What is the historical background of rites and music culture in Zhou Dynasty?

The system of rites and music is a cultural system established in the Zhou Dynasty to protect the feudal system. After Zhou Wuwang destroyed the business, in order to consolidate his rule and establish a stable political system, the rulers of the Western Zhou Dynasty supported the world with four systems: feudal system (enfeoffment system), Jing Tian system, patriarchal clan system and ritual system.

The Zhou Dynasty standardized the status of nobles through the system of rites and music, requiring nobles to conform to their own status in food, clothing, housing and transportation, and there should be obvious differences between the noble and the humble. Even for nobles of different classes, how to call "death" is different.

Etiquette had a clue as early as the Xia Dynasty. By the time of theocracy in Shang Dynasty, etiquette and law had been consolidated in faith. Duke Zhou only summed up the previous experience, perfected the etiquette system and made it applicable to the patriarchal clan system.

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At the beginning of the founding of the Western Zhou Dynasty, Duke Zhou paid tribute and made merry, which laid the foundation of China's traditional culture. This system was established with morality as the core, which was praised by later generations, thus establishing the dominant position of morality in the concept of governing the country and having a far-reaching impact on the development direction of China's history.

During the Spring and Autumn Period, due to various reasons, this system collapsed and the world was in chaos, which was called "the ceremony collapsed and the music was bad" in history. Nobles fought for power and interests, so there has been a saying since ancient times that "the Spring and Autumn War is meaningless". Confucius yearned for the ceremony of the Duke of Zhou, which was not only his dissatisfaction with the troubled times in the Spring and Autumn Period, but also his yearning for the moral etiquette system in the Western Zhou Dynasty.

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