Religions of Ancient China
Religions of Ancient China
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--Intimately connected with ancestral worship is thepractice of filial piety; it is in fact on filial piety that ancestralworship is dependent for its existence. In early ages, sons sacrificedto the manes of their parents and ancestors generally, in order toafford some mysterious pleasure to the disembodied spirits. There wasthen no idea of propitiation, of benefits to ensue. In later times, thecharacter of the sacrifice underwent a change, until a sentiment of _dout des_ became the real mainsp...ring of the ceremony. Meanwhile, Confuciushad complained that the filial piety of his day only meant the supportof parents. "But, " argued the Sage, "we support our dogs and our horses;without reverence, what is there to distinguish one from the other?" Heaffirmed that children who would be accounted filial should give theirparents no cause of anxiety beyond such anxiety as might be occasionedby ill-health. Filial piety, he said again, did not consist in relievingthe parents of toil, or in setting before them wine and food; it didconsist in serving them while alive according to the established rules, in burying them when dead according to the established rules, and insacrificing to them after death, also according to the establishedrules.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
--Intimately connected with ancestral worship is thepractice of filial piety; it is in fact on filial piety that ancestralworship is dependent for its existence. In early ages, sons sacrificedto the manes of their parents and ancestors generally, in order toafford some mysterious pleasure to the disembodied spirits. There wasthen no idea of propitiation, of benefits to ensue. In later times, thecharacter of the sacrifice underwent a change, until a sentiment of _dout des_ became the real mainsp...ring of the ceremony. Meanwhile, Confuciushad complained that the filial piety of his day only meant the supportof parents. "But, " argued the Sage, "we support our dogs and our horses;without reverence, what is there to distinguish one from the other?" Heaffirmed that children who would be accounted filial should give theirparents no cause of anxiety beyond such anxiety as might be occasionedby ill-health. Filial piety, he said again, did not consist in relievingthe parents of toil, or in setting before them wine and food; it didconsist in serving them while alive according to the established rules, in burying them when dead according to the established rules, and insacrificing to them after death, also according to the establishedrules.
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