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Pei Yaoqing
裴耀卿
Pei Yaoqing
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Chief Attendant
侍中
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Pei Yaoqing
裴耀卿
Pei Yaoqing
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Yaoqing
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Old Book of Tang, Chapter 27 Volume 23 Treatises 3: Rites 3 · 2 passages
侍中裴耀卿、中書令張九齡、禮部尚書李林甫等奏曰：「外族之親，禮無厭降。
Chief Attendant Pei Yaoqing, Grand Counselor Zhang Jiuling, Minister of Rites Li Linfu, and others wrote: "External kin are not subject to ritual demotion.
玄宗又手製答曰：「從服有六，此其一也。降殺之制，禮無明文。此皆自身率親，用為制服。所有存抑，儘是推恩。朕情有未安，故令詳議，非欲苟求變古，以示不同。卿等以為『外族之親，禮無厭降，報服之制，所引甚疏』。且姨舅者，屬從之至近也，以親言之，則亦姑伯之匹敵也。豈有所引者疏，而降所親者服？又婦，從夫者也。夫之姨舅，夫既有服，從夫而服，由是睦親。實欲令不肖者企及，賢者俯就。卿等宜熟詳之。」耀卿等奏曰：「陛下體至仁之德，廣推恩之道，將弘引進，以示睦親，再發德音，更令詳議。
Xuanzong again composed a personal reply: "There are six kinds of derivative mourning, and this is one of them. As for the rules of lowering and reducing, the ritual has no clear text. These all proceed from oneself in leading kin and are used to make mourning dress. What is preserved and restrained is entirely a pushing outward of grace. My feeling is not settled, and therefore I ordered detailed deliberation; I did not wish merely to seek alteration of antiquity in order to show difference. You and the others consider that 'for kin of the external clan, ritual has no suppressing reduction, and the reciprocal mourning system is drawn from very distant cases.' But maternal aunts and uncles belong to the closest of derivative kin. Speaking by kinship, they also match paternal aunts and uncles. How could the examples cited be distant, while the mourning for close kin is reduced? Also, a wife follows her husband. Since the husband has mourning for his maternal aunts and uncles, she wears mourning by following her husband, and in this way kinship is harmonized. I truly wish to make the unworthy reach upward and the worthy bend downward. You and the others should examine this thoroughly." Yaoqing and the others memorialized: "Your Majesty embodies utmost benevolence and extends the Way of grace broadly, intending to enlarge drawing-in and show harmony among kin; you have again issued virtuous words and again ordered detailed deliberation.