《周礼·夏官司马·大司马》
就杜塞他同邻国交通的途径；有外内悖乱人伦，行为如同禽兽的，就诛灭他。周历正月初一，开始向各诸侯国和王畿内的采邑宣布政法，把形成文字的政法悬挂在象魏上，让万民观看政法，过十天而后收藏起来。依照划分九畿的簿籍，分施各诸篌自所当奉行的政治和职责。
正月之吉，始和，布政于邦国都鄙，乃悬政象之法于象魏，使万民观政象，挟日，而敛之，乃以九畿之籍施邦国之政职。
Traversing the accessible routes from his state to bordering nations, he acts in disorder with outsiders and insiders, behaves like an animal, so execute him entirely. On the first day of the first month of Zhou calendar, he promulgates the laws and ordinances to the feudal lords and the fiefdoms within the capital, suspends the laws and ordinances on the elephant platform, lets population watch the laws and ordinances, and collects them after ten days. Depending on the registers classifying the nine frontiers, he separately grants the political and responsible duties to the feudal lords.