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Shi (personator)

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representative, who should be a grandson; and if the grandson is too young, someone must be employed to carry him in his arms. If there be no grandson, some one of the same surname should be selected for the occasion. In sacrificing to the one who had died prematurely, there are (only) the satisfying offerings, for he was not full-grown. To sacrifice to a full-grown man, for whom there have been the funeral rites without a representative, would be to treat him as if he had died prematurely." (7)
1416: 1195:(c. 2100 – c. 1600 BCE), a personator would make contact with the dead ancestral spirit before sitting down to eat and drink. During the Yin or Shang dynasty (c. 1600 – 1046 BCE), a personator would sometimes sit down without having contacted the spirit, and by the late Zhou dynasty (1045–256 BCE), a personation ceremony became a revelry with several personators repeatedly making toasts and drinking sacrificial wines. 972:
dead it was customary in China for the deceased to whom the sacrifice was made to be represented by a boy of the family, who sat in the dead man's place and was honored as his representative. On the basis of this custom the text is interpreted as meaning that a "corpse boy" is sitting in the wagon, or, in other words, that authority is not being exercised by the proper leaders but has been usurped by others.
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with wine," and 248/5 "the representative of the (dead) princes comes and feasts and is befumed (by the spirits); the good wine makes you merry." Most significantly, the ancestral spirits speak directly through the intoxicated personators (166, 210, and 247), approve of the sacrificial offerings, and bless their descendants (166, 209, 210, 247, and 248).
581:: "He (viz. Wu-Wang) made a wooden image of Wen-Wang and took it with on his carriage into the battle." Erkes further suggested, "very probably the custom of carrying a into battle had developed from an earlier one of taking the body itself, and that therefore the was something representing the corpse, i.e., an image of the deceased." 1178:(15) describes a wife personating her husband's dead grandmother: "A wife, on festive occasions, even though it were on receiving a gift from the ruler, (only) made a curtsy. When seated as a personatrix (of the deceased grandmother of her husband), she did not bow with her head to her hands, but made the curtsy." The 531:"corpse in a coffin". Hawkes justifies translating "corpse": "According to some accounts it was the 'spirit tablet' of his dead father which King Wu carried in his chariot to battle. But I think the poet understood him to have taken the actual corpse, and was surprised that he had not waited to bury it." 1347:
The ancients, when sacrificing to the dead, employed the personator, because the soul and the vital force of the dead person after being separated from the body, seek an agent of the same nature. Now, men being all of the same kind, the father and the children being all of one family and of the same
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The personator is found in the ceremony wherein sacrifice is offered to ancestors, because the soul emitting no perceptible sounds and having no visible form, the loving sentiment of filial piety finds no means of displaying itself, hence a personator has been chosen to whom meats are offered, after
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In China, possessions by spirits that occurred outside of this ritual scenario often involved younger members of the family as well. As in instances of mediumism around the world, the youthful and illiterate were regarded as more reliable conduits to the dead, since they could hardly be suspected of
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The wild ducks are at the junction of the river; the representative of the (dead) princes comes and feasts and is (treated in temple-fashion =) revered; the feast is in the temple, that is where felicity and blessings descend; the representative feasts and drinks; felicity and blessings come and are
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There is an abundance of sacrificial wine and food (odes 166, 209, 210, and 248) shared by both the ancestral spirits (through the personator) and their descendants. Drunkenness is frequently mentioned: 209/5 "The spirits are all drunk," 209/6 "all are happy; they are drunk," 247/1, 2 "We are drunk
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He seems to think that the substitution of 'wooden tablet' for the corpse (if really a corpse is intended; the word shi is ambiguous) proves the to have been an image of the corpse, and therefore he translates by 'wooden statue.' Nothing could be more arbitrary. The , wooden ancestral tablet, was
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As soon as death took place, the corpse was transferred to the couch, and covered with a large sheet. The clothes in which the deceased had died were removed. A servant plugged the mouth open with the spoon of horn; and to keep the feet from contracting, an easy stool was employed. These observances
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was an impersonator, that is, a person serving as a reminder of the ancestor to whom sacrifice was being offered. During such a ceremony, the impersonator was much more than an actor in a drama. Although the exact meaning may have been different, the group of Sanxingdui masked figures in bronze all
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passage (7) explains: "A rule of propriety says, 'A superior man may carry his grandson in his arms, but not his son.' This tells us that a grandson may be the personator of his deceased grandfather (at sacrifices), but a son cannot be so of his father." When a grandson personated his grandfather's
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You should ask him, "Which do you respect most,—your uncle, or your younger brother?" He will answer, "My uncle." Ask him again, "If your younger brother be personating a dead ancestor, to which do you show the greater respect,—to him or to your uncle?" He will say, "To my younger brother." You can
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translations: "representative of the (dead) princes" (Karlgren), "personators of your ancestors" (Legge admitting "The expression 公尸, 'ducal personators,' is somewhat difficult to account for"), "impersonator of the Ancient", "ducal Dead", or "Dead One" (Waley, noting "Impersonator of a former Duke
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In ancient times all employed a personator when sacrificing to the dead. Since the descendants continue the life of their ancestors, the personator shares, therefore, in the life of the departed person, and the ancestor's soul descends undoubtedly upon his descendants, and reposes therein to enjoy
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The ancients employed a personator. This rite deserves censure, and has been abolished by our great Worthies. One vied with the other in practicing it. Now that an era of progress has set in, and these silly customs have disappeared, it is important not to revive them; common sense bids to refrain
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Under the dynasty the representatives of the dead sat. Their monitors and cup-suppliers observed no regular rules. The usages were the same (as those of Yin ), and the underlying principle was one. Under the dynasty, the personators had stood till the sacrifice was ended (whereas) under the Yin
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Here we have a choice of two explanations. One points to defeat because someone other than the chosen leader interferes with the command; the other is similar in its general meaning, but the expression, "carries corpses in the wagon," is interpreted differently. At burials and at sacrifices to the
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says, "The Xia had standing personators, the Shang had sitting personators, and the Zhou had six personators who would make serial toasts." Granet mentions the Zhou personation parties: "It was not long before this archaic custom was criticized by the ritualists. When the sacrifices were offered
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meanings. The basic meaning (1) "corpse" was semantically extended into both (2) "act on behalf of a corpse" or "personator of a dead ancestor" and (3) "act like a corpse" or "motionless; inactive; doing nothing". Meaning (4) "lay out, arrange; display" generalizes "lay out a corpse." Meaning (5)
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Several early sources give variations of the same chronicle about the personation ceremony. It began during the Xia Dynasty, when personators would communicate on behalf of the dead; continued during the Shang and Western Zhou Dynasties; but was criticized and discontinued after the Eastern Zhou
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Several early texts and commentaries reiterate a traditional history of personation beginning in the second millennium BCE as a sacred communion with ancestral spirits, but ending as a drinking party in the late 1st millennium BCE. When the personation ceremony supposedly originated during the
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odes (209–210 and 247–248). Ode 209 says "we make (the representative of the dead) sit at ease, we (assist him =) encourage him to eat" and "The august representative of the dead then rises, the drums and bells (by their sound) escort away the representative." The following ode 210 describes
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asked, "Is it necessary that there should be a representative of the dead in sacrifices? Or may he be dispensed with as when the satisfying offerings are made to the dead?" Confucius said, "In sacrificing to a full-grown man for whom there have been the funeral rites, there must be such a
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reiterates that personation contradicted the established social hierarchy (18): "Thus it is that there are two among his subjects whom the ruler does not treat as subjects. When one is personating (his ancestor) he does not treat him as such, nor does he treat his master as such." Another
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ode (245) laments that, "the good men sit motionless and silent". Karlgren explains, "'The good men act the corpse,' play the part of a representative of the dead at a sacrifice, who sits still and silent during the whole ceremony; here then, remain inactive, do nothing to help." The
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the resting place of the ancestor's spirit, once his body was dead and decomposed. In this sense it was a substitute for his body, his spiritual force had entered it, and therefore it was carried into battle, bringing this mental force of his into play on the side of his descendant.
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The wild ducks are on the (river); the representative of the (dead) princes comes and feasts and is at peace; your wine is clear, your viands are fragrant; the representative feasts and drinks; felicity and blessings come and (achieve, complete you =) make you perfect.
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The wild ducks are in the gorge; the representative of the (dead) princes comes and feasts and is befumed (by the spirits); the good wine makes you merry; the roast and broiled things are fragrant; the representative feasts and drinks; there will be no after trouble.
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According to the theory of the bicameral mind, hallucinations of a person in some authority could continue after death as an everyday matter. And hence the almost universal custom of feeding the corpses after death, and burying them with the appurtenances of life.
1331:宇宙大疑議 "Discussion of Universal Great Doubts" says: "The personator is employed during sacrifices to the dead, in order to carry the ancestral tablet ... hence there is no need of having such a one immediately after death, as the tablet is not yet erected." 1182:(14) euphemistically says a female personator should preferably not be the wife of a concubine's grandson; "A man personates a dead man, and a woman a woman. In the latter case a woman of a different surname is chosen, and as such not one of inferior standing." 1165:
having fabricated their utterances and writings themselves. This fact brings to the fore questions of power. Women and junior male members of a family frequently found that mediumism was a way to bring attention to their own, otherwise easily ignored, concerns.
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The wild ducks are on the sands; the representative of the (dead) princes comes and feasts and (approves =) finds it good; your wine is plentiful, your viands are fine; the representative feasts and drinks; felicity and blessings come and (act for =) favor you.
929:尸). Occupying their ritual rôle by virtue of their kinship position vis-à-vis the ancestor that is sacrificed to, the Impersonators are not trained religious specialists like the Spirit Mediums. Although it has been speculated that the actions of the 1052:
The wild ducks are on the island; the representative of the (dead) prices comes and feasts and reposes; your wine is strained, your viands are sliced; the representative feasts and drinks; felicity and blessings come and descend on you.
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did not live to see the conquering of the previous dynasty, Shang-Yin: "When Wu set out to kill Yin, why was he so grieved? He went into the battle carrying the 'corpse.' Why was he in such haste?" Commentators disagree whether this
1406:"corpse". Carr notes the historical correspondence between Jaynes's first millennium BCE timeline for the breakdown of the bicameral mind in other parts of the world and the 11th–3rd centuries BCE personation practices in China. 1103:
Several texts refer to a Chinese custom that a personator should be a child of the same sex as the dead ancestor, preferably either a legitimate grandson or his wife. However, personation by younger relatives, who were of lower
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personation ceremonies as "grand family reunions where the dead and the living met, eating and drinking together, where the living worshipped the dead, and the dead blessed the living." In modern terms, this ancient Chinese
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The fourth opinion refutes the first three condemnations of personators as mere representatives or tablet-holders for the dead, and contends that a personator was temporarily the seat of a dead ancestor's soul. Two leading
1327:集說詮真 "Collected Sayings Explaining Truth" says, "The filial son chooses a personator to carry the tablet, but not to be the resting place of the soul of the dead person. His intention is therefore manifest." The 933:
may have originally involved trance and possession, the surviving source materials—none earlier than the Western Zhou period—show them as staid and passive, acting with the utmost demeanor and dignity.
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The Chinese Classics, Vol. IV - Part II: The second, third and fourth parts of the She-king, or the minor Odes of the Kingdom, the greater Odes of the Kingdom, the sacrificial Odes and Praise-songs
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in meaning and are part of Chinese traditions; however, the descriptions of a dignified personator are unlike the spirit-possession of either. Another translational tactic would be to coin a
753:尸 "to spread out; lie down flat (in order to sleep); motionless; to set forth (sacrificial dishes)", to "personator of a dead ancestor", to "corpse". He rejects Karlgren's assumption that 1119:
go on, "But where is the respect due, as you said, to your uncle?" He will reply to this, "I show the respect to my younger brother because of the position which he occupies." (6)
1040:鳧鷖 "Wild Ducks") describes another feast, which commentators say was held on the following day to reward the personator, and details sacrificial offerings and ancestral blessings. 1312:
which he breaks the bowls, quite rejoiced, as if his own father had eaten plenty. The personator, drinking abundantly, imparts the illusion that it is the soul which is satiated.
476:匛 "long; enduring" phonetic) "coffined corpse": "(The corpse) on the couch is called (the laid out); when it is put into the coffin, that is called (being in the long home)." A 447:, "In bed, he did not lie like a corpse." Commentators disagree whether this means "sleep with the arms and legs sprawled out" or "sleep facing the north (the land of the dead)". 75:
ceremony, the ancestral spirit supposedly would enter the descendant "corpse" personator, who would eat and drink sacrificial offerings and convey messages from the spirit.
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have the character of an impersonator. It is likely the masks were used to impersonate and identify with certain supernatural beings in order to effect some communal good.
959:: "Perchance the army carries corpses in the wagon. Misfortune ... Let the eldest lead the army. The younger transports corpses. Then perseverance brings misfortune." 457:"lay out; set forth, array; arrange; display". Examples in classic texts range from specifically "lay out (a corpse)" to generally "lay out; set out; arrange". The 1091:, with an estimated alcohol content from 5% to 8%, and volume measurements of Zhou bronze sacrificial cups, Paper calculates a "conservative estimate is that the 976:
Marshall concludes this hexagram refers to carrying a corpse, and compares the "Israelites carrying the Ark of the Covenant into battle against the Philistines".
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Alcohol and Altered States of Consciousness in Ancestor Veneration Rituals of Zhou Dynasty China and Iron Age Palestine; A New Approach to Ancestor Rituals
1033:既醉 "Already Drunk") describes a sacrificial feast for ancestral spirits, and says "the representative of the (dead) princes makes a happy announcement". 1207:
they sat. Under , when the cup went round among all, there were six personators. said, "The usages of might be compared to a subscription club." (10)
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wore bronze masks "symbolizing the spirit of the dead to whom the sacrifices were offered". Liu believes the phantasmagoric bronze masks discovered at
990:("Classic of Poetry", c. 11th – 6th centuries BCE) contains early and detailed descriptions of personation ceremonies, in the following themes. 1229:
simultaneously to several ancestors each of whom was represented, the ceremony was found indeed to assume a displeasing likeness to a picnic."
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was generally a close, young relative who wore a costume (possibly including a mask) reproducing the features of the dead person. The
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contains three passages where Zengzi questions his teacher about whether personators were needed for ancestral rituals. For instance:
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At ancestral sacrifices, the ancestral spirits descend into individuals designated from among their descendants, the "Impersonators" (
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from them. Some half-baked literati of our days would fain re-establish this ceremony of the personator. This is quite absurd.
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The second opinion is that the personator was not the agent of the departed, but merely its metaphorical representative or
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The Chinese Classics, Vol. IV - Part I: The first part of the She-king, or the Lessons from the States; the Prolegomena
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consumed between 2.4 and 3.9 ounces of pure alcohol (equivalent to between 5 and 8 bar shots of eighty-proof liquor)."
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to "corpse-like", which can contextually mean either "motionless; calm; quiescent" or "inactive; negligent; remiss". A
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than their elders, created an exception to traditional Chinese culture. The earliest textual reference comes from the
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Later sources repeat this legendary history of personation. For example, He Xiu 何休's 2nd-century commentary to the
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stock, the soul of the departed person is requested to come and establish its seat in one of them as in an agent.
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wrote that "young and simple persons" make the most suitable mediums. Stephen Bokenkamp mentions examples besides
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Obviously, rendering this into English is problematic because there is no Western analogy for the ceremonial
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personation originated. Henri Doré summarizes the four principal opinions, which are worth quoting in full.
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explained that a child makes the best personator owing to the ancient Chinese belief that a soul is small.
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was a wooden ancestral tablet shaped in the image of the deceased. Karlgren disagreed and argued that the
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von Falkenhausen, Lothar. 1995. "Reflections on the Political Role of Spirit Mediums in Early China: The
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Scholars have differing hypotheses explaining why a grandchild would make the most suitable personator.
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poem (185) refers to men called off to war, "There are mothers who set forth the (sacrificial) dishes."
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Meaning (1) is the core sense of "corpse; dead body; cadaver; carcass". Early ritual texts, notably the
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Carr notes, "This passage sounds as though Ban had personally observed a personation ceremony."
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sacrificial wine and food, "he presents them to our representative of the dead and to our guests."
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The Chinese Classics, Vol. I - Confucian Analects, the Great Learning, and the Doctrine of the Mean
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scholars held a third opinion, namely, that the personator was bearer of the ancestral tablet. The
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odes 247 and 248, which portray ancestral feasts to the Zhou royal house, exclusively use the term
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meaning (2) "personator; sacrificial representative of a dead person's spirit" is discussed below.
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is too general in meaning, and does not usually have a sense of spirituality, unless modified by
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would be possible, but this word implies falsehood, which was not originally associated with the
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If the original personators were bicameral, they could have directly hallucinated voices from a
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spirit, it reversed the normal family hierarchy and a father would have to worship his own son.
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Reflections on the Dawn of Consciousness: Julian Jaynes's Bicameral Mind Theory Revisited
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Erkes, Eduard (1931). "Some Remarks on Karlgren's 'Fecundity symbols in Ancient China".
1415: 815: 368:(2) "personator" with the metaphorical replacement "ancestral tablet". Meaning (6) uses 1382: 1224: 1110: 631: 251: 2418: 2408: 1559: 1534: 1508: 1496: 1378: 1370: 1149: 1141: 1137: 1105: 238:(c. 1045 BCE – c. 256 BCE), had a more curved back and legs. The graphically reduced 223: 198: 127: 1320: 1275: 809: 601: 535: 235: 194: 2013: 2074: 1986: 1703: 1621: 1563: 1538: 1427: 1300: 1192: 913: 702: 635: 247: 239: 142: 76: 64: 908:尸 hundreds of times. Lothar von Falkenhausen contrasts the frequently recorded 123: 108: 1439: 1419: 1153: 884: 821: 803: 262: 186: 93: 89: 1990: 1625: 1523:. Translated by Karlgren, Bernhard. Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities. 1950. 1386: 1242: 863:, which has a parallel 'one who embodies' etymology, but the derivate words 444: 166: 138: 1442:, dating from c. 12th–11th centuries BCE, might have been ritually worn by 317:屍 'dead-corpse' graphically distinguishes the original 'corpse' meaning of 1202:
chapters describe how personation rituals changed during the Zhou period.
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showing a person with a bent back and dangling legs. The first records of
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Erkes countered Karlgren by citing other texts describing a human-shaped
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were the same for a ruler, a great officer, and an ordinary officer. (22)
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description of Zhou "subscription club" personation ceremonies quotes
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The first opinion is that personation was a bygone superstition. The
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Dynasty when personators were no longer able to speak for the dead.
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Zhou dynasty classic texts (c. 11th–3rd centuries BCE) use the word
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pronunciation of 尸 phonologically descends from (c. 6th century CE)
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The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
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Carr, Michael. 1985. "Personation of the Dead in Ancient China,"
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The Spirits Are Drunk: Comparative Approaches to Chinese Religion
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said the basic reason was a predominance of uterine over agnatic
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Ancestors and Anxiety: Daoism and the Birth of Rebirth in China
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Meaning (6) includes some semantically unrelated usages of
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Masks of Mystery: Ancient Chinese Bronzes from Sanxingdui
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Chinese scholars have long disagreed about when and how
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Computational Analysis of Asian & African Languages
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meanings are contextually ambiguous. For instance, the
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Erkes, Eduard. 1928. “Idols in Pre-Buddhistic China.”
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The Chinese Classics, Vol. II - The works of Mencius
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The Mandate of Heaven: Hidden History in the I Ching
1393:'s voice) while another part listened and obeyed. 359:Carr outlines the semantic connections among these 2012: 216:"barbarian; non-Chinese people (esp. eastern, see 1485:Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities 1174:Two ritual texts mention female personators. The 546:"corpse; spirit tablet". Erkes proposed that the 355:(6) "proper names (of a place, family, and bird)" 67:" who represented a dead relative during ancient 2359:. Sydney: Art Gallery of New South Wales. p. 37. 2198:The I-li: or Book of Etiquette and Ceremonial. 843:is chosen as the nearest English translation. 8: 955:尸 "carry corpses; corpse carrier" twice for 280:"urine" with 水 "water"), but not all (e.g., 1365:Carr offers a contemporary explanation for 1152:mentions a Greek parallel: the philosopher 58: 2144:The Local Cultures of South and East China 1478:. Julian Jaynes Society. pp. 343–416. 300:that combines the "corpse radical" 尸 with 1875:An Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese 1849:Minimal Old Chinese and Later Han Chinese 725:尸 "the dead, corpse" were etymologically 2171:. University of California Press. p. 40. 1969: 1749: 1686: 1377:hypothesis. Jaynes proposed that human " 604:尸子, c. 390 – 330 BCE); and a variant of 209:尸 "corpse" was used interchangeably for 137: 122: 107: 1932: 1920: 1609: 797:English translations of the ceremonial 527:木主 "wooden spirit/ancestral tablet" or 51: 16:Practice in Chinese ancestor veneration 2355:Liu Yang and Edmund Capon, eds. 2000. 2319: 2266: 2254: 2225: 2209: 2180: 2155: 2146:. tr. A. Eberhard. E.J. Brill. p. 338. 2127: 2111: 2095: 2041: 1733: 1670: 729:. Paul K. Benedict suggested possible 393:"Etiquette and Rites", frequently use 2343: 2284:Researches into Chinese Superstitions 2057: 2029: 1809: 1796: 781:, except when they share an initial * 7: 2331: 2307: 2295: 2242: 1957: 1886: 1825:. Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities. 1658: 1646: 63:'corpse') was a ceremonial " 1948:. Columbia University Press. p. 77. 1836:A Handbook of Old Chinese Phonology 1056:piled up (heavily =) amply on you. 912:"personator" with the rarely noted 761:"to die", "because the MC initial 538:and Bernhard Karlgren debated this 352:(5) "manage; direct; spirit tablet" 343:(2) "personator of a dead ancestor" 340:(1) "corpse; body of a dead person" 2430:Practices in Chinese folk religion 611:(which is used in bird names like 450:Meaning (4) is defined as Chinese 14: 1763:Ch’u Tz'u: The Songs of the South 1339:philosophers held this judgment. 1186:Historical changes in personation 1087:personator drinking nine cups of 709:"corpse". Karlgren proposed that 567:"wooden lord". For instance, the 424:Meaning (3) figuratively expands 1073:frequently drinking sacrificial 1716:Cosimo Classics reprint, 2009, 891:will translate this meaning of 701:There are several hypothetical 592:尸 is an ancient place name (in 472:(with the "wood radical" and a 287:"house; room" with 至 "go to"). 261:尸 is more commonly used as the 88:practice would be described as 1877:. University of Hawai’i Press. 1595:. Translated by C. F. Baynes. 1593:The I Ching or Book of Changes 1299:神象 "image of the spirit". The 871:commonly have other meanings. 619:Pronunciations and etymologies 349:(4) "lay out; arrange; expose" 39: 1: 2387:The Religious System of China 1851:. University of Hawaii Press. 1562:), Chs. 11–46. Translated by 1430:is a recent hypothesis about 1222:("Spring and Autumn Annals") 405:contexts. Here is an example 250:(221–207 BCE), resembles the 201:(c. 1600 – c. 1046 BCE). The 2167:Bokenkamp, Stephen R. 2007. 1537:), Chs. 1–10. Translated by 831:. Carr reviews the choices. 439:("Confucian Analects") uses 372:to transcribe proper names. 169:, and English translations. 69:Chinese ancestral sacrifices 1470:Carr, Michael (2007). "The 232:Chinese bronze inscriptions 2466: 2371:Armstrong, David E. 1998. 1862:Sino-Tibetan: A Conspectus 1821:Karlgren, Bernhard. 1957. 1597:Princeton University Press 921:"shaman; spirit medium". 615:鳲鳩 "cuckoo; turtledove"). 465:尸 "uncoffined corpse" and 346:(3) "motionless; inactive" 293:尸 "corpse; cadaver" has a 246:, standardized during the 234:dating from the Shang and 2385:de Groot, J. J. M. 1910. 2200:Probsthain, 1917. p. 119. 1834:Baxter, William H. 1992. 1761:Tr. Hawkes, David, 1959. 1591:Wilhelm, Richard (1967). 1578:Paper, Jordan D. (1995). 1503:. Routledge / Kegan Paul. 948:("Book of Changes") uses 777:) never derives from an * 634:and (c. 6th century BCE) 295:variant Chinese character 30: 2425:Anthropology of religion 2077:(2nd revised ed.). 1873:Schuessler, Axel. 2007. 1860:Benedict, Paul K. 1972. 1847:Schuessler, Axel. 2009. 1706:(2nd revised ed.). 1558:. Volume 28: The Li Ki ( 1555:Sacred Books of the East 1533:. Volume 27: The Li Ki ( 1530:Sacred Books of the East 1245:'s student and compiler 1233:Doubts about personation 861:Incorporator of the Dead 596:); a surname (e.g., the 222:); at ease; level". The 1823:Grammata Serica Recensa 1568:Oxford University Press 1543:Oxford University Press 1361:the sacrifice offered. 1069:, other texts refer to 757:"corpse" is cognate to 271:List of Kangxi radicals 2411:, Chinese Text Project 2389:. 6 vols. E. J. Brill. 1944:Marshall, S. 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Paper suggests 731:Proto-Sino-Tibetan 717:死 "die, dead" and 269:(number 44 in the 267:Chinese characters 203:oracle bone script 151: 136: 121: 113:Oracle bone script 2445:Spirit possession 2400:Unihan data for 尸 2310:, pp. 387–8. 2158:, pp. 344–5. 2140:Eberhard, Wilhelm 2130:, pp. 337–8. 2015:The Book of Songs 1972:, pp. 203–4. 1902:Officials in the 1889:, pp. 364–5. 1373:'s psychological 1099:Child personators 879:are similar with 664:Bernhard Karlgren 159:Chinese character 98:spirit possession 61: 2457: 2360: 2353: 2347: 2341: 2335: 2329: 2323: 2317: 2311: 2305: 2299: 2293: 2287: 2280: 2274: 2264: 2258: 2252: 2246: 2239: 2233: 2223: 2217: 2207: 2201: 2194: 2188: 2178: 2172: 2165: 2159: 2153: 2147: 2137: 2131: 2125: 2119: 2109: 2103: 2093: 2087: 2086: 2073:. Translated by 2067: 2061: 2055: 2049: 2039: 2033: 2027: 2021: 2020: 2018: 2009: 2003: 2002: 1985:. 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Index

Chinese
pinyin
Wade–Giles
personator
Chinese ancestral sacrifices
James Legge
necromancy
mediumship
spirit possession

Oracle bone script

Bronze script

Seal script
Chinese character
historical phonology
semantics

pictographs
oracle bones
Shang dynasty
oracle bone script

Dongyi
bronze script
Chinese bronze inscriptions
Zhou dynasty
seal script
Qin dynasty

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