Motif
age-graded life-stage privileges and exemptions
age_graded_life_stage_privileges_and_exemptions
A motif of the Sacred Law and Social Order family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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confucian
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The Li Ki, Books I-X (The Sacred Books of China: The Texts of Confucianism, Part III; Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 27) SECT. II. PT. II. THE THAN KUNG. IOI / APPENDIX, TO BOCK UL / DEGREES, / SELF.; lines 10716-10859 confidence: high
Those aged fifty, sixty, and seventy receive nourishment in district schools, the smaller state school, and the college respectively; an eighty-year-old and the blind acknowledge the ruler's message by kneeling and head-touching, while a ninety-year-old uses another to receive it.
Ages fifty, sixty, seventy, eighty, and ninety are used as thresholds for nourishment, staff use, service exemptions, retirement, and mourning obligations.
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