Sentence examples for book of rites from inspiring English sources

Confucius wrote, in his Book of Rites, "The woman obeys the man.

In "The Book of Rites" he wrote that Chinese kings who led their people to a xiaokang lifestyle were pillars of courtesy, sincerity, justice and virtue.

His most important work, The Iroquois Book of Rites (1883), summarizes much of his research and reconstructs the later prehistory of the tribes of the Six Nations.

In the "Li Chi," or "Book of Rites," it is written, "The music of a well-ruled state is peaceful and joyous..

The Chinese "Book of Rites" differentiated between the joyous sound of a well-ruled state and the resentful sound of a confused one.

The Chinese classic known as "The Book of Rites" contains a famous description of a zither on which "one string is plucked, and three others will reverberate in murmurs so there is a lingering sound".

Zhu wrote an individual preface for each of these two books (both direct excerpts from Liji ["Record of Rites"], one of the Five Classics).

Large sections of the book consist of rote, familiar chronology, with occasional attempts at contextualizing, including some strained efforts to link the success of "Idol" to the post-9/11 mood in America.

As a creative transmitter of earlier Chinese traditions, Confucius is said, according to legend, to have compiled the Five Classics, namely, the Book of History, Poetry, Changes, Rites, and the Spring and Autumn Annals.

Her book, The Rite of Spring, is published by Head of Zeus.

I was reminded by The Times photo of Yuba City residents burning copies of Rand McNally publications of the book-burning rites earlier this century, which ushered in years of global nightmare for humanity.