Text of Confucianism Part 01

SR No.: 007675
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: James Legge
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1879
Total Pages: 2829
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 50 MB

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THE Li xi.
BK. VII.
12. “These services having been completed, they retire, and cook again all that was insufficiently done. The dogs, pigs, bullocks, and sheep are dismembered. The shorter dishes (round and square), the taller ones of bamboo and wood, and the soup vessels are all filled. There are the prayers which express the filial piety (of the worshipper), and the benediction announcing the favour (of his ancestors). This may be called the greatest omen of prosperity; and in this the ceremony obtains its grand completion?'
SECTION II. 1. Confucius said, “Ah! Alas ! I look at the ways of Kâu. (The kings) Ya2 and Lis corrupted them indeed, but if I leave La, where shall I go (to find them better)? The border sacrifice of La, (however,) and (the association with it of) the founder of the line (of Kâu) is contrary to propriety ;-how have (the institutions of) the duke of Kâu fallen into decay' ! At the border sacrifice in Khi, Yü was the assessor, and at that in Sung, Hsieh ; but these were observ
? This last paragraph appears to me to give a very condensed account of the banquet to a ruler's kindred, with which a service in the ancestral temple concluded. Paragraphs 10, 11, 12 are all descriptive of the parts of such a service. Compare the accounts of it in the Shih II, vi, ode 5, and other pieces. ? B.C. 781-771.
B. C. 878-828. • That the sacrificial ceremonies of Lû were in many things corrupted in LQ in the time of Confucius is plain to the reader of the Analects. How the corruption first began is a subject of endless controversy. It seems to be established that special privileges were granted in this respect to the duke of Kâu and his son, Po-khin. Guarded at first and innocent, encroachments were made by successive princes, as the vigour of the royal authority declined; and by-and-by as those princes became them
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