Shi (personator)
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Shi (personator)
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The shi was a ceremonial "personator" who represented a dead relative during ancient Chinese ancestral sacrifices. In a shi ceremony, the ancestral spirit supposedly would enter the descendant "corpse" personator, who would eat and drink sacrificial offerings and convey messages from the spirit. James Legge, an early translator of the Chinese classics, described shi personation ceremonies as "grand family reunions where the dead and the living met, eating and drinking together, where the living
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Practice in Chinese ancestor veneration
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shi_(personator)
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2024-04-20T02:00:23Z
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