1. The ceremony of marriage is to bind the love between two different surnames families in order to offer a sacrifice in an ancestral temple and produce a male heir to continue the line of the family. So a junzi attached importance to such a ceremony of m...[继续阅读]

    1. In the period of mourning for Gongyi Zhongzi, Tan Gong, a friend of Gongyi Zhongzi, went to offer his condolences with a piece of white cloth on his head. Before his death, Zhongzi had abandoned his grandson and appointed one of his sons by his concubi...[继续阅读]

    1. What is given to the people by heaven is called nature. Anyone that follows the nature is called the road. The way how to repair and renovate the road is called instruction. The road may not be left by the people for a minute. If it is left, it would n...[继续阅读]

    1. Man is called man for his knowing of ceremony and righteousness. Ceremony is to regulate ones appearance, proper expression and polite speech. When ones appearance is corrected, his expression is proper and his speech is polite, his ceremony and righte...[继续阅读]

    1. Why do they wear the three years mourning? It is a ceremony making the human feelings suitable in order to show the social relations between kinsmen and non-kinsmen, near kinsmen and distance, the noble and the mean. Increase and decrease may not be ta...[继续阅读]

    Ⅰ In the first month of a year1. In the first month of a year in Zhous calendar, the sun moves to the position that shows the coming of spring. At dusk there are seven stars appearing in the middle sky in the south, and at dawn the star of Tail appears in...[继续阅读]

    1. There is no way to administer the people more urgent than the ceremony. Among the five ceremonies, the sacrificial ceremony is the most important. The ceremony of offering a sacrifice is not shown outside, but from ones inner mind. He offers sacrificia...[继续阅读]

    1. Kong Qiu said,“To enter a state you will find this states way to enlighten the people by education. If the people are gentle and honest, it is benefited from Shijing; if they are sensible and know history, it is benefited from Shangshu; optimistic, ami...[继续阅读]

    1. Why do they wear black head bands in the mourning for parents? The reason is as follows. The fiber of hemp has an appearance as fearful as mans in his distress. So the fearful appearance is shown from the inner sadness. He who wears the sackcloth for h...[继续阅读]

    1. The official salary and rank framed by the royal house were: duke, marquis, count, viscount and baron. They are the called five gradations of rank. In the prince-states, there are ministers[high officials], lower officials, high officers, middle office...[继续阅读]