The Study Of Ritual Thought In The Pre-qin Period

"Ceremony" in ancient times.The original form of ritual,form and perfect in the Western Zhou dynasty.The study of ritual,which originated from Confucius,was more than Confucianism,which flourished in the spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period.The spring and Autumn period,both by disintegration period,and the rite appears and tries to reconstruct various rites period.The formation of the ceremony should be traced back to the primitive society of the sacrificial ceremony,the performance of the ancestors or God of worship.With the continuous development of society,the ritual is introduced into the patriarchal system,become a kind of behavior rules,to differentiate the noble in distance.Li gradually expanded from the inside of the patriarchal clan system to all aspects of the political life of the country,forming a more strict and distinct social hierarchy.In the pre Qin period,it was developed as the core political thought of safeguarding the interests of the ruling class.At the same time,it became a kind of ideology to regulate the social order and to inherit the social civilization.The pre Qin period,Li gradually affected the development of social life,experience in the integration and development of the Duke of Zhou,Confucius and Xunzi and other thinkers,and gradually formed a"development pattern of propriety,benevolence,law",basically established the direction of development China traditional ritual,the core and the influence has gradually been found.Become a beacon to guide social civilization development.This paper is based on the pre Qin period of development of rite system,focuses on the thought of looking forward,Confucius and Xunzi thought of rites ritual thought inherent logical relation.Through a series of historical records,mainly about the development of the pre Qin period of the ritual of Western Zhou Dynasty,Zhou Gong for reconstruction of the patriarchal system of rites,gives the connotation of virtue and punishment in which opens later ritual theory to the development of ethical and legal norms of the road,but because of Zhou itself development in the early comparison of chaos.After the spring and Autumn period of the baptism of Confucius to tease out the falling of ceremony,relationship between rite and benevolence,the rite began to enrich the moral content,to show the moral strength for future generations.Then the influence of the Warring States period,Xunzi re examines the ceremony for the society at that time,the method of factors into the ceremony,rite and enrich the contents of rule of law,thus forming the "fusion development of propriety,benevolence," three pattern.In the course of the evolution of ritual studies,the development of Zhou Li,Confucius’s thought of rites and the thought of Xunzi’s ritual presents the inherent requirement of the continuous improvement of norms,and is suitable for the continuous development of society.Since then,the rule of propriety,benevolence and law has been followed and adopted by the past dynasties,and the development of ritual studies has had a profound influence on Chinese ancient society.Apart from the historical imprint,the spirit of the development of pre Qin ritual and its understanding of legal morality have reference value for the construction of harmonious society.This paper is divided into five chapters.The first chapter is the introduction,clarifies the research significance of this paper,focusing on the Duke of Zhou,Confucius and Xunzi’s thought of rites as the emphasis of the pre Qin period.The second chapter studies the development of Zhou’s thought as the embryonic form of ritual study.Mainly expounds the development of looking forward thinking of the defects of social characteristics,Zhou Zhou Li on the development and existing.The third chapter studies the Confucianism thought of Confucius as the ritual system of the development process,connotation and significance mainly from the perspective of the social background to study Kong Ziren and Li development,Zhou Confucius;the fourth chapter studies the Confucianism thought of Xunzi as the ritual of the culmination of the development process.The main study of Xunzi at the time of the social environment,how to integrate the.ritual and law,innovation in line with the requirements of the development of the ceremony.The fifth chapter is the conclusion,which is based on the inevitability of the development of rite in the pre Qin period.And then expounds the realistic significance and contemporary value of the development of ritual thought in the pre Qin period.