洪范

It presents itself as the answer the Shang noble 箕子 gave King Wu of Zhou after the conquest: a great plan of nine categories for ruling, which Heaven had once given Yu the Great. The first category is the 五行, given here in their earliest known list together with their natures, water soaking downward and fire flaring up.

Its 'eight concerns of government' begin with food and goods, which named the 食货志 treatises of the histories, and its rule 惟辟作福，惟辟作威 'only the ruler bestows favour, only the ruler punishes' is the source of 作威作福, now said of anyone who throws their weight around.