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• Highly esteem filial piety and brotherly submission to give due weight to social relations.
  
  
• Behave generously toward your family to promote harmony and peace.
  
  
• Cultivate peace within the neighborhood to prevent quarrels and lawsuits.
  
  
• Respect farming and the cultivation of mulberry trees to ensure sufficient clothing and food.
  
  
• Be moderate and economical in order to avoid wasting away your livelihood.
  
  
• Give weight to schools and academies in order to honor the scholar.
  
  
• Wipe out strange beliefs to elevate the correct doctrine.
  
  
• Elucidate the laws in order to warn the ignorant and obstinate.
  
  
• Show propriety and tactful courtesy to elevate customs and manners.
  
  
• Work diligently in your chosen callings to quiet your ambitions.
  
  
• Instruct children and younger brethren to keep them from doing wrong.
  
  
• Hold back false accusations to safeguard the good and honest.
  
  
• Warn against sheltering deserters lest you share their punishment.
  
  
• Promptly and fully pay your taxes lest you need be pressed to pay them.
  
  
• Join together in hundreds and tithings to end theft and robbery.
  
  
• Free yourself from enmity and anger to show respect for your body and life.
  

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Early on the first and middle of every month, the civil and military officers, dressed in their uniform, meet in a clean, spacious, public hall. The superintendent who is called Orsehtano calls aloud, "stand forth in files.” They do so, according to their rank: he then says; "kneel thrice, and bow the head nine times." They kneel, and bow to the ground, with their faces towards a platform, on which is placed a board with the Emperor's name. He next calls aloud, "rise and retire." They rise, and all go to a hall, or kind of chapel, where the law is usually read; and where military and people are assembled standing round in silence.

The Orsehtano then says, "Respectfully commence." The Quetano Istyarion (orator), advancing towards an incense-altar, kneels; reverently takes up the board on which the maxim appointed for the day is written, and ascends a stage with it. An old man receives the board, and puts it down on the stage, fronting the people. Then, commanding silence with a wooden rattle which he carries in his hand, he kneels, and reads it. When he has finished, the Orsehtano calls out, "Explain such a section, or maxim, of the sacred edict." The orator stands up, and gives the sense. In reading and expounding other parts of the law, the same forms are also observed.