Ritual Study Of Jiang-zhe In The Llate Qing Dynasty

Ritual study is an important part of Confucianism, which is a link between Confucianism and social reality and also the core of Confucian classics study. Though it belongs to the classics study, it exerts more practical civilizing significance than the classics study, which is closely related with society, politics, culture, religion and folk customs.Jiangsu and Zhejiang region has made remarkable influence on late Qing Dynasty in the respects of politics, economy and culture. The ritual study of this region reflects and represents the main features and achievements of the ritual study in late Qing Dynasty, which also display a comprehensive outlook of society and thinking in the late Qing from the angle of academic thinking and social development. Therefore, study of the ritual study of Jiangsu and Zhejiang region in the late Qing has great academic and practical significance.The prosperity of Han Learning in the Qian-Jia epoch is represented by Wu school and Wan school, Wu school has the centre in Suzhou, and Wan school southern Anhui. However, the texture criticism of Han learning encountered severe criticism from the very beginning. Since Dao-Xian-Tong epoch, social turbulence, opium war, and Taiping rebellion had deep impact on social politics and culture in late Qing dynasty, the lower reaches of Yangtze River and South-east coastline region suffered the most, so Jiangsu-Zhejiang region became the focus area of different conflict both at home and abroad. In this period of time, the retrospect of texture criticism of Qian-Jia Han Learning is the reflection of academic thinking and reality, and eventually resulted in the change of research style in Jia-Dao epoch, which led a direct consequence of the Qing's academic centre shift from Southern Anhui and Suzhou to Yangzhou, Changzhou and eastern Zhejiang.Just because of this hardship, a group of prominent scholars of ritual study grew up in this region. Scholars such as Zhu Bin, Shao Yichen, Huang Yizhou, Sun Yirang, focus on rites, Ruan Yuan, Ling Shu, Liu Shipei and Zhang Taiyan, are good at ritual study. Scholars of Jiang-Zhe region in the late Qing Dynasty inherited the tradition of texture criticism in Qian-Jia epoch, and did systematic research of ritual study. Collective ideas of Yangzhou school, rites generalization of eastern Zhejiang school and administration idea of Changzhou school are the representatives of academic field in the late Qing Dynasty, which solved many controversial arguments about the formation and succession of The Three Rituals, and clarified the origin of Yi Li, Li Ji and Zhou Li, and also built the foundation of study of ritual study and classics study. Furthermore, the summarization of ancient rites system clarified the puzzle of the origin of the rites such as meeting hall, God worship and royal hunting, and made the objective criticism for different systems and comments. Through exploration of the relation between rites and reason, exploring the moral significance of name and object system built the foundation of academic development in Qing Dynasty. This series of achievement profits from the succession and development of texture criticism since Qian-Jia epoch. Additionally, the exemplification, illustration and mutual proof ensures the rationality of research method and achievements of ritual study in the Late Qing.Ritual study in Jiang-Zhe in late Qing Dynasty made remarkable achievements, which results in prosperity of ritual study in the late Qing Dynasty, and later declined abruptly, along with Chinese ancient thinking system.Ritual study in Jiang-Zhe in late Qing Dynasty has the centre of Yangzhou, eastern Zhe and Changzhou. The scholars succeeded the scholastic tradition and represented the impact brought by the social influence in the late Qing Dynasty, which is practical exertion and of academic thinking and curing human mind with thought. Their study is the systematic summary of ritual study in Qing Dynasty, which cleared away the barrier and built the solid foundation of Chinese thinking development. The succession, complexity and Zeitgeist of the ritual study of these three schools reflected the real features of philosophical study in the late Qing Dynasty, and also foretold the multi-direction trend of Chinese thinking development in modern China.