Ancient Chinese etiquette revelation and help

In ancient China, there were five rituals, namely, auspicious rituals for sacrifices, auspicious rituals for crowns and marriages, auspicious rituals for guests, auspicious rituals for military affairs, and auspicious rituals for funerals and burials. Folklore circles believe that rituals include four kinds of life rituals: birth, crown, marriage and funeral. In fact, rituals can be divided into two categories: political and life.　Political rituals include sacrifices to heaven, earth, temples and ancestral temples, sacrifices to ancestors and saints, honoring teachers, drinking rituals, meeting rituals, military rituals, and so on. The origin of life rituals, according to Xunzi's statement, there are "three books" that is, "the birth of heaven and earth," "the ancestor of the class of this," "the ruler of the division of this ". Among the rituals, funeral rites are the earliest. Funeral rites in the dead is to appease their ghosts, in the living has become a division of elders and children, filial piety and human rituals.　In the process of establishing and implementing rituals, the Chinese patriarchal system (see Chinese Patriarchal Law) was born. The essence of rituals is the way to rule people, which is a derivative of the belief in ghosts and gods. It is believed that all things are manipulated by invisible ghosts and gods, and that the performance of rituals is a way of pleasing the ghosts and gods for good fortune. Therefore, etiquette originated from the belief in ghosts and gods, and it is also a special form of manifestation of the belief in ghosts and gods.　The emergence of the "Three Rites" (Yi Li, Li Ji and Zhou Li) marked the mature stage of the development of etiquette. During the Song Dynasty, rituals were integrated with feudal ethical and moral sermons, i.e., rituals were mixed with rites and became one of the powerful tools for the implementation of rites. Rites were performed in the service of moral persuasion, and red tape was used to the best of its ability.　To modern times, etiquette has been truly reformed, both the rituals of the country's political life and the people's life etiquette are changed into a new content without ghosts and gods, thus becoming a modern civilized etiquette.