Sacrifices are concerned with the feelings of devotion and longing. If he is greatly moved by his feelings, but he restrains himself and does not express them, he will be incomplete in ritual. Therefore the ncient kings established ways to fulfill the principle of honoring t-hose deserving honor and expressing closeness to relatives. Hence, sacrifices are concerned with the feelinig of devotion and 1onging. They fulfil loyalty, faith, love, and respect.
Ritual conduct is the perfection of decorum.
Onlysages can fully understand this. Sages comprehend it, gentlemen comfortaby carry thm out, officials preserve them, and the common people consider them to be the custom. Bad Human nature is bad. Good is a human product. If they follow these inclinations, they will struggle and snatch from each other, and inclinations to defer or yield will die.