The Ttudy About Anti-ritual Of The State Of Lu In The Spring And Autumn Period

As it reported,the ritual of Zhou was found by Zhou Gong, when thewestern Zhou Dynasty was established. After the king of Zhou migrated towardto the eastern area, during the special times which called the Spring and Autumnperiod in ancient China, the ritual of Zhou contunutedly affected people’sbehavior, ritual became a main standrad, which would judge a person’sbehavior,even a country’s gain or loss. In the pre-Qin times, the best classicsbook which recorded and reflected ritual would be Zuo Zhuan.This bookrecorded a lot about the ritual of historical facts. It can be seen that ritualeffected on people from all aspects of people’s life at that time,and it can be seenthe importance of ritual in the Spring and Autumn period from the book of ZuoZhuan. But later descendants always used “Falling of Ritual”to describe thisperiod. The main reason was that the phenomenons of anti-ritual in the Springand Autumn Period were endless stream, such as overstepping and ritual chaos.So with the historical facts of anti-ritual phenomenons which were recorded bythe book of Zuo Zhuan, we can see the collapse of ritual is a continuous andgradual process in the Spring and Autumn Period,and by this way we can getfurther understanding of customs and social life in the Spring and AutumnPeriod.