The Book of Rites is a collection of classical liturgical system theories, and the Book of Rites is divided into "Great Dai Li" and "Little Dai Li", generally referring to "Little Dai Li", compiled by the Western Han Dynasty scholar Dai Shengshou, and a total of forty-nine articles seen today. The Book of Rites, together with the Zhou Li and the Rites, is a great integration of treatises on rites, including the content of various rites, the records of the emergence and evolution of the ceremonial system, and various expositions on rites, etc. The content is rigorous and complex.
"Etiquette" includes not only various regulations and rituals in social life, but also various political and legal systems. The content of the Book of Rites is a detailed description of the "Rites". "Ritual" is divided into five categories: auspicious ceremony, fierce ceremony, military ceremony, military ceremony, and Jiali, auspicious ceremony is the ritual of sacrifice, the ancients attach great importance to sacrifice, because there are many natural phenomena, social phenomena can not be explained, only through the sacrifice of various ghosts and gods to achieve a psychological balance, the object of sacrifice for the heavens and the earth, the sun, moon, stars, sheji, five mountains, mountains, rivers and lakes and hundreds of things with great power. Ji Li is the first of the five rites, especially in an agricultural civilization like Our country, and the sacrifices of successive generations belong to the "major events of the country".
The "Book of Rites" in the "Book of Rites" made a general description of the rites, "rites" from the oldest sacrificial activities, is the clan members to pray for protection, life is formulated, with the entry into class society, "rites" become a ruler's indoctrination tool, the content and form of "rites" will also evolve dynamically with the changes in society, but the distinction between the inferior classes of society is strictly separated, thus delineating different classes of society, even if the similar scenes in today's society are deliberately blurred, Although its fancy style is different, it also conceals the dignity and inferiority of "etiquette", and the Book of Rites also believes that "etiquette" is the basis of moral cultivation and human relations, and is the basic framework of the structural form of social tower-shaped order.
It can be said that for thousands of years, the "Book of Rites" on various etiquette systems and harsh requirements, fully expressed the ruling class's extreme attention to "etiquette", as well as the overall ethical mentality of the Chinese people and the strong and deep influence of social psychology, until today, whether it is a social figure with a head and a face in the upper class, or a cloth-clad people in the streets and alleys, still pay attention to etiquette and exchanges are not unrelated to this, the "etiquette" constraint affects the moral upholding of the hearts of the Chinese people and the regulation of interpersonal communication, passed down from generation to generation. It has become a linear backbone and moral adherence that profoundly affects the development of Chinese civilization.
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