ABSTRACT
A specialist in the ancient rites, Dai Sheng 戴聖, together with his uncle (considered by some to be his father), salvaged and edited a body of writings on the ethical, political, aesthetic, and anthropological aspects of the rites. Unknown in his time, he stayed out of the controversies surrounding the authenticity of the ancient-classical texts, and provided a liberal assemblage of the diverse interpretations and delineations of the many different cultural forms through which individuals related to society and nature.
