| Rural Drinking Ritual began in the Zhou Dynasty and lasted for three thousand years,with strong vitality.This article selects the rural drinking ritual as the research object,based on perspective of the relationship between emotion and reason,through interpreting the sentiment and rationality in the rural drinking ritual,exploring the value and significance of it.The full text is divided into five chapters.The first chapter is a testament of Rural Drinking Ritual.Introduce the origin and development of rural drinking rituals,and sort out the specific ritual process of rural drinking rituals.The rural drinking ritual began in the Zhou Dynasty,and it was a way of gathering for the townspeople at first.Later,it was given content such as honor and virtuous,respecting the elderly,and transforming from a clan society’s custom to a ceremonial activity with enlightening significance.Based on Yi Li Rural Drinking Ritual,summarized as greet the guest,offer wine to guests,play music to guests,toast each other,drinking and music unlimited,send guests and thanks to give seven parts.The second chapter is the emotion of Rural Drinking Ritual,mainly reveal the emotional basis of the rural drinking ritual.Rural drinking ritual is an etiquette system that includes four levels of nature,family,society,and politics.This article considers the natural level to be emotion between heaven and earth,the family level is love of filial piety,the society level is emotion of humility,the political level is emotion of sincere respect.The third chapter is the reason of Rural Drinking Ritual.This reason is the rule of emotion,and it is the principle that makes the emotion of the drinking ritual in the village reasonable.This article summarizes it into four levels: respect,revere,moral obligation and harmony.The civilizing function of rural drinking ritual is based on the transcendence of respect to the heaven and earth,starting from the revere of personal intrinsic virtue,expanding to the social level of moral obligation,and then realizing the political level of harmony.The four levels are not independent and unrelated,they are a gradual and consistent process from the inside to the outside.The fourth chapter is the unity of emotion and reason in Rural Drinking Ritual.This chapter puts theory into practice.Implement the above-explained principle of the unity of emotion and reason in the rural drinking ritual in the specific etiquette.From emotion to reason,we will finally reach the state of doing what one wants and not overstepping the rules.The fifth chapter is the modern enlightenment of the unity of emotion and reason in Rural Drinking Ritual’.This chapter proposes suggestions for banquet activities such as the current rural drinking rituals based on the principles of rural drinking ritual.The banquet activities should show the love of filial piety,emotion of humility and emotion of sincere respect.To become a model of education that cultivates ideal personality and promotes public order and good customs. |