Motif
Austerity as display of extreme grief
austerity_as_display_of_extreme_grief
A motif of the Lament, Mourning, and Tragic Recognition 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 XXVII. FANG At / BOOK XXVIII. AUNG YUNG / BOOK XXIX. PIAO At / RULES ON HURRYING TO MOURNING RITES?.; lines 15305-15456 confidence: high
The three-year mourning marks the greatest grief through jagged sackcloth, dark color, a staff, a shed against the wall, gruel, sleeping on straw, and a clod of earth for a pillow.
The three-year mourning is marked by coarse garments, dark color, staff, poor shelter, simple food, straw bedding, and an earth pillow to set forth extreme grief.
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