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advice of Mencius, and then to proceed to its various
services. ”

Ran You accordingly proceeded to Zou, and
consulted Mencius.

Mencius said, “Is this not good? In discharging
the funeral duties to parents, men indeed feel
constrained to do their utmost. The philosopher
Zeng said, ‘When parents are alive, they should be
served according to propriety; when they are dead,
they should be buried according to propriety; and
they should be sacrificed to according to propriety;—
this may be called filial piety.’ The ceremonies to
be observed by the princes I have not learned, but
I have heard these points:—that the three years’
mourning, the garment of coarse cloth with its lower
edge even, and the eating of congee, were equally
prescribed by the three dynasties, and binding on all,
from the sovereign to the mass of the people. ”

Ran You reported the execution of his

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