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Supplement to the Rituals

Supplement to the Rituals

Rituals of the Community Drinking Ceremony
The Zhou Dynasty Style for Community Drinking
The Order of the Community Drinking Ritual
Hastening the Guests Outside the Gate

Arranging the Guests and Bowing Twice
Ritual Prayer and Libation The act of pouring a small amount of wine on the ground as an offering to ancestors or deities while reciting a prayer.
The Host Offers and the Guest Receives
The Guest Returns the Toast to the Host

The Host Returns the Toast to the Assistant The 'Assistant' (Jie) refers to the secondary guest of honor in the ritual hierarchy.
The Assistant Returns the Toast to the General Guests
Offering Wine Without Fixed Measure A later stage of the ceremony where drinking becomes less formal and the strict count of cups is relaxed.
Requesting the Host to Perform the Ritual Ablution The ceremonial washing of hands or vessels to maintain ritual purity.

The Master of Ceremonies Raises the Goblet
Bowing to See Off the Guests and Assistants
Miscellaneous Rituals for Local Living
Etiquette for Meeting One Another

Designations for Elders and Youth
Frequency of Reciprocal Visits
Formats for Visiting Cards Known as 'Cizi,' these were strips of wood or paper used to announce one's arrival at a home.
Etiquette for Advancing and Retreating

Rituals for Welcoming and Seeing Off
Rituals for Bowing and Saluting
Rituals for Requesting and Inviting
Order of Precedence Based on Age

Rituals for Offering and Returning Wine
Etiquette for Encountering Others on the Road
Rituals for Giving and Sending Gifts
Rituals for Welcoming and Greeting Laborers

Rituals for Farewell Banquets
Rituals for Mutual Kneeling Newly Added
Diagram of Kneeling Positions Newly Added
Seating Order for Six People Newly Added

Seating Order for Seven People Newly Added
Diagram for Holding the Wine Cup Newly Added
Rituals for Serving Tea and Meals Newly Added
Holding the Cup for an Official Newly Added

Holding the Cup Between Equals Newly Added
When an Official Personally Bestows Wine Newly Added
Ritual for Exchanging Cups to Drink Newly Added
Abandoning Vulgarity in Conversation

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Volume Eleven

Agriculture and Sericulture as the Primary Duty

Diagram of the Well-Field System The 'Well-Field System' (Jingtian) was an idealized ancient Chinese land distribution method where eight private plots surrounded a central public plot, resembling the character for 'well' (井).

Diagram of Plowing and Harvesting

Diagram of Silkworm Rearing and Weaving