Shu Ching. The Canon of Yao/The Canon of Shun, Chapter 6.
6. After twenty-eight years the Ti deceased, when the people mourned for him as for a parent for three years. Within the four seas all the eight kinds of instruments of music were stopped and hushed. On the first day of the first month (of the) next year, Shun went to (the temple of) the Accomplished Ancestor.
Text source: Shu Ching, The Book of History. Translated by James Legge
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