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Confucianism -> Yangzi Fayan -> The Priority of Filial Devotion -> 4

Does a filial son not make offerings to his ancestors?
Does he not fast?
Now, only through the fast is one able to make the deceased's image survive and feel connected to those who are gone.
Thus, in fasting a filial son
preserves a vision of his father and mother.
Because of this, during the fast, one does not take guests.
Men who do not make offerings to their ancestors, are they even as good as jackals and otters?


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