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The Book of Rites
How should a son greet his father in the morning, how long should a widow mourn, how is a king buried, what music suits a feast, and why does any of it matter? The Book of Rites is the great Han compilation of Confucian ritual teaching, forty-nine chapters ranging from minute rules of etiquette and mourning dress to the philosophical essays that became the Great Learning and the Doctrine of the Mean. It contains the monthly ordinances of the ruler, the record of music, the meaning of the archery contest and the marriage rite, the ideal of the Great Unity, and countless anecdotes of Confucius and his disciples. This complete new English translation renders the whole received text in clear modern English, the most complete picture of how ancient China imagined an ordered life.
