Motif
ancestral reverence attached to planted trees
ancestral_reverence_attached_to_planted_trees
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 Sacred Books of China: The Texts of Confucianism, Part I - The Shu King, the Religious Portions of the Shih King, the Hsiao King (Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 3) THE MINOR ODES OF THE KINGDOM. / DECADE I, / THE WU YANG IS SUPPOSED TO CELEBRATE THE LARGENESS AND / ODE 7. THE MINOR ODES OF THE KINGDOM.; lines 14973-15044 confidence: medium
The speaker says mulberry trees and rottleras must be reverenced, no one is like a father or mother, asks about connection with the father’s hairs and mother’s womb, and asks Heaven why he was born at an inauspicious time.
The poem says mulberry trees and rottleras must be regarded with reverence, and the note explains that such trees recalled ancestors who first planted them.
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