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Confucianism -> Liji -> Sang Da Ji -> 43

大夫之丧，将大敛，既铺绞紟衾衣。君至，主人迎，先入门右，巫止于门外，君释菜，祝先入升堂，君即位于序端，卿大夫即位于堂廉楹西，北面东上；主人房外南面，主妇尸西，东面。迁尸，卒敛，宰告，主人降，北面于堂下，君抚之，主人拜稽颡，君降、升主人冯之，命主妇冯之。At the mourning rites of a Great officer, they were about to proceed to the great dressing, and the tie-strings, coverlets, and clothes had all been spread out, the ruler arrived, and was met by (the son), the principal mourner. The son entered before him, (and stood) at the right of the gate, outside which the exorcist stopped. The ruler having put down the vegetables (as an offering to the spirit of the gate), and the blesser entered preceding him, entered and went up to the hall. He then repaired to his place at the end of the corridor, while the ministers, and Great officers took theirs at the corner of the hall on the west of the pillar, looking to the north, their row ascending to the east. The presiding mourner was outside the apartment (where the corpse was), facing the south. His wife presiding was on the west of the body, facing the east. When they had moved the corpse, and finished the dressing, the steward reported that they had done so, and the presiding mourner went down below the hall, with his face to the north. There the ruler laid on him the soothing hand, and he bowed with his forehead, to the ground. The ruler signified to him to go up, and lean on the body, and also requested his wife, presiding, to lean on it.

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