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In Han times, at feasts for guests, weddings, and other joyous gatherings in the capital, people would always perform “Kuilei”; once the company was flushed with wine, they would follow it with dirges. “Kuilei” was music for a house in mourning; dirges were songs sung in response to one another by those holding the ropes of a funeral carriage. It was as though Heaven were issuing a warning: “The state will soon be laid waste, and all the great who make merry will perish.” After Emperor Ling died, the capital was devastated. In every household lay corpses heaped together, crawling with maggots that fed upon them. Was this not the fulfillment of the omen in “Kuilei” and the dirges?