Three years asked

                  

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Three years asked
What about three years of mourning? Said: Affectionate and written, because of the decoration of the group, don't kiss the noble practice, and not profit or loss. Therefore, it is said that there is no easy way. The giant is long, the pain is even later, and the three years are the same, and the love is written, so it is extremely painful. Chop the decay of the cane, live in the house, eat porridge, sleep on the pillow block, so it is also painful. Three years of mourning will be completed in twenty-five months; The grief is not over, the longing is not forgotten, but those who obey it are broken, will not send the dead to have it, and there will be a festival of resurrection!
Whoever is born between heaven and earth, the flesh must know, and the one who knows knows knows and loves it; Now it is a big bird and beast, then it will lose its herd, and if it exceeds the moon, it will reverse the patrol, pass its hometown, fly back, sound the horn, hesitate, hesitate, and then be able to go to it; As for the little bird, there is still a sigh of chirping, and then it can go to it. Therefore, those who belong to flesh and blood do not know from others, so people are also from their relatives until death.
Will the husband be afflicted with a man who is afflicted with adultery? Then he died and forgot about it, but from it, it was the birds and beasts that were not as good as the husband, and the husband could live in groups without chaos? The gentleman who will be modified by the husband will be mourned for three years, and it will be completed in twenty-five months. Therefore, the first Wang Yan set up a system for it, and one is enough to write a theory, and then it will be explained.
But why is it so long? Said: Close relatives to break off. What is it? Said: Heaven and earth have changed, and the four times have changed, and those who are in heaven and earth must be more initiated, so that they are also images. But why three years? Said: Garon Yan'er also, make it double, so it is also renewed. From September to below, what also? Said: "Let the Buddha reach also." Therefore, three years thought it was long, and it was a small work to kill, and the period of nine months was thought to be intermittent. The image is taken from the sky, the law is taken from the earth, and the middle is taken from the people.
Therefore, the three-year mourning is also humane, and the husband is called the longest. It is the same place of a hundred kings, the same place of ancient and modern, and those who do not know its origin. Confucius said, "A son is born for three years, and then he is free from the arms of his parents." The three-year mourning of the husband is also the mourning of the world. ”