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Senior Officials

The small burial is inside the house, and the big burial is in the east. The king uses bamboo mats, the senior officials use cattail mats, and the scholars use reed mats. Small burial: cloth twisted, one shrunken and three horizontal. The king has a brocade quilt, the senior officials have a white quilt, and the scholars have a black quilt, all one. The clothes are nineteen pieces, the king displays the clothes in the east of the order; the senior officials and scholars display the clothes in the room; all have the west collar and the north. Twisted and spun silk are not in the list. Big burial: cloth twisted, three shrunken and five horizontal, cloth and spun silk quilts. The king, the senior officials and scholars have one. The king displays his clothes in the courtyard, with a hundred pieces, and the north collar goes up to the west; the senior officials display their clothes in the east of the order, with fifty pieces, and the west collar goes up to the south; the scholars display their clothes in the east of the order, with thirty pieces, and the west collar goes up to the south. The twisted silk is like the court dress, twisted into three pieces, without opening, and silk is five pieces, without tucks. The clothes for the small burial are not turned upside down. The king has no tucks, and the senior officials and scholars finish the sacrificial clothes of the host; the clothes of relatives are not displayed immediately after receiving them. For the small burial, the king, the senior officials and scholars all use double clothes and double quilts; for the large burial, the king, the senior officials and scholars have no number of sacrificial clothes. The king has pleated clothes and pleated quilts, and the senior officials and scholars are the same as the small burial. The robe must have a cover, not a fold, and the clothes must have a skirt, which is called a one-piece. All clothes are filled in the box, and those who take the clothes also go up with the box, and those who go down from the west steps. All clothes are displayed without bending, and they are not allowed to be put in unless they are arranged in a row, and silk and linen are not allowed to be put in.

Cat Story

When Emperor Ming of Jin was a few years old, he sat on Emperor Yuan's lap. Someone came from Chang'an, and Emperor Yuan asked about the news from Luoxia, and burst into tears. Emperor Ming asked why he was crying. I told him my intention to cross the river to the east. He then asked Emperor Ming, "How far do you think Chang'an is compared to the sun?" He replied, "The sun is far away. Haven't you heard that people come from the side of the sun? How can you know it?" Emperor Yuan was surprised. Tomorrow I will gather all the ministers for a banquet, inform them of this intention, and ask them again. He replied, "The sun is near." The Yuan Emperor was dismayed and asked, "Why do you say something different from what you said yesterday?" He replied, "I can see the sun but not Chang'an."

I am a Northeastern spirit

The all-round agent of the beautiful teacher

When Wei Jie first crossed the Yangtze River, he met General Wang. Because he was sitting at night, the general ordered Xie Youyu. When Jie saw Xie, he was so pleased that he no longer paid any attention to the king, and they talked in silence until dawn. The king was not able to enjoy the night. Jie was always weak and was always forbidden by his mother. That evening, he suddenly became seriously ill and never got up again.

I have a breath of fairy

The Master said, “If there is a car, you must see its rails; if there is a garment, you must see its wear; if someone talks about it, you must hear its sound; if someone walks about it, you must see its completion. The Ge Tan says, ‘If you wear it, you must shoot it.’” The Master said, “If you follow what you say, then your words cannot be embellished; if you follow what you say, then your actions cannot be embellished. Therefore, a gentleman speaks little, but walks to establish his credibility, so that the people cannot exaggerate his virtues and minimize his faults. The Book of Songs says, ‘The stain on the jade tablet can still be polished; the stain on this speech cannot be made.’ The Xiaoya says, ‘The gentleman is sincere, and the development is great.’ The Jun Shi says, ‘In the past, when the God of Heaven was in power, Zhou Tian observed the virtue of King Wen, and he gathered the great destiny in his body.’” The Master said, “The southerners have a saying, ‘If a man is not constant, he cannot be used for divination.’ Is this the saying left by the ancients? Even the tortoise shells cannot tell, let alone people? The Book of Songs says: ‘My tortoise is tired, but I still don’t tell it.’ The Book of Changes says: ‘The title is not equal to the bad virtue. The people stand up and do the right things. They are pure and offer sacrifices. This is disrespectful; things are complicated and chaotic, and serving the gods is difficult.’ The Book of Changes says: ‘If you don’t keep your virtue, you may suffer shame. If you keep your virtue, it will be auspicious for women and bad for men.’”

Foundation Game

　　Wang Lang always recommended Hua Xin for his insight and judgment. On the day of Xinla, he would gather his sons and nephews for a feast and drink, and the king also followed his example. Someone told Zhang Hua about this, and Zhang said, "What Wang learned from Hua is all beyond the physical body, which is why he went even further."