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The previous article, "Sitting in the Right Position (I)", reviews the history of sitting in the right position; in this article, the history of "sitting in the right position" is restored to its place in the local Chinese culture, i.e., the ritual of sitting in the right position. This article restores the position of "sitting" in Chinese indigenous culture, i.e., the rite of sitting.

Hua Xia is a civilized country, and the important symbol that distinguishes it from the barbarians and the diaspora is the "ritual".

"A parrot can speak without leaving the birds; an orangutan can speak without leaving the beasts. The man who has no etiquette, even though he can speak, is not also a beast of prey? The only beasts are not polite, so the father and son gathered doe. Therefore, the saints made, for the rites to teach people, so that people have the rites, know that they are different from the beasts."

Western women lift up their blouses to allow the men around them to touch them at will, which is the real version of the so-called "doe". Western countries are trying to instill in China this kind of so-called "civilization": this is advanced and civilized, and it represents freedom and human rights. ......

Every child of China who has been educated in traditional Chinese culture will be able to see this animalistic nature. The "civilization" will be scoffed at. But in those dark corners infiltrated by Western forces and their buyers' lackeys, have some of the country's people been brainwashed into mistaking "doe" for freedom and recognizing themselves as beasts for glory?

When this "hundred years of great change", the Western anti-China forces and their dogs, pervasive, to discredit my Chinese civilization, the more I need to carry forward the Chinese culture of the children of China, inherited the Chinese Way. It is a matter of racial continuity, civilization transfer, this is a big matter, can not be ignored.

The ritual of sitting, not only on their own physical temperament cultivation, but also to cultivate the heart of the method of cultivating the right to learn the meaning of the Taoist tradition. Ancient people talk about "positive" in everything, positive thoughts, positive behavior, standing upright, acting upright, the law of heaven and earth, raising the righteousness of the spirit. Sitting upright is an important cultivation for oneself; sitting upright is an appropriate expression for others. The upright Anshu, dignified and dignified, self-respect and self-love, not inferior, showing the Chinese scholar in the world of rigor and righteousness. On the contrary, the front side of the barbarians and Di Di "doe" of the madness and evil, easy? Not easy? The same? Different? The right and wrong, the high and the low are immediately judged.

Hua Xia and barbarians should be differentiated, the so-called summer to Yi Yi is also. In the Spring and Autumn Dew? Bamboo Grove, Dong Zhongshu said: "The Spring and Autumn Annals of the common speech also, not barbarians and give China as a gift". This distinction is the high view of Chinese culture, and its standard is "etiquette", which can also be said to be the high point and benchmark of human civilization. In the early years of the Western Han Dynasty, when the barbaric behavior of the Xiongnu Bolden monarch angered Gaozu and Lu Hou, Minister Ji Bu said, "The barbarians are like animals, and their good words are not enough to please them, and their bad words are not enough to anger them. This is precisely the soul of the cultural high position based on the questioning, based on the cultural realm of the descending blow.

China is a state of etiquette, etiquette, etiquette is the Chinese children should be virtues. Ancient gentlemen practiced six arts, etiquette, music, archery, imperial, books and mathematics. Among the six arts, etiquette is at the top of the list; and at the beginning of etiquette, sitting is still.

China is a state of etiquette, sitting is the foundation of Chinese etiquette. The ancients believed that: "Therefore, the beginning of the etiquette of the correct, so that there can be the correctness of the heart". By the etiquette of the right to the heart of the right formation, there is a process from the surface to the inside. After the cultivation, when one sits upright, one's body shape will reflect the cultivation from the inside out and from the inside in. Etiquette is used to regulate speech and behavior, the ancients did not act in accordance with etiquette. As the saying goes, "Standing phase, sitting phase"; "standing like a pine, sitting like a bell, lying like a bow", can be regarded as the inheritance of the ancient rituals in today's.

This way, we can see that the people of the United States are not the same as the people of the United States.

How can this ritual of sitting through history be passed on to the next generation?

The Analects of Confucius said, "Learning from time to time, is not also said." Xie's note: "When learning, there is no time to not learn. Sitting like a corpse, sitting when practicing also; standing like Qi, standing when practicing also." Xie's name is Liangzuo, the word is obvious, the Northern Song Dynasty Shouchun Shangcai (present-day Henan Shangcai) people. Xie studied under Roy Cheng and Cheng Yi, creating the Shangcai school and laying the foundation of psychology, the originator of the Hunan school of thought, one of the four gentlemen of the Cheng family, known as Mr. Shangcai. Xie's bachelor's degree, author of the "Analects of Confucius" in the world, from the Temple of Confucius. Such a great man, for the interpretation of the sitting, to this day, it is still worthwhile for us to savor the deep meaning.

Ming Dynasty, "Liu Zhongding Gong see guests, talk about the past, the body without interjection, shoulders and back straight, body not less mobile, to the hands and feet also do not move". This kind of majesty, not since the childhood cultivated sitting kung fu, not abide by the etiquette of the righteousness, it is difficult to do out of date does not move. The "time" here refers to an hour. Mr. Liu Yi, the first master, taught the author the rules of sitting and standing, practice every "big time for the limit", big time is an hour, equal to two hours. Tormenting the muscles and bones, both physical and mental training, practitioners of both internal and external cultivation, but also a spiritual sublimation.

Seemingly simple to sit, need to learn to become. Generations of Chinese children, the beginning of learning, that is, practice sitting. It is like the first level of training for new recruits, is to practice uprightness. All the civil affairs and military preparations, all the Meng learning to raise positive in this also.

The long ritual of sitting down has infused all aspects of Chinese culture. The ancient people sat on the ground, and the term "sitting" came into being. In this context, modern Chinese words, such as: chairman, chief, feast, banquet, banquet, attendance, entry, departure, absence, attendance, a seat, a place, a full house, and so on, are all from the ancient sitting, that is, the rite of sitting.

Take the word "chairman" as an example. In the above painting by Yan Liben in the Tang Dynasty, the chairman of the sitting for Confucius. The term "chairman", as opposed to "second" or "deputy" chairman, is derived from the word "xi xi" (异席).

The term "different seats" refers to the ancient practice of seating four people at a table, and if there was a fifth person seated, the elder should be allowed to sit at another table. This is what is written in the Book of Rites? Qu Li" recorded in the "group of five people, then the elders must be different seat." In this way, among the two or more seats, there was a chairman and a second chairman. With the polishing of the years, the word "chairman" gradually evolved and derived metaphysical symbolism.

The Analects? Yong also" Confucius said, "Yong also, can make the south face." Yong, that is, Ran Yong, the word Zhong Gong, Lu Tao (now Dingtao, Shandong Province) people, and brother Ran Keng, brother Ran seek are division service Confucius. South face, that is, the body sits in the north and faces south. In ancient times, sitting in the north and facing the south was the honor, where the son of heaven, the vassals, the ministers and feudal lords sat in the hall to listen to politics, all facing south. This is also the honorary position of sitting in the front seat.

Sitting at the table has the meaning of honoring oneself and respecting the other. For example, in the previous article, "Sitting in the Right Place (I)," we have the example of sitting with one's head in one's hands. During the Western Han Dynasty, Dr. Song Zhong and Dr. Jia Yi, who once listened to the diviner Sima Jizhu speak on divination, stood in awe, so they "hunted for tassels and sat upright", i.e., they made up their crowns and belts, and sat upright to show their admiration.

The ancients spoke of etiquette, sitting with a sitting phase, even if they usually sit idle, but also sit upright to hold the road. Historical records of the Three Kingdoms period of Wei's Guanning, fifty years often sitting on a wooden couch, sitting upright, never Kei, so that the knee place are grinding out deep pits. Tao Kan of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, "the work of the leisure, all day long convergence of the knees and sit". Later, even with a high seat, but also to sit upright for respect. Sima Guang, Song Dynasty, weekdays, "Yanju, sitting in the right color".

Skip, is not the etiquette of the contemptuous move, but also to the same people sitting disrespect. The Book of Rites? The "Rites of Passage" says: "Sit without a skip". For women, this kind of sitting is especially forbidden.

The ancients also had a lot to say about seating and seating. For example, "the seat is not sitting", that is, when setting up the seat, the four sides of the seat and the four sides of the room parallel and not oblique, otherwise it should not be sitting. Xie's note: "The saint's heart in the right. Therefore, in the position of the incorrect person, although small, not in." Sit upright, not only reflects the sitter's dignity, etiquette, but also a subtle education of righteousness. As the saying goes, "The heart is at ease in the right place." Historically, Mencius' mother paid great attention to these details. It is said that in order for the unborn Mencius to be aware of etiquette and to be correctly influenced by etiquette, she practiced fetal education by "not sitting on an improper seat" when she was pregnant. On the contrary, some mothers-to-be now, in and out of the casino and even rock concerts, manic sound, dance shape, on the fetus in the future in the end how the impact, it is thought.

"To do nothing, to teach without words." Sage of the norms of sitting on the rite of passage, outside the above, the author according to the "Records of Rites" and other ancient texts, slightly organized.