China is an ancient civilization, a state of etiquetteChina's traditional etiquette and institutions were mainly formed during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periodsCorrect?

01. Initial Development of Rituals

Before the Xia Dynasty (before the 21st century BC), the earliest form of rituals was the very first religious activities - sacrifices to the ancestors of heaven, earth, ghosts and gods. The rituals of this period were still relatively simple and did not form a system.

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02 . The formation of rituals

By the Xia, Shang and Western Zhou (21st century BC ~ 771 BC), mankind has entered the era of slave society, the ruling class in order to consolidate their position, the development of religious rituals into rituals, the rituals of this period are mandatory, and respect for the inferiority and superiority of the distinction between the two, rituals were branded with the class.

During this period, China developed for the first time a more complete state ritual and system. Ancient ceremonial texts were also written in this period, such as the Zhou Dynasty's "Zhouli", "Rites of Passage" and "Records of Rites", which are China's earliest monographs on etiquette. In the history of more than 2,000 years after the Han Dynasty, they have been the classic works of the state to formulate the etiquette system, known as the ritual scriptures.

The "Five Rites" in the Zhou Rites are a set of ritual norms and standards of behavior that cover all aspects of social life. The five rites are the auspicious rites for sacrifices, the auspicious rites for crowns and marriages, the auspicious rites for guests, the auspicious rites for military travel, and the auspicious rites for funerals and burials.