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Confucianism -> Liji -> Zengzi Wen -> 19.2

孔子Confucius said,
天子 'When the son of Heaven went on his tours of Inspection,
he took (one of) those tablets along with him,
conveying it in the carriage of Reverence,
thus intimating how it was felt necessary to have with him that object of honour.
The practice now-a-days of taking the tablets of the seven temple-shrines along with them on an expedition
is an error.
No shrine in all the seven (of the king), or in the five of the prince of a state, ought to be (left) empty.
A shrine can only be so left without its tablet,
天子 when the son of Heaven has died,
诸侯or the prince of a state deceased, or left his state,
or when all the tablets are brought together at the united sacrifice, in the shrine-temple of the highest ancestor.
老聃 I heard the following statement from Lao Dan:
天子 "On the death of the son of Heaven,
or of the prince of a state,
it is the rule that the officer of prayer should take the tablets from all the other shrines and deposit them in that of the high ancestor,
When the wailing was over, and the business (of placing the tablet of the deceased in its shrine) was completed,
then every other tablet was restored to its shrine.
When a ruler abandoned his state, it was the rule that the Grand minister should take the tablets from all the shrines and follow him.
When there was the united sacrifice in the shrine of the high ancestor,
the officer of prayer met (and received) the tablets from the four shrines.
When they were taken from their shrines or carried back to them all were required to keep out of the way."
老聃。” So said Lao Dan.'


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