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Confucianism -> Liji -> Wang Zhi -> 50

Splitting words so as to break (the force of) the laws;
confounding names so as to change what had been definitely settled;
practising corrupt ways so as to throw government into confusion:
all guilty of these things were put to death.
Using licentious music; strange garments; wonderful contrivances and extraordinary implements, thus raising doubts among the multitudes:
all who used or formed such things were put to death.
Those who were persistent in hypocritical conduct
and disputatious in hypocritical speeches;
who studied what was wrong, and went on to do so more and more,
and whoever increasingly followed what was wrong
so as to bewilder the multitudes:
these were put to death.
Those who gave false reports about (appearances of) spirits, about seasons and days, about consultings of the tortoise-shell and stalks, so as to perplex the multitudes:
these were put to death.
These four classes were taken off,
and no defence listened to.


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