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Confucianism -> Liji -> Qu Li I -> 16

Whenever a son,
having received the three (first) gifts (of the ruler), declines (to use) the carriage and horses,
the people of the hamlets and smaller districts, and of the larger districts and neighbourhoods, will proclaim him filial;
his brothers and relatives, both by consanguinity and affinity, will proclaim him loving;
his friends who are fellow-officers will proclaim him virtuous;
and his friends who are his associates will proclaim him true.
When he sees an intimate friend of his father,
not to presume to go forward to him without being told to do so;
退退 nor to retire without being told;
nor to address him without being questioned
- this is the conduct of a filial son.


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