Motif
Ancestor presence through tablet placement
ancestor_presence_through_tablet_placement
A motif of the Ancestor Rites and Feeding the Dead 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 XI-XLVI (The Sacred Books of China: The Texts of Confucianism, Part IV; Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 28) PLAN OF THE HALL OF DISTINCTION. / BOOK XII. MING THANG WEI / BOOK XIII. SANG FU HSIAO Al / BOOK XV. SHAO f; lines 6331-6472 confidence: medium
At another’s funeral, the point at which a condoler retires depends on social closeness; intimate friends remain until after the sacrifice of Repose and placement of the spirit-tablet in the shrine.
The passage says intimate friends remain until after the sacrifice of Repose and the placing of the deceased’s spirit-tablet in the shrine.
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