Motif
Ancestor tablets ordered by rank and descent
ancestor_tablets_ordered_by_rank_and_descent
A motif of the Royal Legitimacy and Sacred Kingship 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 XI. YU 3A0 / PLAN OF THE HALL OF DISTINCTION. / BOOK XII. MING THANG WEI / BOOK XIII. SANG FU HSIAO Al; lines 2148-2310 confidence: high
The passage lays out where tablets of ordinary officers, Great officers, wives, concubines, feudal lords, and the son of Heaven may or may not be placed in ancestral shrines, observing relative positions of fathers and sons.
The passage treats shrine placement of tablets as governed by rank, descent, and relative positions of father and son.
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