Motif
Embodied representation of the dead in ritual
embodied_representation_of_the_dead_in_ritual
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 14839-14974 confidence: medium
3ang-3ze asks what a minister or Great officer should do if appointed personator of the dead for his ruler while a family mourning duty occurs; Confucius says he should lodge in a state hotel until the ruler’s business is completed.
A minister or Great officer acts as personator of the dead for the ruler and receives formal signs of respect after representing the dead.
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