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The Religions of China: Confucianism and Tâoism Described and Compared With Christianity (Classic Reprint)
The Religions of China Confucianism and Toism Described and Compared With Christianity - Classic Reprint Author:James Legge Excerpt from The Religions of China: Confucianism and Tâoism Described and Compared With Christianity — The dualistic phrase heaven and earth used for the single terms, Heaven and Ti - Judgment of Confucius about the solstitial sacrifices - Expansion of his judgment by the author - How the dualistic name continued, and is guarded against being mi... more »sunderstood - Announcement by the first emperor of the present dynasty - The Yî King and its subject-matter - On the divination of the old Chinese - Appendixes to the Yî by Confucius - Two sentences from one of them - Prayers to Shang Ti at a special solstitial sacrifice in A.D. 1538 - Conclusions from those prayers - The offerings at the solstitial services are oblations, not propitiatory sacrifices - The idea of substitution is not unknown in Chinese history, but has no part in the religious services - The solstitial service is an acknowledgment for himself and his line and the nation of their obligations to God - The emperor does not preside at the services as a priest - Ancient division of the Chinese community into four classes, with no indication of a priesthood - The place of that supplied to some extent by the cultured class; Notes; The worship of their forefathers by all the Chinese people - Filial piety - the worship of parents a part of it - Filial piety and worship of Shun; and subsequently down to the Chau dynasty - Living representatives of the dead then employed - Further description of the filial piety and worship of the Chau kings
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