」使子貢往而觀之。
其穿,深不至泉,其斂,以時服。
Kongzi heard of it and said, “Jizi of Yanling is a man of Wu who is thoroughly conversant with ritual.” He sent Zigong67 to observe the proceedings.
既葬封,壙墳掩坎,其高可隱也。
既封,左袒右旋其封,且號者三,言曰:「骨肉歸復於土,命也。
In digging the grave pit, he did not make it so deep that it reached an underground spring, and, for coffin cerements, he used attire suited to the season. Having completed the mound, he made the monument and capstone; this was no taller than what a person might lean upon. Having heaped up the earth, he bared his left shoulder, cast his gaze on the mound to the right, and keened three times, saying, “That your bones and flesh have now been returned to the earth is destiny.
若魂氣則無不之也,無不之也!
」而遂行。
孔子曰:「延陵季子於禮其合矣。」
But your spirit can now go everywhere, it can now go everywhere.” Then he left.Kongzi said, “What Yanling Jizi did was consistent with ritual.” On the Three Years of Mourning