An idea from The Doctrine of the Mean

Honoring your parents means carrying out what they wanted and carrying on what they started. Serve the dead as you served them alive. The old kings did it in the temple rites, seating guests by rank, and at the feast by the color of their hair, meaning by age.

From The Doctrine of the Mean by Zisi

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