Motif
ancestral tablet placement by lineage relation
ancestral_tablet_placement_by_lineage_relation
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) BOOK XI. YU 3A0 / PLAN OF THE HALL OF DISTINCTION. / BOOK XII. MING THANG WEI / BOOK XIII. SANG FU HSIAO Al; lines 2312-2457 confidence: high
If no concubine of the husband’s grandmother has a tablet by which the deceased concubine’s tablet may be placed, it may be placed by the grandmother’s tablet, with the offered victim changed.
The passage repeatedly regulates where tablets of concubines, wives, and husbands are placed relative to grandmothers, husbands, and wives.
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