"taoist Instrument Of Good And Bad" School Release And Preliminary Study

China is a very strong culture of ethics developed countries, life and death around the eternal theme of the two humans, resulting in a series of ritual culture. Among them, the ancient ritual of the funeral as an important part, related to the ancient concept of the afterlife, and cognition, are rich and unique cultural connotation. However, the long main Confucian scholars are more concerned about the funeral of Taoist studies in this area is relatively small. This paper documents the early Tang Dynasty, "good and bad priests instrument" as the main object of study, to explore the development of the situation Taoist funeral rites. Which in the "good and bad priests instrument" study, the first correction and annotation were carried out, starting from the primitive information on the background of Taoist funeral ceremony to establish a preliminary analysis and a more complete summary of the Taoist funeral ceremony understand the process and the ceremony involved the funeral of the clothing system, the service system. Meanwhile, Taoist and Confucian funeral relationship between the starting point of the relationship and the similarities and differences, from which we will find some of Taoist funeral ceremony in the main (especially the title) with the same Confucian funeral, the funeral can be seen in the Confucian and the Taoist funeral the process of building a huge impact. However, Taoism and Confucianism is not copying the funeral, Confucian funeral in order to express and vent their lost loved ones great sorrow and suffering of the Taoist religion, no ceremony is unique for its purposes, and therefore the construction of Taoist funeral Taoist ritual is to make life after death, immortality soaring. Two different purposes and ideas, resulting in the funeral ceremony, the two sides in terms of the form shown is different. In addition, this article from the "dutiful son" and "mourning for the dead teacher," the two aspects of micro-analysis of the different parties in order to better understand the unique content Taoist funeral rites.