The festival celebrates both the living and the dead.

这节日既庆祝生者也颂死者。

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Who shall render account to him, who is ready to judge the living and the dead.

但他们要向那已准备审判生死者的主交账。

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But they will have to give account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.

他们必在那将要审判活人死人的主面前交账。

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The brave men,living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract.

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The brave men,living and dead,who struggled here,have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract.

VOA: special.2009.02.06

And to honor the traditional Chinese belief that the spirits of the dead could protect the living.

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In the aftermath of battle survivors often shoveled corpses into pits as they would dispose of animals "in bunches, just like dead chickens, " one observer noted dehumanizing both the living and the dead through their disregard.

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