The Book of Rites was compiled by Dai Sheng, a ritual scholar in the Western Han Dynasty.
The Book of Rites is an important book of laws and regulations in ancient China and one of the Confucian classics. The book was compiled by Dai Sheng in the Western Han Dynasty, compiling all kinds of etiquette works before Qin and Han Dynasties, with 49 articles. The Book of Rites is one of the "Three Rites", one of the "Five Classics" and one of the "Thirteen Classics". Since Zheng Xuan's annotation in the Eastern Han Dynasty, the status of The Book of Rites has been rising day by day, and it was honored as "Jing" in the Tang Dynasty. After the Song Dynasty, it ranked first among the "Three Rites".
Overall introduction
The Book of Rites was originally forty-six, starting with Quli and ending with Four Systems of Mourning. However, because Quli, Tan Gong and Miscellaneous Notes are too long, most versions divide them into upper and lower chapters, so there are forty-nine chapters.
remember the etiquette clauses to make up for what other books don't have, such as Quli, Tan Gong, Yuzao, Notes on Mourning, Biography, Shaoyi, Miscellaneous Notes, Notes on Mourning, Rushing to Mourning, Throwing Pots, etc.