shì​fǎ

posthumous titling system

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    shì​fǎ

    posthumous titling system

    (literary) The traditional system of conferring posthumous titles based on a person's life and achievements; established in the Zhou Dynasty and continued until the late Qing Dynasty.

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    Shifa

    The title of a book compiled by Su Xun of the Song Dynasty, which standardized the historical rules for posthumous titling.

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