Zhou Dynasty Etiquette And Rank Society

The Zhou Dynasty etiquette culture holds the important status in thepre-Qin history research. The Zhou Dynasty etiquette rank research have involved bypredecessor scholars, but rarely seen landscape orientation combed, lacked from theetiquette rank angle of view to explain the Zhou Dynasty society character. This articlemainly analyzes Zhou Dynasty society rank this character from the etiquette rank, thenachieves to grasp the Zhou Dynasty society essence.The article altogether divides into four parts:The first part mainly elaborated the clue of The Zhou Dynasty etiquette developmentand background of ritual study boom in Spring and Autumn periods andexpounded close relations between the ritual study and Confucian thoughts, and thetime which involved to this article has given showing, mainly referred at the beginningof The Zhou Dynasty to Spring and Autumn Period this phases. Meanwhile the partbriefly made the introduction to achievement of former times' scholars and explainedresearch necessity. The part distinguished between class in the politics and rankin the this article.The second part mainly has combed the etiquette rank characteristic, from theetiquette material level and the ceremony level. The ceremony rank from Zhouperson's national grand ceremony, the religious sacrificial offering to the food, clothing,shelter and means of traveling, passes through Zhou people social life the aspects,admits no exceptions whatsoever from the aristocrat to the common people.Third has analyzed Zhou Dynasty's rank character. Separately from aristocrat statusand the title rank, Ji Zhou tribe and other tribal group tribal group's rank difference,under the ancestor legal system male and female rank difference as well as the old andyoung sequence rank aspect omni-directional the part has carried on the analysis to theZhou Dynasty society's rank characteristic.The fourth part mainly elaborated the etiquette substantive characteristics is "thedispartment", but "music" has the function which gathers, the Zhou Dynasty "theritual music civilization" is unifies like this ingeniously in together. The rank etiquetteattain to control members of different social members surmounting system and thelegal by he institutional control, ethics public opinion guidance, the psychological approval in atmosphere situation and the integrity symbol system.Finally the article pointed out that, the etiquette rank characteristic have seepedto in the week person's blood vessels, and evolved the Chinese nation thought oneunique way.