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A Study On The Moral Value Of Pre - Qin Confucian Ritual Culture

Posted on:2016-08-16Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y Z HanFull Text:PDF
GTID:1106330470450073Subject:Ideological and political education
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As the core category of Chinese traditional cultural values, ritual and musicregulated and guided the ancient Chinese people’s political life, social life andspiritual life by the unique enlightenment function for thousands of years. The ritesand music were closely related to form the system of ritual and music and the uniquecultural tradition. They made the traditional Chinese society system and inner spirituallife fuse together, becoming the important symbol of Chinese culture. Theritual-music culture cultivated the rational spirit, the spirit of harmony, humanity spiritand aesthetic interest of the Chinese people. Today, the Paper digs the reasonablefactors of pre-Qin Confucian ritual-music culture with modern consciousness, to carryforward the Chinese nation’s tradition on emphasis on ritual and music, and constructthe etiquette norms and aesthetic taste in keeping with modern life, building in linewith the socialist ethics, moral norms and manners of modern humane spirit. It isimportant to improve the relationship between the people and people, people andsociety, man and nature. It has important value in building a socialist harmonioussociety. Therefore, based on the analysis of moral value of the pre-Qin Confucianritual-music culture, according to the practice of socialism China and the needs of thetimes, the Paper discusses the realization of the moral value of pre-Qin Confucianritual-music culture in Contemporary, which has important theoretical value andpractical significance.Pre-Qin Confucian ritual-music culture refers to the thought of Confucianmasters on political, social and life etc. These ideas expressed by Confucius, Mencius,Xunzi and other Confucian masters, cover the values, ethics, morality, idealpersonality, behavior guidelines and other criteria. They emphasize the ritual andmusic, promote the harmony of various strata of the society. As a kind of spirit culture,Pre-Qin Confucian ritual-music culture mainly reflects the Chinese people’s ways ofthinking, value orientation, ethical concepts, psychology, psychological status, idealpersonality, aesthetic taste, and so on. This culture regulates and controls people’sbehavior with ceremony, probations the soul with music, encourages people toacknowledge and act according to norms of propriety consciously. So it can guidepeople to harmoniously handle the relationships between people, between human andsociety, between human and nature, and thus to form a stable social order. Therefore,the pre-Qin Confucian ritual-music culture is a typical culture of moral education,which contains rich and valuable resources of moral education. It has impactedChinese on the ethical attitudes and behavior descendants extensively and deeply, so itis valuable and important to strengthen moral education today.This Paper firstly analyzes the origin, content and nature of the Pre-Qin Confucian ritual-music culture, which derived from the primitive society ritual-musiccustoms. Based on the religious ritual-music in the Xia and Shang period and theritual system in Xizhou Dynasties, Confucius critically inherited and created a cultureof Confucian ritual music culture. With the inheritance and development by Menciusand other Confucian masters, Confucian ritual-music thought was unique, splendidand profound in the Double Hundred Campaign during the Spring and Autumn Period.Pre-Qin Confucian ritual-music culture includes ritual music thoughts and practices ofConfucius, Mencius and other Confucian masters, it mainly reflects the essence ofdistinguish, golden mean, harmony, match.Based on the above analysis, this paper elucidates the moral resources inherentin the Pre-Qin Confucian ritual-music culture, which include the moral educationsystem, advanced moral spirit, unique moral characteristics. The moral systemadvocates the unity of human and the heaven as the moral philosophy, the unity of theperfect personality and the social order goals; the combination of the specific moralcontents with ritual music activities as the moral ways; the moral spirits includebenevolent spirit, harmony spirit, respectful spirit, humility spirit and rational spirit;the moral characteristics means that the unity of heaven and humanity, the unity of theemotion and rationality, the unity of spiritual cultivation and external training, theunity of autonomy and heteronomy.After descriptions the moral values of the ritual culture and the music cultureseparately, this paper comments on the moral values of the pre-Qin Confucianritual-music culture, then analyzes the causes why the pre-Qin ritual-music Culturecan achieve its moral values. Based on the analysis of the contents of the pre-QinConfucian ritual-music culture, the paper summarizes the moral values of the pre-QinConfucian ritual-music culture from the following aspects: for individuals to awarethe ethics, attitude and methods of doing things, self-cultivation, settlement of life,and so on; for relationships to eliminate conflicts, to live in harmony, and regulate theinterpersonal behavior and ways; for the community to purify the atmosphere, totransform social traditions, to form harmonious order, etc. The causes of the pre-QinConfucian Culture of moral values to achieve that: ritual music reasonable content,ritual music and morality have identity, focusing on practical ways to develop thedoctrine, ritual music punishment for the use of political mutual. These valuesachieved lie on its reasonable ritual-music contents, the identity of ritual music systemand the morality, focusing on practical ways to develop the doctrine, and theinteraction between the ritual-music system and the penalty politics. Even so, itsimpact should be carried out from both the positive and negative aspects objectively.Positive impact on the Chinese people mainly as follows: establishing the self-cultivation idea, formation of the modest character, foundation for the fine tradition ofritual-music moral education, cultivation the pursuit of moral consciousness. Negative impact as follows: overemphasis class differences, maintaining hierarchy, ingrainingthe class differences; overemphasis on the social order, repressing individualsubjectivity personality.Finally, the paper focuses on how to realize the moral values of Pre-QinConfucian ritual-music culture in the current society. After analyzing the moral valuesand the necessity to inherit the pre-Qin Confucian ritual-music culture today, thepaper discusses the main goals to implement ritual-music practice from the followingaspects: to promote physical and mental harmony of contemporary people, to promoteharmony of contemporary interpersonal relationships, to maintain a harmonious socialorder, to break the current moral dilemma, to build a moral education systemintegrated of intellectual moral education, moral education and faith moral education.Furthermore, the paper proposes the specific paths to achieve moral values of thepre-Qin Confucian ritual-music culture in present, for example: to change the pre-QinConfucian ritual-music culture into a modern ritual system and standard; to strengthenthe publicity and education of the pre-Qin Confucian ritual-music culture and modernetiquette education; to inherit and protect the excellent traditional ritual ceremoniesand customs.
Keywords/Search Tags:Pre-Qin Confucian, ritual-music culture, moral value, harmony, moral dilemma
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