Motif
Age-ordered deference as social order
age_ordered_deference_as_social_order
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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1 traditions
confucian
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The Li Ki, Books XI-XLVI (The Sacred Books of China: The Texts of Confucianism, Part IV; Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 28) BOOK XV. SHAO f / THE GREATER RECORD OF MOURNING RITES. / BOOK XX. Al FA / BOOK XXI. At fi; lines 9211-9347 confidence: high
A junior walks slightly behind or follows an older person; people in carriages or on foot move aside for an old man; persons with mixed white and black hair do not carry burdens on roads.
The passage repeatedly presents precedence by age in roads, villages, hunts, army, schools, clan meetings, and court as a normative ordering principle.
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