Motif
Ancestral remembrance through temple, shrine, and descendant obligations
ancestral_remembrance_through_temple_shrine_and_descendant_obligations
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 I-X (The Sacred Books of China: The Texts of Confucianism, Part III; Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 27) BOOK IV. THE YUEH LING / SUPPLEMENTARY SECTION. / Part TL / BOOK V. THE QUESTIONS OF 3ANG-3ZE1; lines 15550-15688 confidence: high
In the ancestral temple, rank exalts virtue; the temple superintendent assigns services by office; the eldest son by the proper wife ascends, takes precedence in partaking of what remains, and receives the cup to honor the ancestor.
Temple precedence, guarding the Grand ancestor's temple, protecting spirit-tablets, and announcing life events to ancestral shrines all keep kinship and ancestor honor in view.
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