Phenomenon Of Unauthorized Ceremony Of The Spring And Autumn Period

"The falling down of the ceremony and propriety" in the Spring- and- Autumn periods, not only refers to destroy the traditional ceremony, more means to overstep the ceremony phenomenon at that time over and over. For a long time, our understanding to overstep the ceremony phenomenon in the Spring -and -Autumn periods is simple and one-sided, we think that it creats the disorder of original society, this unavoidably affects our correct understanding to historical development in the Spring-and-Autumn periods transformation stage. Superficially, the phenomenon seems to obstruct social progress and development. Otherwise, a series of social questions because of beyond ceremony affects together and accelerats the historical advance step, this point frequently has been neglected for us.Taking this into consideration, the paper aims at the Spring-and-Autumn periods universal existence beyond phenomenon to carry on selecting topic and researching, it has two goals: First, the paper may clarify people's erroneous understanding to the ceremony. Although the royalty was on the decline, the ceremony and propriety collapsed badly in the Spring- and- Autumn periods, the ceremony didn't abolished, from the country to individual, the ceremony was playing the important role and influence. Second, we hope that it causes some scholars' attention to overstep ceremony phenomenon, so that they study it deep level and evaluate it rationality and objectively .The paper's research value lies in that it is helpful to know the function and theinfluence of the ceremony in the transformation stage ------Spring -and- Autumn periods, also isadvantageous to think over the historical evolution from all sides and the deeper level for us .The paper is divided into four parts:First part: The preface of the paper introduces simply several viewpoints related the ceremony origins and summarizing the connotation of the ceremony. We think the ceremony can origin from the sacrificial offering at first, it regards as a social norm to adjust the relate between individual and individual and individual and community, it expresses itself by various aspect decrees and regulation forms, for example, national politics, economy, culture, military, religion as well as people's life daily expense, manners and customs and so on. At the same time, the paper also introduces the studying conditions on beyond ceremony in the Spring-and-Autumn periods.Second part: The paper exposes the movement of the traditional ceremony in the Spring -and -Autumn periods in three forms: obedience the ceremony, violation the ceremony and beyond the ceremony, in order to distinguish violation ceremony from beyond ceremony and correct some scholars' wrong understanding on the interrelation between violation ceremony and beyond ceremony, at the same time, the paper explains that people's ideas of ceremony are still thick at that time. Third part: The paper has reorganized the beyond ceremony phenomenon which comes out in the literature records and the archaeology graves, explains that it is universal objective social phenomenon in the Spring -and -Autumn periods, thus, the question which we study has its practical significance.Fourth part: The paper analyzes the historical function of beyond ceremony withemphasis .First, the paper analyzes outstanding thinker at that time------Confucian's attitude andessence to the beyond ceremony who experienced the social transformation .On the one hand, Confucian opposed that lower authority overstep higher authority's ceremony, on the other hand, he advocated that the ceremony should face the common people, in essence, Confucian requested to reduce disparity among the people. Next, the paper points out the reasonable place in western philosopher Conde and Hegel's thought about "wickedness" historical function, and elaborates Marx and Engels' understanding to this question. Finally, the paper exposes the positive role of beyond ceremony by six aspects, for example, production of ceremony idea, thought breeding of valuing the people, the collapse of clan rule, the formation of the new bureaucratic system, the transformation from the blood relationship country to the region country, open and free the ideology concept and the mental outlook as well as the appearance of debaters and the debatable ideology trend.Paper's conclusion reiterates the flaw of traditional Marxist who analysis the process of the historical development with the social basic contradictions rule, introduces some scholars' new interpretation on the historical development driving force of Marx and Engels, that is to say, Marxism boils the human's need and the resulting practice down to the ultimate driving force of historical development. So, the paper is played a solid theoretical foundation. Finally, the paper affirms that the phenomenon of beyond ceremony plays the positive role to the historical development by the condition, it and series of social problems arising from beyond ceremony interact and promote the progress of history.