What are the three rites of Confucian culture and Confucian classics? Rites of Zhou —— A book about the ancient political system of China.
The Book of Rites-the most complete book to preserve the ancient etiquette in China (it is said that Confucius once asked Laozi for etiquette).
The Book of Rites —— A Book on the Function and Significance of Rites
Zhou Li, Yi Li and Li Ji, collectively known as the Three Rites, are the confluence of etiquette systems and etiquette theories in ancient society. It is the system of slave society in China and the moral standard of slave society and feudal society.
As a legal system, it is the embodiment of the slave social and political system, the superstructure to maintain the patriarchal clan system and hierarchical system, and the corresponding etiquette in interpersonal communication.
As a moral norm, it is the norm of all behaviors of slave owners, nobles and feudal landlords. Before Confucius, there were Li Xia, Li Yin and Zhou Li. The ritual system of Xia, Yin and Zhou Dynasties was relatively perfect in the Duke of Zhou.
As an ideological form, etiquette is inseparable from "benevolence" in Confucius' ideological system. Confucius said, "If people are heartless, what is a gift?" He advocated the rule of virtue, that is, rule of virtue by virtue and rule of virtue by courtesy, which broke the restriction that "courtesy cannot surpass Shu Ren". In the Warring States period, with the formation of feudal system, the ritual system of slave society was gradually abolished. Mencius regards benevolence, righteousness, propriety and wisdom as the basic moral norms, and regards propriety as "the heart of compromise", which has become one of human virtues. Xunzi paid more attention to ceremony than Mencius. He wrote On Ceremony, which demonstrated the origin and social function of "ceremony". In his view, the ceremony made everyone in the society have a proper position in the feudal hierarchy such as nobility, age, wealth and so on.
In the long-term historical development, etiquette, as the moral norm and life criterion of China feudal society, played an important role in cultivating the spiritual quality of the Chinese nation. At the same time, with the change and development of society, especially in the late feudal society, it has increasingly become a rope that binds people's thoughts and behaviors and affects the progress and development of social history.