, and they are all hidden in the bottle-shaped instrument, and there is no gap in the coverage. If there is an earthquake, the dragon outside the instrument will vibrate, the mechanism will start, the dragon mouth will spit out copper pills, and the toad below will catch them. The sound of the earthquake is clear and loud, and people waiting for the instrument know that there has been an earthquake. Although only one dragon was started, the other seven faucets did not move at all. If you look for its direction, you can know where the earthquake happened. The actual earthquake is used to test the instruments, which are completely consistent with each other and really effective. Judging from the records of ancient books, there is no such instrument. Once the one-stop mechanism was started, but (Luoyang) did not feel the earthquake. Scholars in Beijing were surprised that the instrument was not successful. A few days later, the correspondent at the post station came to prove that there was an earthquake in Longxi, and they were all amazed at the exquisiteness of the seismograph. From then on, (the imperial court) instructed the historian to record the location of each earthquake according to the seismograph.
At that time, politics became more and more corrupt and power fell into the hands of eunuchs. So Zhang Heng gave the emperor a brief political statement and put forward political opinions. ……
At the beginning of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Han Guangwu liked divination, and later Xian Zong and Su Zong inherited and imitated him. After Emperor Guangwu of Han Dynasty revived the Han Dynasty, Confucian scholars scrambled to learn divination and divination, which was accompanied by confusing fallacies and heresies. Zhang Heng thought that Illustration and Shu Wei were false and absurd, not the laws of saints, so he taught the emperor a lesson. ……
Later, Zhang Heng was promoted to assistant, and Shundi appointed him to the imperial court to express his opinions on the state affairs around him. Shun Di once asked Zhang Heng who he hated all over the world. The eunuchs stared at him for fear that he would speak ill of himself. Zhang Heng answered with some elusive words and came out. These eunuchs were still worried that Zhang Heng would eventually become their scourge, so they ganged up and slandered Zhang Heng.
Zhang Heng often thinks about his own safety, and thinks that the fortunes are related, hidden and hard to know. So he wrote "Fu Xuan" to express and entrust his feelings and interests. ……
(Shun Di) In the early years of Yonghe, Zhang Heng was transferred from Beijing to Hejian Wang as Prime Minister. At that time, Hejian Wang was arrogant and extravagant, and did not abide by laws and regulations; In Hejian area, there are many rich and powerful families who run amok with Liu Zheng. As soon as Zhang Heng arrived, he established his prestige, rectified the legal system and secretly found out the names of some traitors. All of them were arrested at once, and the officials and people were awed and praised the political clarity in Hejian area. After managing Hejian government affairs for three years, Zhang Heng wrote to the imperial court and asked to resign and retire, but the imperial court transferred him back to Beijing and appointed him as senior minister. (Zhang Heng) lived to be sixty-two years old and died in Yonghe in four years.
Cui Yuan thinks that Zhou Guan's exegesis is no different from other Confucian scholars' explanations. I also wanted to inherit the unfinished part of the research, such as Xun and Xiang, but I failed to finish it in the end. He wrote 32 poems, including Fu, Ming, Seven-character Poems, Lingxian, Yingxian, Seven Arguments, Gu Xun and Xing Tu.