On The Community Drinking Ceremony Of Ming And Qing Dynasties

The Community Dringking Ceremony is a public etiquette with the goal of showing respect to the ageds, choosing able and virtuals, and publicizing civilization in ancient china .The Ming and Qing Dynasty's Community Dringking Ceremony showing respect to ageds and nobles, referenced Zhou , Tang , Song , and were changed by government. This phenomenon had very close relations with Confucianism's political morals philosophy and ethics which based on distinguishing between honoured and humblie, ageds and youngs. Community Dringking Ceremony is a performing in essence based on the cooperation between officals and elites of village for conducting society order, and was set as examples for the common people .The Community Dringking Ceremony in the Ming and Qing dynasties, could be divided into state/country form and vilage form by their ranks. It held by state/country government was an effective means for local officials' controling grass-root society. Local officials offen choosed those honoured ageds as their guests, and hoped their prestige and moral could help their treating with numerous complicated affairs. That Community Dringking Ceremony held in vilages had a strong distinguishing feature of villagers' autonomy, and safeguarded villages' social order acting in concert with Baojia ,XiangYue, ZunZu which were aslo villagers' autonous organization. For some people, being envited to take parting in Community Dringking Ceremony was glorious; but for others , it was awkward, becase that many mean rich people acquiered guests' seats by bribe made those truly qualified candidates felt it was a shame and refused taking part in.Community Dringking Ceremony was established for mataining good morale, but itself were impacted by the change of society atmosphere too. When local government's offairs were trivial, or their finance were strain, offten neglected as a matter of no urgency by local officals. But many regions still kept Community Dringking Ceremony, although their financial support were deprived by central government during the later period of Qing danasty. After shaking off political features, The Community Dringking Ceremony coverted into a kind of folk custom, and existed until the Republic of China, because it's historical inertia and it's philosophy conformed to the Chinese salutation to the ageds and nobles.