Motif
kinship-ranked mourning obligations
kinship_ranked_mourning_obligations
A motif of the Sacred Law and Social Order family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
2 occurrences
1 traditions
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 14421-14565 confidence: high
For a father or mother, the mourner travels from early star-visibility until evening star-visibility; if delayed, he assumes mourning dress. At the state frontier he stops and wails, avoids market-place and court, and looks toward his own state’s frontier.
Different procedures apply for father or mother, for rites less than those for parents, for a wife, and for whether the arriving mourner is also the presiding mourner.
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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 14568-14705 confidence: high
For a mother, unlike a father, there is only one tying up of the hair, after which the cincture is worn to the end; otherwise the usages are the same.
The passage distinguishes usages for father, mother, and more distant relations, including differences in hair tying, cincture, sash, and girdle.
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