What was the first part of the ancient opening ceremony?

In ancient times, the first part of the opening ceremony was to dress up.

The first step of the ancient opening ceremony was "dressing up". The ancients said, "Dress well first, then be sensible." It can be seen that the ancients paid great attention to the cleanliness of students' instruments. Dressed up, the children lined up in front of the school under the guidance of the teacher. After being polite for a while, I entered the school under the guidance of Teacher Wang. This is the second link of the school, namely the entrance hall.

The fourth link is clean hands. Students put their hands in the basin, wash them once, and then dry them. The moral of washing hands is to clean hands and heart, to remove impurities and store essence, and hope that there will be no distractions in future study. After washing your hands, it is the last procedure, the cinnabar seven system. Teacher Wang holds a brush dipped in cinnabar, points a red dot on the students' eyebrows and enlightens them with cinnabar. Zhusha Dot mole takes the meaning of "wisdom" from the old saying, which means to open wisdom, have bright eyes and bright mind, and hope that students can succeed in their studies in the future.

The significance of the opening ceremony:

Every opening ceremony is a symbolic world. Through the opening ceremony, every family from all directions will return to the children on campus again to know, feel and appreciate this symbolic world. In essence, the opening ceremony is a kind of etiquette culture. The opening ceremony is more and more grand and ordinary, which means the rise and prosperity of etiquette culture. The form of traditional culture and the content of modern education naturally come together.

China is a country of etiquette, which was once a country with a prosperous etiquette culture. There is also a saying in ancient books that "etiquette is 300 and dignity is 3000". In the long history of thousands of years, from political life to daily life, etiquette culture is pervasive. It provides a set of political, social and people's daily life order through a set of cultural symbols.