儒家的祭祀不仅是一种类宗教仪式，而且它所确立的是自孔子以来的文化道统，是一个书院及其士人的精神命脉。

Confucian sacrifice is not only a religious ceremony, but what it conforms is a sort of cultural tradition after Confucius, spiritual essence of an academy as well as its scholars.

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And,again,to us in the modern world, if you didn't already have some exposure to religious narratives like this,that would sound odd.

同样的，对现代人来说，如果没接触过这类宗教描述,可能会觉得奇怪。

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