
T’ang and Sung China with Peter Bol
Conversations in World History
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The Importance of Ritual in Confucianism
Ritual is what you use to prevent people from doing wrong. Otherwise have chaos. Rulers who are able to rule through virtue is to rule through ritual, right? So I do the handshaking a slightly modified version where a student answers a question correctly and I just walk across the room and say that was an incredible answer. And we talk about that and then a little bit afterwards I do the same thing, except I hold out my fist right like a fist bump in the student knows right to do a to do a fist bump. We also talk about the fact that on the first day of school asked them to remember what was the very first thing they did when they walked into
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