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Da Dai Liji

大戴禮記 (Record of Rites by the Elder Dai)

A separate, longer selection of Warring States ritual essays survives alongside his nephew Dai Sheng's better-known Liji, proof that Han scholars disagreed over which ritual texts deserved canonical status.

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  • Book of Rites · c. 300-50 BC (Warring States ritual essays compiled into their current form in the Western Han)

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