Once a saint sits on the throne of the Son of Heaven and rules the world, there are five things that are urgent, and the common people are not included.

The first is to arrange all the relatives, the second is to repay the meritorious ministers, the third is to select those who are virtuous, the fourth is to appoint the talented, and the fifth is to show compassion and compassion.

If these five things are all done, then there will be no dissatisfaction among the people, and there will be no one who is not rich.

If one of these five things is done badly, the common people will suffer greatly.

Therefore, once a saint sits on the throne of the Son of Heaven and rules the world, he must start by correcting the relationship between relatives according to the law of etiquette.

Unifying weights and measures, making ceremonies and making music, changing the calendar, changing the color of clothing, changing the emblem, changing the equipment, changing the clothes, all these things can be changed with the change of dynasties.

However, there are also things that cannot be changed at will with the change of dynasties, that is, the blind date of the same clan, respect for ancestors, respect for the elders of young children, and the difference between men and women.

All men with the same surname have a common ancestor, and they are grouped into a distinct clan, and women who marry from other clans are named according to their husbands' names, so as to determine their own names and titles, so as to facilitate their participation in the clan's social and gatherings.

The name and title are clear, and the distinction between men and women can be achieved.

For a woman with a different surname who marries into her own clan, if her husband belongs to the father's generation, then his wife belongs to the mother's generation; If her husband belongs to the generation of sons, then his wife belongs to the generation of daughters-in-law.

If you call your brother's wife a daughter-in-law and your sister-in-law your mother, isn't that a mess?

Therefore, the title is a major event in human ethics, and it cannot be careless!

The descendants of the same ancestor only wear Shao Ma mourning clothes to each other, which is already the last of the five clothes.

The descendants of the same ancestor have already come out of five suits, and they only need to expose their left arms and wear a crowned to mourn, because the blood relationship with the same surname is already far away, so the friendship is reduced.

The descendants of the same ancestor have the same surname as each other, and the kinship is no longer there.

These people with the same surname, from the ancestor above, have different surnames, and since the great-grandson has already come out of the five suits, can they intermarry with each other?

The answer is: these people are all under the official surname of an ancestor, and it can be said that there is no difference in this point; At the time of the family dinner, everyone is still seated according to their generation.

Therefore, the method formulated by the Zhou Dynasty was that as long as they were people with the same surname, even if they were hundreds of generations away from their ancestors, they could not intermarry with each other.

There are six bases for the establishment of mourning clothes: the first is based on the distance of blood relations, the second is based on the dignity of social status, the third is based on the status obtained by women with different surnames after marriage, the fourth is based on whether the women of their own clan are married or not, the fifth is based on whether the deceased is an adult or not, and the sixth is subordinate.

Subordination can be divided into six types: the first is subordination, that is, mourning for the deceased because of kinship, such as a son following his mother to mourn for his mother's family; The second is vain, that is, mourning for non-relatives, such as a courtier mourning for the family of the king; For example, the concubine of the king was supposed to follow his wife to mourn for his father-in-law, but because he was afraid of violating the taboo of the king, he refused to accept the mourning.

For example, the concubine of the king does not mourn for his mother's mother's family, but the wife of the concubine has to mourn for it; For example, a wife who serves her maiden parents for a year is a heavy burden, while a husband only serves his parents-in-law, which is a light service.

For example, the king's concubine only wears a crown for his biological mother, and after the funeral, he will be removed from the ceremony, but the concubine's wife will serve for a year.

From the perspective of kindness, along the father from generation to generation to the distant ancestors, the farther away the lighter; From a moral point of view, it was pushed down from generation to generation along the distant ancestors to the father's temple, and the farther away it was, the heavier it became.

In this way, although the distant ancestors were light in kindness, they were heavy in morality; Although the father is heavy in kindness, he is light in morality.

This kind of light and heavy, from the perspective of human feelings, should be like this.

As the eldest son of the great clan, the monarch has the obligation to gather the clansmen to feast and drink, and to make peace with the clan, but the clansmen cannot treat him with family gifts because they are related to the monarch by blood, which is determined by the status of the monarch.

The concubine does not worship the ancestor (mi), which indicates that the sacrifice to the ancestor should be done by the eldest son of the great sect.

If the father is a concubine, he cannot mourn for his eldest son for three years, because the concubine is the heir of your ancestors.

The son other than the eldest son is the ancestor of his descendants, the eldest son who inherits the son other than the eldest son is the great sect, and the son who inherits the son other than the eldest son is the small sect.

There is a clan that will not move for hundreds of generations, that is, a great clan; There are five generations of clans that have moved, that is, small clans.

The great sect that has not moved for a hundred generations is the branch of the eldest son of the son other than the eldest son.

The branch of the eldest son who inherits the son other than the eldest son is the great sect that will not move for a hundred generations.

can only inherit the ancestor of the ancestor, and it is a small sect that moved to the fifth generation.

Because of respect for ancestors, so respect for the eldest son, and respect for the eldest son is equivalent to the strength of the ancestors.

The patriarchal law of the princes and sons, the first is that there are only small sects and no major sects, the second is that there are only large sects and no small sects, and the third is that no one can become their own sect, and no one regards themselves as a sect, this is the situation of the patriarchal law of the princes and sons.

The princes of the princes have such a patriarchal law, that is, the monarch appoints a half-brother as the son of the rest of the half-brothers who are named scholars, which is the patriarchal law of the prince.

The clansmen who have come out of the five suits, and their kindness and righteousness have been severed, so they no longer hang filial piety to each other.

As for relatives within five suits, how to mourn or how to mourn.

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