Section 452 Gifts of the king

∏∈, when the guest sacrifices, the host should humbly say: It is not worth sacrificing.

After the guests have eaten, they praise the host for the delicious food, and the host humbly says: coarse tea and light rice, thanks to the award.

When the host salutes the guests, he sets the sauce on the seat himself, and the guests in return must remove it after eating.

Colleagues eat together, there is no distinction between guests and hosts, and after eating, the youngest person removes the utensils that set up the food.

Everyone gathers to eat for errands, and after eating, the youngest person also removes the utensils used to display the food.

It is not necessary for the woman to remove the utensils for the display of food in the morning and evening meals, because the woman is simple and cannot prepare a ceremony.

Eat dates, peaches, plums, and don't throw the pits around.

When eating melons, you should sacrifice first, and when you sacrifice, you should use the half connected to the melon, and then eat the melon pulp, and the part of the melon skin that you hold in your hand is thrown away.

Whoever eats the fruit, let the gentleman eat it first, because the fruit is born of the earth, and it is easy to distinguish between good and bad, and there is no need to taste it first; Whenever you eat cooked food, you must first taste the food for the gentleman, because cooked food is processed by people, and what it tastes like must be tasted before you know that the parents have something to celebrate, but if there is no reward from the king, they dare not accept the congratulations of relatives and friends.

Confucius ate at Ji's place, and Ji, as the host, didn't say a word of politeness, and Confucius also replied with indecency, saying that he was full before he ate meat.

The king gave the ministers a chariot and a horse, and in addition to receiving the remarks at that time, the ministers had to take the chariot and horses to thank them again the next day; The king gave his subordinates clothes, and the ministers not only bowed down at that time, but also put on the clothes they were given and went to thank them the next day.

As for the chariots, horses, and clothes given by the king, if the king does not give another order about the clothes, the ministers will not dare to ride the clothes, but can only collect them.

For the king's reward, the ministers should bow to the chief again.

This is done by pressing the left hand on top of the right hand, with the hand on the ground and the head on the ground.

As for the king's reward of wine and meat, because the goods given are relatively light, as long as they are accepted at the time, there is no need to come to the door the next day to worship again.

Whatever is given by the king cannot be given to both the gentleman and the villain on the same day, so that there is no difference between the virtuous and the unscrupulous.

Whenever an offering is made to the king, the doctor should send his own chief to deliver it, and the scholar should personally deliver it to the king's door, and hand it over to the king's ministers, and then pay homage to the chief again.

To present delicacies to the monarch, meat peaches and reeds should be attached at the same time; If you are offering food to the doctor, only the meat peaches are attached, and the reeds are removed; If you are offering food to a scholar, only the peach is attached, and the reed flowers are removed.

All the food that is served is received by the official in charge of catering.

The reason why the doctor did not personally present goods to the monarch was because he was worried that the king of labor would pay homage to him.

The doctor thanked the monarch for his reward, as long as he invited the king's ministers at the king's door to inform them of his intentions, and did not have to wait for the ministers to return the king's intentions, he could retreat; To thank the monarch for his reward, he must wait for the minister to return the king's intention before he can retreat, and when he leaves, he must thank the monarch for this promise, and the monarch does not have to bow down.

The doctor personally gave the priest a gift, and the priest not only accepted it at the time, but also went to the doctor's house the next day to express his gratitude again.

If the reward is clothing, you don't have to put it on your body to give thanks as you did with a king.

People of equal status come to give gifts, and if they are at home, they pay homage at home; If you are not at home, you will go to the donor's house the next day to thank you.

Whenever there is something to be offered to a noble person, it must be avoided

The words can only be tactfully said to be given to the retinue of the honorable person, etc.

There are festive things and do not dare to accept the doctor's personal visit to congratulate, because of the disparity in status between the two.

If the doctor has something to celebrate, he can accept the doctor's personal congratulations, because the two are of similar status.

The father is alive, and gifts should be given to others in the name of the father; In the same way, if someone gives you something, you should also accept it in the name of your father.

This means that the father is the head of the family.

If the ceremony is not grand enough, the placket of the dress does not need to be covered, and the ceremony of worshiping the heavens is very solemn, so the Son of Heaven does not take off his shirt to expose part of his body when he wears a big fur, and the Son of Heaven does not lean on the crossbar in front of the car along the way to salute.

When the father calls out to his son, the son must say "only"

And don't say "promise"

, because "hey"

Bi "No"

Be more respectful, put down the things in your hands quickly, spit out the food in your mouth immediately, and run to it without a little rubbing.

The parents are old, and the son can't change the place at will when he goes out, saying that when he comes back, he must come back on time, so as not to worry about the parents.

If the parents are sick, or if the condition is not good, this is a son's negligence.

After his father's death, the son couldn't bear to look through the books his father had read, because there were traces of sweat on his hands at that time.

After his mother's death, the son couldn't bear to use the cups and plates used by his mother, because there were traces of her mouth on them.

When the two kings meet, the visiting monarch enters through the center of the gate, and the secretary walks in next to the door, the deputy envoy Jisuke who is served by the doctor walks between the door wedge and the door pin, and the last one who is served by the scholar walks next to the door wedge, the king is in front, and the upper suke is in the back, forming a trend of geese walking.

If the visitor is a doctor, then he cannot enter through the center of the door, nor can he step on the threshold to avoid His Holiness.

In the execution of the task of appointment given by the king, it is an official business, and he enters from the west side of the gate, which is a gift to the master; After the appointment and enjoyment of the gift, the visiting doctor visited the lord and the monarch in his private name, which was a private matter, and he entered from the east side of the door, which was the courtesy of the minister.

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