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Confucianism -> Liji -> Tan Gong II -> 177

季康子When the mother of Ji Kang-zi died,
公輸若Gong-shu Ruo was still young.
After the dressing,
Ban asked leave to let the coffin down into the grave by a mechanical contrivance.
They were about to accede,
公肩假when Gong-jian Jia said,
'No.
According to the early practice in Lu,
the ducal house used (for this purpose) the arrangement looking like large stone pillars,
and the three families that like large wooden columns.
Ban,
you would, in the case of another man's mother, make trial of your ingenuity
- could you not in the case of your own mother do so?
Would that distress you?
!」Bah!'
They did not allow him to carry out his plan.


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