How to innovatively inherit Chinese ritual culture

Only through a comprehensive and in-depth understanding of the history of Chinese civilization can we more effectively promote the creative transformation and innovative development of the excellent traditional Chinese culture, more powerfully promote the construction of socialist culture with Chinese characteristics, and build the modern civilization of the Chinese nation.

Family rituals, i.e., family or clan rituals, are a complete family ritual system consisting of the five rites of passage, coronation, wedding, funeral and sacrificial rites. The long history of Chinese family etiquette culture has accumulated the historical wisdom of the Chinese people for the civilization of the family and the civilization of social governance, and the social structure of the family and the country also makes our ancestors pay special attention to the construction of family etiquette.

Gaining a deep understanding of the status and function of traditional family ritual culture and promoting the creative transformation and innovative development of the excellent traditional family ritual culture will undoubtedly contribute to the construction of a modern civilization for the Chinese nation. As an important institutional design and spiritual bond to maintain the political and social pattern of "great unification" in ancient China, the historical origin of the ritual culture has always been controversial.

Traditional Ritual Culture

The more representative viewpoints include those of primitive social sacrifices, primitive social customs and habits, primitive etiquette, human feelings and history, and production and life. The synthesis of the *** knowledge, sacrifices, customs, division of labor and other primitive social family production and life scenes should be the reality of the birth of the rites and music culture basis.

Family rituals are the rituals within the family or clan, which adjust the ethical relations among family members by rituals, etiquette, etiquette system, etiquette, etiquette and religion, maintain the filial piety and respect for the elders, and the daily life of the family family, cultivate the rich and sincere feelings of Chinese people for the family and country and the sense of gratitude to the end of the life of the ancestors, and maintain the stability and development of the family life of the traditional society.