chine ancienne, chine antique, civilisation chinoise: chine ancienne, chine antique, civilisation chinoise: Jacob Maria de Groot, The Religious System of China. its ancient forms, evolution, history and present aspect. Manners, customs and social institutions connected therewith. Volume I : Disposal of the Dead : Funeral rites

The Religious System of China (Volume I) (1894)
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Une édition électronique réalisée à partir du texte de l'ouvrage de Johann Jacob Maria de Groot, The Religious System of China. its ancient forms, evolution, history and present aspect. Manners, customs and social institutions connected therewith. Volume I : Disposal of the Dead : Funeral rites — The ideas of resurrection. Édition originale, E. J. Brill, Leiden, 1892, 360 pages + illustrations. Réimpression : Literature House, Ltd, Taipei, Taiwan, 1964. Une édition réalisée par Pierre Palpant, bénévole, Paris.

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General Preface

BOOK I. DISPOSAL OF THE DEAD.

Introduction

PART I. FUNERAL RITES.

Chapter

I. The Decease.

II. The Interval between Death and the Dressing of the Corpse.

III. Dressing the Corpse : The Grave Clothes — Dressing the Dead.

IV. Sacrifices and Rites between the Dressing and the Coffining.

V. The Coffining.

VI. The Interval between Coffining and Burial.

VII. The Burial.

VIII. Usages after the Removal of the Coffin and after the Burial.

IX. The Relationship between the ancient and modern Funeral Rites.

PART II. THE IDEAS 0F RESURRECTION.

Chapter

I. Calling back the Soul. The Death-howl.

II. On postponing the Dressing of be Dead, Coffining and Burial.

III. On placing Precious Objects in the Mouth of the Dead.

IV. On Coffins and Grave Vaults.

V. On some other Usages prompted by the Belief in a Resurrection : Washing and Dressing the Dead. — Keeping the Dead unmutilated.

VI. On the Cohabitation of the Soul and the Body after Death.

VII. Placing Food in the Mouth and by the Side of the Deceased.