The Clue of the New Pin by Edgar Wallace

To the left of the vermilion door of Yeh Ling's new house was a tablet let into the brick buttress inscribed with those words which to the old Chinese represent the beginning and end of philosophical piety: Kuang tsung yu tou, which in English may be roughly translated: "Let your acts reflect glory upon your ancestors."

Yeh Ling, for all his Western civilization, would one day burn gold paper before a shrine within those vermilion doors and would stand with hidden hands before the family shrine and ask commendation and approval for his important acts.