Book of Rites

Then came the manuscripts.

More than 5,200 bamboo slips and nearly 100 wooden tablets were recovered, including texts associated with the Analects, the Book of Songs, the Book of Rites, the Spring and Autumn Annals, and the classic of filial piety, as well as previously unknown rules for playing lilbo and a long-lost text concerning health and wellness.

Another document was an edict abolishing the Hai Hun Marquis sect.

the earliest known surviving physical example of such a Western Han decree.

He did not talk while he was eating, and he did not talk when he was in bed, which, it must be said, is an excellent rule.

Later, his followers put together the Book of Rites, the Liji, and in it is a list of rules for eating that is one of the finest documents of the ancient world.

Every line of it describes somebody.

Do not roll your rice into a bowl.

So do you, I'm sure.

Another observation: 2,500 years ago in the Book of Rites, Confucius wrote, "Do not take liberty with the gods or weary them." Dr.

Sargent did, and died because he did.

Of course, Prince Baltus was the real cause of it.

Now, that has been translated into official Chinese political vernacular as a moderately prosperous society.

Now, this term itself originates in Confucius, in the Book of Rites.

where he is distinguishing between great harmony or a Datong society, which has a conceptual link to the Chinese concept of communism, and the need to firstly achieve a Shaokong society, as a staging ground to incrementally resolve the contradictions that exist, the developmental, social, political, governance contradictions that exist, so that we can consistently step by step improve society in the direction of trying to achieve greater harmony.

So we can already see that when we're dealing with these terms, we're not only dealing with contemporary political vernacular, but there's also, you know, some Chinese concepts that are thousands of years old underpinning all of this.