The Adjustment Of Etiquette By Jesus In The Etiquette

In Kang xi Times,the collision of Chinese and western cultures aroused controversy in etiquette. Among the conflicts,’ admiration of Confucius’ and ’ancestor worship’ are the hearts of conflicts. Yang Guangxian Case broke in 1664, and in September the Qing Dynasty started a trial on the Jesuits. Missionaries in Beijing were all exiled to Guangzhou by the Qing Dynasty. 23 missionaries were involved in this and most of them were Jesuits who were exiled to Guangzhou March 1666 and stayed in custody till 1671.Among the five years, they held a meeting in Guangzhou to get ready to make new missionary policies for returning the missionary district. After the meeting, a Chinese devotee Li an delegated by a missionary wrote a command file(Lin Sang Chu Bin Yi Shi) about funeral ceremony. From this file, western catholic funeral was gradually replaced by the powerful Chinese traditional etiquette. The key point is that the core structure of this file is similar with ’Sang Li’ of ’Jia Li’ written by Zhu Xi.By comparing these two files, this essay will observe the similarities and differences in content and structure, explore missionaries’ attitudes and motivations towards controversy in etiquette and if their changes in attitudes are related to the missionary policies. Secondly, Chinese Catholicism funeral ceremony has experienced a process of localization. This essay will study the fact of localization and its meaning by comparison. At last, thin file expresses complicated etiquette and external forms of etiquette indicates rich intrinsic culture. By exploring the great differences on death opinion between Chinese and Western death opinion in funeral ceremony, wider research methods can be used on some problems in the history of Chinese Western cultural exchange.