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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for a parent, when the chief mourner took the cup offered to him by the chief among the visitors, he raised it to his teeth, while the visitors, brothers, and cousins all sipped the cups presented to them, After the sacrifice at the end of the second year, the chief mourner might sip his cup, while all the visitors, brothers, and cousins might drink off their cups.
11. The attendants at the sacrifices during the funeral rites give notice to the visitors to present the offerings, of which, however, they did not afterwards partake.
12. Zze-kung asked about the rites of mourning (for parents), and the Master said, 'Reverence is the most important thing ; grief is next to it; and emaciation is the last. The face should wear the appearance of the inward feeling, and the demeanour and carriage should be in accordance with the dress.'
He begged to ask about the mourning for a brother, and the Master said, “The rites of mourning for a brother are to be found in the tablets where they are written.'
13. A superior man will not interfere with the mourning of other men to diminish it, nor will he do so with his own mourning?
14. Confucius said, 'Shâo-lien and Tå-lien demeaned themselves skilfully during their mourning (for their parents). During the (first) three days they were alert; for the (first) three months they manifested no weariness; for the (first) year they were full of grief; for the (whole) three years they were
"The Rhien-lung editors think paragraph 13 is out of place, and would place it farther on, after paragraph 43.
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