Motif
Death-anniversary mourning and abstention
death_anniversary_mourning_and_abstention
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 XV. SHAO f / THE GREATER RECORD OF MOURNING RITES. / BOOK XX. Al FA / BOOK XXI. At fi; lines 8427-8566 confidence: high
The superior man reverently nourishes living parents and sacrifices to dead parents; lifelong mourning refers to the recurring death-day, when he avoids ordinary work because his thoughts are occupied with them.
The passage states that lifelong mourning refers to recurrence of the parents' death-day, when ordinary work is avoided because thoughts are occupied with them.
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