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2. Afterwards when Fan Ch'ih was driving him the Master told him, saying: "Meng Sun asked me what filial piety meant, and I replied 'Not being disobedient.'" 3. Fan Ch'ih thereupon asked, "What did you mean? "The Master answered: "While parents live serve them with decorum; when they are dead bury them with decorum, and sacrifice to them with decorum."

CHAPTER VI.

When Meng Wu Po asked what filial duty meant the Master