Lumu, a private act of mourning ritual, grew into a cultural phenomenon with considerable
appeal in the seventeenth century. The era saw a range of activities that placed lumu at the …

Abstract The Qing dynasty scholar Liu Yuan (1768-1856) developed a unique system of
thought, merging Confucian learning with ideas and practices from Daoism and Buddhism …

Abstract The story of Lu Ji's noble deed, namely Hiding Mandarins For His Mother, is one of
the most widely spread moral tales of filial piety in Chinese history. Twenty-four examples of …

During the Zhou to early Han dynasties, significant changes occurred in China's political,
social, and cultural landscape. This era saw the emergence of new ritual practices that …

The psychology of Lou Tseng-Tsiang (1871–1949)–the famous Chinese diplomat and
Beiyang Government politician who became a Benedictine monk in Belgium in 1927–is not …

Li 禮 (translated variously as “ritual”,“etiquette”, or “propriety”) plays a central role in early
Confucianism, but its complexity is not always fully understood. At first glance, it may seem …

Jun Jing's study of the convergence of circumstances leading to the rebuilding of a local
Confucius temple in the village of Dachuan in the northwestern province of Gansu is one of …

When we mourn, we are caught within a state of psychological impasse in which we
fruitlessly seek to keep alive our dead in memory despite knowing that this is impossible. 1 …

The practices centered on this space were, in Chu Hsi's own words, to" preserve status
responsibilities and give concrete form to love and respect (ming-fen chih shou, ai-ching …

Ideas regarding death and the afterlife have always been a prominent feature of Chinese
religious culture. An analysis of burial patterns from Neolithic and Bronze Age …