It was on the 15th day of the first lunar month, in the year 9 AD, that Wang Mang clasped the hand of the five-year-old emperor, before the assembled ministers and officials of court, and sadly said: "When the Duke of Zhou was regent, he eventually handed back the controls of state, but I, compelled by Heaven's mandate, cannot do the same."
西元九年一月十五日，王莽在滿朝文武百官面前，握著五歲小皇帝的手，不勝欷噓的說：「當年周公攝政，終能歸還大政，我卻迫於天命，不能像周公一樣還政了」，說完，哀嘆良久。