Mourning Dress
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Questions on Mourning
Bashu Publishing House · 2024
When a parent has just died, one wears a cap and hairpin, goes barefoot, tucks up the lower garment, clasps the hands, and wails. A heart of grief, a …
The Intervening Traditions
Bashu Publishing House · 2024
Why is the zhan-cui mourning garment worn with a coarse hemp cap? The cap is of an ugly appearance, whereby the inward grief is first manifested outwa…
Duke Ai's Questions
Bashu Publishing House · 2024
Duke Ai asked Confucius, saying: "What are the great rites like? How lofty is the gentleman's discussion of rites!" Confucius said: "Qiu is a petty ma…
Questions on Mourning Dress
Bashu Publishing House · 2024
The Zhuan states: "There are cases where one follows the lighter and yet it becomes heavier" — the wife of a prince's son wears mourning for his Huang…
The Four Principles of Mourning Dress
Bashu Publishing House · 2024
The general substance of ritual lies in embodying Heaven and Earth, taking the four seasons as its model, following yin and yang, and according with h…