On The Drinking Ceremony Of Zhou Dynasty

China have been ceremonies since the ancient in the world,"Zuo Zhuan" have said manytimes, that the reason why the Huaxia race is different from other races, is that she has thepropriety. The Zhou Dynasty is the foundation and the flourishing period of Chinese traditionalritual civilization, and the “Axle Age” of the Chinese culture. According to the records of “Zhouli Zongbo”, the ancient ritual can be divided into five categories that are Jili, Xiongli, Junli, Binli,and the Skyline. Rural Drinking Ceremony is one of the Skylines."Three Rituals" hasdocumented about this ceremony. Compared with other various rituals, Rural DrinkingCeremony has its own characteristics, that is, it has obvious characteristics of socialenlightenment. It is an important medium for officials and the people, and the government andthe people for interacting.About the origins of rural drinking ritual, if we do exploration research from the perspectiveof philology, Oracle’s rural character is "". It looks like two people around the dish filledwith food, eating utensils kneeling on the water, and that can trace back to the eating together inthe clan society. We can get the generations that Rural Drinking Ceremony is undoubtedly theinheritance of the ancient eating together. However, if we do the research from a culturalperspective, people in the primitive society, they enjoy heaven worship ancestors together, andthen clan chiefs offer food to the tribe. And it will probably be regarded as the beginning mark ofRural Drinking Ceremony, and so I boldly obtain the conclusion that the beginning of RuralDrinking Ceremony comes from the eating together after the ancient ritual.In the Zhou dynasty, Rural Drinking Ceremony has become a more complete rituals, and atthe same time, its ritual and music education function is also increasingly been strengthened.Meanwhile, Rural Drinking Ceremony reflects some spiritual connotation, which worth ourfurther exploration. In addition, holding the Rural Drinking Ceremony, we can get a glimpse intopeople’s ideas of the Zhou Dynasty.In the spring and Autumn Period, many ceremonies were destined. Some rituals，whichmaintenance the king and princess’s authority gradually collapse. As the representative of thepre-Qin, Confucian School assumes the mission of honoring and recovering ritual. They not onlywant to restore etiquette ceremony, but also they pay more attention to their spiritual content andfunctionality of interpretation and heritage. So that， the rural could play a role in people’senlightenment in unrest times. After interpretation of pre-Qin Confucian for Rural DrinkingCeremony’s function, you can make it to become a music education tool in some extent, and itcan better highlight the excellent brilliant civilization pre-Qin ritual.Rural Drinking Ceremony of Zhou dynasty impact on future generations far-reaching, Mr. Li Min has said Qin understanding of social life can help people understand the richness oftraditional Chinese culture. In today’s rule of law and virtue parallel era, Zhou stressed that RuralDrinking Ceremony spiritual content and features will also help educate the coordination ofsocial relationships, promoting social harmony, shaping the style of a civilized society.This article focuses on researching the spiritual content of Rural Drinking Ceremony’sformula and detecting the ideas from the Zhou Dynasty. At the same time, exploring somedifficult problems about Rural Drinking Ceremony, and finally researching the function of ZhouDynasty’s Rural Drinking Ceremony of from the perspective of the pre-Qin Confucian Rites andMusic.