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Confucianism -> Liji -> Qu Li I -> 64

According to the rules for the period of mourning (for a father),
(a son) should not emaciate himself till the bones appear,
nor let his seeing and hearing be affected (by his privations).
He should not go up to, nor descend from, the hail by the steps on the east (which his father used),
nor go in or out by the path right opposite to the (centre of the) gate.
According to the same rules,
if he have a scab on his head, he should wash it;
if he have a sore on his body, he should bathe it.
If he be ill, he should drink spirits, and eat flesh,
returning to his former (abstinence) when he is better.
If he make himself unable to perform his mourning duties,
that is like being unkind and unfilial.
If he be fifty, he should not allow himself to be reduced (by his abstinence) very much;
and, if he be sixty, not at all.
At seventy, he will only wear the unhemmed dress of sackcloth,
and will drink and eat flesh,
and occupy (the usual apartment) inside (his house).


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