Mural guide
Looking out from an open pavilion across a courtyard, a thread-bound book lies open beside a tied bundle of bamboo slips on a low table, with a zither on a stand behind and a tiny reader in a far pavilion; at the left a shelf is packed with bound volumes and slip bundles.
Yueji Chapters
The Book of Rites' nineteenth chapter, eleven sections joined as one
Introduction
The Yueji is the nineteenth chapter of the Book of Rites and opens with the line “All sounds arise from the human heart.” The text as we have it keeps eleven sections, named Yueben, Yuelun, Yueshi, Yueyan, Yueli, Yueqing, Yuehua, Yuexiang, Bin Mou Jia, Shi Yi and Marquis Wen of Wei, joined into one chapter; twelve others survive only as titles.