CHAPTER XII

_ANCESTRAL WORSHIP_

Ancestral tablets carried in war-Shrines graduated according to

rank--Description of shrines--Specific case of the King of Ts'u--

Instance of the First August Emperor much later--Temple of Heaven,

Peking, and the British occupation of it--Modern Japanese instance

of reporting to Heaven and ancestors--Tsin and Ts'i instances of

it--Sacrificial tablets--Writing materials--Lu's special spiritual

status--Desecration of tombs and flogging of corpses--Destruction

of ancestral temples--Imperial presents of sacrificial meat--

Fasting and purification--Intricate mourning rules. So-65

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