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Analects (Legge) · Book II

Analects (Legge) · Book II

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1 Mang I asked what filial piety was. The Master said, ‘It is not being disobedient.’

2 Soon after, as Fan Ch’ih was driving him, the Master told him, saying, ‘Mang-sun asked me what filial piety was, and I answered him,— “not being disobedient.”’

3 Fan Ch’ih said, ‘What did you mean?’ The Master replied, ‘That parents, when alive, be served according to propriety; that, when dead, they should be buried according to propriety; and that they should be sacrificed to according to propriety.’