Motif
Ancestral tablets as movable ritual authority
ancestral_tablets_as_movable_ritual_authority
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 14274-14399 confidence: high
Confucius says the son of Heaven carried a tablet in the carriage of Reverence on inspection tours; taking all seven temple-shrine tablets on expedition is called an error, and shrines should not be left empty except in specified cases.
The passage treats ancestral tablets as objects normally fixed in shrines but movable in restricted rites or with a ruler under exceptional circumstances.
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