DAO DE JING CHAPTER 31 — READING RECORD

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What is stated in the text?
What is my interpretation?
Which preceding/following line changes the meaning?
What does the repeated mourning language add?
Textual or historical question still unresolved:
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Sequence to keep in view:
Inauspicious weapons → different honours in military use → constrained use
and refusal to glorify killing → mourning rites → grief even in victory.

This is an original reading aid, not a scholarly edition, an authenticated
record of Laozi's spoken words, a funeral manual or a modern policy rule.
English renderings in the accompanying article are the site's own working
translations of the received text displayed on the linked Wang Bi edition page.