Possibly bc the it's addressing the new king, the pronoun choice is a more respectful one.
'Black-haired race, in all their surnames': Baike simply glosses the first two characters as the masses, the working people, and the second pair as the aristocracy, the 100 surnames of the officials. I think Legge gets black haired from the second character, which is a literary word to mean black, but also means multitude.
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Re: 166. 天保 - Tian Bao
Date: 2021-03-28 10:39 pm (UTC)'Black-haired race, in all their surnames': Baike simply glosses the first two characters as the masses, the working people, and the second pair as the aristocracy, the 100 surnames of the officials. I think Legge gets black haired from the second character, which is a literary word to mean black, but also means multitude.