What is etiquette culture?

Rites and music civilization is an important part of ancient civilization in China. As early as the Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties, ancient sages formed a fairly perfect system of rites and music through the system of rites and music, and promoted it to the moral and ethical education of maintaining the harmonious social order of mankind. Rites and music complement each other and form a complete and orderly social, political and cultural system. Rites and music civilization has had a great and far-reaching impact on the development history of Chinese civilization for thousands of years, and it still has its strong vitality.

Rites of the Western Zhou Dynasty, used in the Western Zhou Dynasty, are social laws and ethics. As a legal system, it is the embodiment of the social and political system, and it is the etiquette in maintaining the superstructure and the corresponding interpersonal communication. "Interpretation of Names" said: "Rites are also physical. The body of the word is also. " "Li Qi" said: "Faith is the foundation of ceremony; Righteousness and reason, the text of ceremony is also. No foundation, no words. " Politeness is the basis of one's behavior. It is also a standard for people to be human. Therefore, the Analects of Confucius said, "If you don't learn etiquette, you will have nothing to stand for.

The music of the Western Zhou Dynasty, in the Western Zhou Dynasty, takes five tones and eight tones as music, and the five tones are scales, that is, palace, Shang, horn, sign and feather. Eight tones are the classification of instrumental music, that is, Yi, Sheng, Drum, Pipe, String, Qing, Bell, Bang and so on.

Rites and music civilization has experienced the evolution of the past dynasties, and the specific content has changed, but the theme remains unchanged. It is of practical significance for China and the world to abandon the distinction between nobility and inferiority in the old ceremony and absorb the concept of order and harmony in the ceremony and music civilization.