Motif
Disposition of bodily remnants with or apart from coffin
disposition_of_bodily_remnants_with_or_apart_from_coffin
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: high
Hair and nails of a ruler and Great officer are placed in bags at the four corners of the coffin; those of an officer are buried without being put in the coffin.
Hair and nails of rulers and Great officers are placed in bags at the four corners of the coffin, while those of an officer are buried without being put in the coffin.
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