The Book of Etiquette and Ceremonial 儀禮

Also known as the Yili, a classic Confucian text describing details of ceremonies

• 士冠禮 第一 1. Capping rites for (the son of) a common officer
• 士昬禮 第二 2. Nuptial rites for a common officer
• 士相見禮 第三 3. Rites attendant on the meeting of common officers with each other
• 鄉飲酒禮 第四 4. Rites of the district symposium
• 鄉射禮 第五 5. Rites of the district archery meet
• 燕禮 第六 6. Banquet rites
• 大射 第七 7. The great archery meet (state level)
• 聘禮 第八 8. Rites of courtesy calls
• 公食大夫禮 第九 9. Rites of the gong feasting a great officer
• 覲禮 第十 10. Rites of the (imperial) audience
• 喪服 第十一 11. Mourning attire
• 士丧礼 第十二 12. Mourning rites for the common officer
• 既夕禮 第十三 13. (Mourning procedures of) the evening preceding burial
• 士虞禮 第十四 14. Post burial rites for a common officer
• 特牲馈食礼 第十五 15. Rites of the single victim food offering
• 少牢馈食礼 第十六 16. Rites of the secondary pen victim food offering
• 有司 第十七 17. The servant clearing the way

Source

Wikisource, accessed 2018-04-27 https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/儀禮

English translations

Steele, John Clendinning 1966, The Yi- li: or Book of Etiquette and Ceremonial, Taipei: Chen- wen Pub. Co.

Discussion

1. Nylan, Michael 2001, The Five “confucian” classics, New Haven: Yale University Press, pp. 191-195.
2. Schaberg, David 2017, 'Chapter 12: Classics (Jing 經),' in Denecke, Wiebke, Wai-Yee Li, and Xiaofei Tian (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Classical Chinese Literature (1000 BCE-900CE), New York: Oxford University Press, p. 178.

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