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Confucianism -> Liji -> Jiao Te Sheng -> 42

When the ruler bowed twice with his head to the ground, and, with breast bared, himself applied the knife, this expressed his extreme reverence.
Yes, his extreme reverence, for there was submission in it.
The bowing showed his submission; the laying the head on the ground did that emphatically; and the baring his breast was the greatest (outward) exhibition of the feeling.


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