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Emperor Yao (2356-2255 B.C.E.),
visits a village incognito, asks,
“What do you think of
Emperor Yao?”

“What’s an emperor?
What’s a Yao?”

How great
was Yao, say
Buddhists, Taoists,
Confucianists, Maoists;
he let the people
forget him.