Motif
Ancestral tablet retention and removal by generational rank
ancestral_tablet_retention_and_removal_by_generational_rank
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 2754-2882 confidence: high
The Greater Honoured Head's tablet is not removed for a hundred generations; smaller Honoured Heads' tablets are removed after five generations; honouring the ancestor leads to reverencing the Head.
The passage contrasts a tablet not removed for a hundred generations with smaller Heads' tablets removed after five generations.
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