Etiquette and China Traditional Culture Paper! ! !

China ancient etiquette has a long history and is an important part of China traditional culture. Although it has undergone some changes or improvements in its historical evolution, it has always had a far-reaching impact on China's traditional culture and national life. As a traditional cultural style, etiquette has both positive and negative effects on society. We should keep a clear understanding of this, discard its dross and make it play an active role in the construction of socialist spiritual civilization.

In ancient China, it was once known as "the country of etiquette". As early as the Yin and Zhou Dynasties more than 3,000 years ago, Duke Zhou inspected the ritual and music system. Later, with the advocacy and improvement of Confucius and others, ritual and music civilization became the core of Confucian culture. After the Western Han Dynasty, the ancient books on rites and music culture, such as Yili, Zhou Li and Li Ji, were successively listed as scholars and became the required books for ancient scholars. Etiquette is one of the important components of "ceremony".

Among the six traditional arts in China, the word "ceremony" is the first, which fully embodies the tradition that China people attach importance to etiquette. There is a story in The Analects of Confucius. Confucius warned his son Kong Li: "If you don't learn etiquette, you can't stand." It means: you can't stand on your feet without learning manners. The famous "Saint Amethyst" pointed out that children should be familiar with all kinds of etiquette on different occasions and learn etiquette from an early age. In some famous "ancient precepts", "family precepts" and "school rules" in history, there are also a lot of etiquette norms about daily food, clothing, housing and transportation, and dealing with people.

Communication between people, how to address each other, how to stand in each other's position, how to say hello and so on. Even when you eat, you should show your self-cultivation when you raise your hand. This is called food ceremony. Behavior conforms to etiquette, which is a manifestation of self-cultivation, and vice versa.

Nowadays, many people ignore the study of the basic etiquette norms that people should know. People regard those who are informal as "chic"; Think of people who wear strange clothes and swear words as "individualistic", sitting without sitting, standing without standing, eating without eating, dressed untidily, not even greeting their elders, not even thanking others, arrogant and arbitrary in public places, all of which are manifestations of lack of self-cultivation.

In fact, politeness, appearance and demeanor are important aspects of a person's cultural quality and accomplishment. The Book of Rites holds that the fundamental difference between human beings and animals is not the existence of language, but ritual, which is the difference between civilization and barbarism.

Shamefully, South Korea and Japan have inherited some etiquette norms, and people pay more attention to expressing respect with elegant language and manners, while their birthplace, China, has been abandoned as the so-called "four old" and "feudal etiquette".