弘明集 4.31

4.31

Reply: You say: 'Outside the market kitchens,' and so forth. Offering purified sacrifices and buried offerings, calves with horns like cocoon-chestnuts, and the three victims for the ancestral temple and altars of soil and grain; offering fragrant bean-platters and meat-stands to supply guests; elders of seventy waiting for meat to be satisfied—how could one only lay out grass and stones and procure superior medicines? What I worry cannot be established is not to say that the grand thesis is hard to maintain, but rather, stepping back, I suspect this matter cannot be abruptly eliminated from the world.