A Research On Xunzi' Ritual And Music

In the ancient times, the ritual, music are always taken as the social grand ceremony. Starts from the primitive people, ancestors were used to understand the unique concept of ritual and music. The ritual music culture from Xia Shang and Zhou dynasty is presents an impressive sight. But it destroyed from Chunqiu dynasty which demonstrated the time had reformed. Confucious had made something important to rites of zhou but did nothing for the political. Until the establishment of culture and education of ritual and music based on the ill-condition by Xunzi, the power of ritual and music had been much stronger and what is more, played the important role in the law society. And then, the ritual had been an important spirit and ideal at that time, which affected numerous facts of society.The establishment system of ritual and music of Xunzi was based on the restrictive function by ritual and mind adjusting by music. It was recommended on the experience and society affection of ritual and music, and had gain much on the doctrinal and social function. It was observed by Confucious and unlocked the theory of Xunzi. The logic of which is based by intrinsic psychological and external cultural dialectical relations also took external culture and education form, and intrinsic psychology empirical base as existence basis. It expressed the ritual and music thoughts"ritual, reason; music, co ordinary"as a new theory, it had summary the formal culture and unlocked the next one, even more, coordinated with the time, so it was greatly successful. That was the meanings of research on the ritual and music theory of Xunzi, a realist person.