1
From this we can understand the meaning and object of ancestral rites.
2
The early Jesuit policy in China, as established by Ricci, had been to leave converts free to practise the ancestral rites.
3
His first act was to worship at the Kaaba, but before completing the whole ancestral rites he destroyed the idols that polluted the sanctuary.
4
Thus Isocrates writes,(2) "This was all their care, neither to destroy any of the ancestral rites, nor to add aught beyond what was ordained".