Shi Jing, The Book of Odes: Odes of the Temple&Altar, Sacrificial Odes of Zhou, Min Yu Xiao Zi

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* If you haven't read it yet, chapter one, on tetrasyllabic shi poetry, in How to Read Chinese Poetry is hugely useful for the Book of Odes, imo. 

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294. 桓 - Huan

[x_los]

綏萬邦、婁豐年。
天命匪解。
桓桓武王、保有厥士。
于以四方、克定厥家。
於昭于天。
皇以閒之。

There is peace throughout our myriad regions;
There has been a succession of plentiful years:
Heaven does not weary in its favour.
The martial king Wu,
Maintained [the confidence of] his officers,
And employed them all over the kingdom,
So securing the establishment of his Family.
Oh! glorious was he in the sight of Heaven,
Which kinged him in the room [of Shang].

Re: 294. 桓 - Huan

[x_los]

"Which kinged him in the room [of Shang]." instead of? in place of?

Re: 294. 桓 - Huan

[superborb]

Legge has chosen a diff interpretation than the Baike gloss-- instead of 'room' (literal modern meaning), Baike glosses as to supervise / control.

But that line basically means he replaced the Shang.