Motif
Coffin enclosure resembling a house
coffin_enclosure_resembling_a_house
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 XII. MING THANG WEI / BOOK XIII. SANG FU HSIAO Al / BOOK XV. SHAO f / THE GREATER RECORD OF MOURNING RITES.; lines 7851-7979 confidence: medium
The ruler’s coffin is placed on a bier surrounded by high stakes and plastered to look like a house; Great officer and common officer coffins have different covering, staking, plastering, and visibility rules; all are screened.
The ruler’s coffin on a bier is surrounded with stakes and plastered until it has the appearance of a house.
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