The Book of Rites is an important anthology of laws and regulations in ancient China.
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.
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".
The knowledge and ideology of ancient cultural history recorded in The Book of Rites have an important influence on the inheritance of Confucian culture, contemporary cultural education and moral education, and the construction of a harmonious socialist society.
on February 3, 219, the preliminary interpretation of bamboo slips unearthed from Liu He's tomb was completed, and they found several lost or earlier versions of ancient books, including Confucian classics such as The Book of Rites, which is of great academic value for studying the spread and evolution of Confucianism and its classics.
There are more than 5,2 bamboo slips unearthed from the tomb of Hai Yin Hou. After reading them, experts found that the most important part is Confucian classics and their instructions, including the Book of Rites.