Dai De’s Records of Ritual

Nai-Yi Hsu Ph.D. (2022) earned his doctorate in Religious Studies from Indiana University. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at National Taiwan University, where he researches and teaches early Confucian philosophy, focusing on its ethical and political dimensions.Michael D. K. Ing, Ph.D. (2011), Harvard University, is Professor of Religious Studies at Indiana University. He is the author of The Dysfunction of Ritual in Early Confucianism (Oxford University Press, 2012) and The Vulnerability of Integrity in Early Confucian Thought (OUP, 2017).

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionTranslation of Chapters with Traditional Numbering39 Rulerly Words 主言40 Duke Ai asks about Five Kinds of Comportment 哀公問五義(儀)41 Duke Ai’s Inquiry with Confucius 哀公問於孔子42 Three Roots of Ritual 禮三本46 Investigations into Ritual 禮察47 The Calendar of the Xia 夏小正48 Protectors and Mentors 保傅49 Zengzi Singles Out the Tasks of an Exemplary Person 曾子立事50 Zengzi on the Root of Filial Piety 曾子本孝51 Zengzi on Putting Filial Piety into Effect 曾子立孝52 Zengzi on the Greatest Kind of Filial Piety 曾子大孝53 Zengzi on Serving One’s Parents 曾子事父母54 Zengzi’s Regulatory Sayings: Part 1 曾子制言上55 Zengzi’s Regulatory Sayings: Part 2 曾子制言中56 Zengzi’s Regulatory Sayings: Part 3 曾子制言下57 When Zengzi was Ill and Near Death 曾子疾病58 Zengzi on “the Heavens are Round” 曾子天圓59 King Wu Ascends the Throne 武王踐阼60 General Wenzi from the State of Wei 衛將軍文子62 The Virtuous Influence of the Five Emperors 五帝德63 The Lineage of the Emperors 帝繫64 Encouraging Learning 勸學65 Zizhang Asks about Entering Office 子張問入官66 Profound Virtue 盛德67 Hall of Clarity 明堂68 A Thousand Chariots 千乘69 The Four Dynasties 四代70 Shun of the Yu Clan Carries Out Virtue 虞戴德71 The Documents of Official Announcement 誥志72 King Wen on Appointing People as Officials 文王官人73A The Rulers Move [the Deceased into] the Temple 諸侯遷廟73B The Rulers Offer Blood Sacrifices at the Temple 諸侯釁廟74 Minute Distinctions 小辨75 The Use of Weapons 用兵76 Some Leisure Time 少閒77 The Affairs of Holding an Audience with Rulers 朝事78 Throwing Arrows into the Ceremonial Pot 投壺79 The Capping Ceremony of a Duke 公符[冠]80 The Source of Life’s Allotment 本命81 The Concept of Change and the Source of Life’s Allotment 易本命BibliographyIndex