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禮崩樂壞 礼崩乐坏 [li3 beng1 yue4 huai4] /rites and music are in ruins (idiom); fig. society in total disarray/cf. 禮樂|礼乐[li3 yue4]/Reference definitions and teaching material have separate provenance.
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