What are the "three rites" in China's ancient books?

Zhou Li, Yi Li and Li Ji are collectively called the Three Rites.

The Three Rites recorded and preserved many rites of the week, among which the Rites of the Week emphasized the political system. "Yili" emphasizes the code of conduct; The Book of Rites emphasizes the explanation and exposition of specific etiquette.

The sum total of various etiquette systems involved in this "three rites" is the whole content of "rites". "Three Rites" are the three Confucian classics of China's ancient political system and the blueprint and encyclopedia of China's ancient etiquette system.

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Zhou Li, formerly known as Zhou Guan, was called Zhou Li by Liu Xin at the end of the Western Han Dynasty. The Legend of Zhou Li was written by Zhou Gongdan and regarded as a work of the Warring States Period. The word "Zhou" means either "the Western Zhou Dynasty" or "the official of the Sunday".

Zhou Li is divided into six chapters: celestial officials, local officials, spring officials, summer officials, Qiu Guan officials and winter officials. The six officials symbolize the harmony between heaven and earth and embody the idea of "ruling heaven by the people". In the Han Dynasty, Dong Guanzhang was dead, and Confucian scholars in the Han Dynasty made up for it by taking an examination of Gong Ji. Zhou Li is rich in content, mainly about various famous things, laws and regulations.

Yili, also known as Book of Rites or Shi Li, was called Yili in Jin Dynasty. It is said that The Book of Rites was written by Duke Zhou or Confucius, and people around you think it is a compilation of some rites during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and the book should have been written in the early and middle period of the Warring States Period. The so-called "rites" in the Five Classics of the Pre-Qin and Western Han Dynasties all refer to rites. Yili is divided into seventeen articles, such as Official Ceremony and Wedding Ceremony, which describes the main etiquette of ancient aristocratic life in detail.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia _ Three Gifts