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Confucianism -> Liji -> Tan Gong I -> 63

The wearing of the sackcloth head-bands and girdles,
to express the real (feeling of the heart);
the digging a hole in the middle of the apartment (over which) to wash (the corpse);
taking down the (tiles of the) furnace, and placing them at the feet (of it);
and at the interment
pulling down (part of the wall on the west of the door of) the ancestral temple,
so as to pass by the upper side (of the altar to the spirit) of the way, and issue by the great gate
- these were the practices of the Yin dynasty,
and the learners (in the school of Confucius) followed them.


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