Understand etiquette-deeply understand the meaning and specific scope of use of etiquette.

Politeness-learn how to use manners, how not to be rude, and how to understand the manners given to you by others.

Etiquette-the concrete application of etiquette in real life.

The interpretation of the word "Li" in Xu Shen's Shuo Wen Jie Zi in the Eastern Han Dynasty is: "Things are blessed by the gods, and words are also heard." It means to put the agreed things into practice and show them to the gods for blessing.

The word "Li" is a knowing word, and "Shi" refers to the gods. From this, it can be analyzed that the word "Li" is related to the ancient ritual of offering sacrifices to the gods. The ancient sacrificial activities were not carried out at will, but in strict accordance with certain procedures and methods.

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In ancient China, there were five rituals: auspicious ceremony, wedding ceremony, guest ceremony, military ceremony and funeral ceremony. ?

According to folklore, etiquette includes four kinds of life etiquette: birth, coronation, wedding and funeral. Actually, etiquette can be divided into politics and life. Politics includes offering sacrifices to heaven, land, ancestral temples, teachers and sages, respecting teachers and respecting morality, and meeting each other through drinking? , military salute, etc. Life includes five sacrifices, high sacrifice, Nuo ceremony, birth ceremony, crown ceremony, food etiquette, gift etiquette and so on. ?

Chinese etiquette plays the role of "quasi-legalist" in China culture. Chinese etiquette permeates people's daily life. Table manners, hospitality, visiting gifts, etc.

China is a state of etiquette that has been passed down for thousands of years, and its teachings spread overseas. According to legend, more than 3,000 years ago, during the Yin and Zhou Dynasties, the Duke of Zhou put forward the program of propriety. Later, after Confucius and the seventies, as well as the advocacy and improvement of Mencius and Xunzi, the ritual and music civilization became the core of Confucian culture.

After the Western Han Dynasty, as the theoretical form of ritual and music culture and the source of ancient ritual system, Yili, Zhou Li and Li Ji were successively listed as scholars, which not only became the classics that ancient scholars must read, but also became the basis of ritual system in past dynasties, and had a far-reaching impact on China culture and history.

With the formation of Confucian cultural circle in East Asia, ritual and music culture has naturally become an important feature of eastern civilization. Undoubtedly, to understand the traditional culture of China, we must understand the etiquette culture of China.

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