Literary Research On The Book Of Rites

As a Confucian classics, The Book of Rites not only influences on the Chinese culture, but also reaches quite artistic achievement in literature. However, it is fairly weak in the literary research on it in the past ages. Therefore, the paper willresearch overall and deeply and distinguish its standing and influence in Chinese literature history from literary angle and in comparance vertically and horicontally, thus reveals clearly that its status and the influence in the Chinese history of literature. Outside the introduction, the paper altogether supposes five chapters, approximately 150,000 characters.The introduction expounds the meaning of selecting the topic and the research ways, emphatically reviews the history of literary research on The Book of Rites.In the ancient times, the research in literature significance was prominently by the of way of commenting the note, that demonstrated the unique style and course of literature explanation on The Book of Rites. Since the near modern age, it has appeared that some Chinese and foreign monographs or papers concerning the literary value of The Book of Rites. Moreover, many classical literary anthology and the classical literary connoisseurship dictionary appeals in the form of both cultured and popular tastes, evaluating the literary achievement of The Book of Rites, which is a big characteristic in this issue.Comprehensive surveyying all previous dynasties studies of The Book of Rites, the study of the stratification plane research makes brilliant achievements, and resides in the mainstream status throughout, but literature stratification plane research is obviously in the weak trend. Until now, the literary research of The Book of Rites is not comprehensive and thorough.Chapter one synthesizes the research achievements by predecessors and combs some problems about The Book of Rites.The origin, compiles process, the circulation age of the book and each author and so on, which is quite complex. Regarding thess questions, the educational world have no same viewpoint. In order to avoid excessively many energy putting in it, this article only indicated the choices manner, namely thought: in Xi-Han Dynasty, Dai Sheng's Book of Rites originated really broadly, was written over in the Pre-Qin, and the authors of everyone can't be defined, that was not a one-person for a while work. The people in the Pre-Qin had the first home to the only solution intended for "Ji" text, as a result of later benefited from different obscure, like the book, the Productivity Council heterogeneous.To be The Book of Rites is not purely explain classics. Therefore, today the relations between it and The book of Ceremony is not completely equate of the biography and classics. We Should be understand the "dynamic" relationship based on the actual things of the Book.The eldest and younger Dai's Book of Rites is not completely alike in contents. "Ritual records" have the stress, the division in brief.So-called saying of young Dai deletes The eldest is rather too simplified.Chapter two expounds the literary thought of The Book of Rites from the aesthetics and social psychology and so on. The Book of Rites thinks that the figure emerges from the heart feeling the things, and so it is related to the society. This viewpoint has laid the rationale for the later generation article.The literature has feeling features, so its roles lie in from "treating heart" to "governing DAO" to "Great Harmony", and serve for the social politics. This kind of realistic function view has affected the production of the descendant literature thought, and constituted the mainstream thought pattern in literature domain and even social, the life domain. Among them, the relations between the "Ritual" and "Music" that it annotated comprehensively and thoroughly has the profound influence on the culture, and the "Ritual" and "Music" has also become the classics summary to the special characteristic of Chinese mainstream culture.In the view of literature and art, The Book of Rites pays attention to the unity of content and form.ecause "Music" what it said has covered the comprehensive art, therefore, the note that it explained the a view on content and form , in fact, already was the literary significance theory of content and form. Many Later generation's views on the content and form has not left its fence. In this sense, the view on content and form forms a connecting link between the preceding and the following, and have a important pattern meaning.Chapter three analyses the numerous figure images, around "Rites". Firstly, the paper elaborates the character survey and the literature significance in The Book of Rites, and then emphatically elaborates especially the Confucian figure images. The Confucius images have the feature of joining the Confucianist, worthy teacher and the wise intoone. Comparring with Confucian analects, The Confucius has much transition characteristic from the real to the saint. This concerns with the posterity's respecting to his, and the infecting what each author of The Book of Rites be receive. This kind of transitional characteristic of the Confucius images provided for us to be possible to help the comparisonal reference premise, that will be helpful to further impels the understanding of evolution question on the Confucius images. And reference to the record in ZUO-Zhuan and SHI-Ji, five pupil images in confucianist were analysed, which supplys valuable date for studying Confucian figure in Pre-Qin, expecially War-Dynasty.Chapter four expounds the formation of the style of The Book of the Rites. In the basis of summarizing the present situation of style research on The Book of the Rites, the chapter analyzes its style shape and characteristic.According to the technique of expression, it is divided into argumentation, exposition and narration. The argumentation already quite is mature, and the thickest literary flavor is narration. Although exposition's literariness is weakest, however, its expression all basically could be succinct, smooth. The Book of Rites adopts the form of recorded utterance universally, which has the development after Confucian analects, and has influence in the later literature, like the question and answer body. Its narratting experience also has the model significance. In addition, the expoundance on "LEI" and "MING" has influence for later ages.Chapter five inquire into the artistic achievement of the Book of the Rites. The ingenious of the composition, the proper superfluity and simplity arrangence of the sentence structure, the distinct feature of words, which forms the elegant and concise literary style. All this qive a permanent reading value.The ending expounds generally the gains of this research. The paper thinks that it should take and practically appraise the artistic achievement and the influence of the Book of the Rites, and also should give the Book of the Rites certain status in the Chinese history of literature. Then it will be more beneficial for us to gain feasible artistic creation and develop the ancient culture. This is the conclusion of the article obtaining after the thorough research.