The Research On The Value Of Confucian Ritual Theory Which Used In The Moral Education In Colleges

Qian Mu, who is known as a master of sinology, once said that the Chinese traditional culture can be fundamentally expressed in one word: “rite”.In the 5000-year-long history of China, with the effect on the politics?economy?military ?customs and culture of the ancient society,“Rite” has played a central role in the vicissitude of the civilization. And the ideas and ethics?cognition and faith?rules and regulations?culture and art, and so on, which contained in the classical literature formed by the research to ideology of ceremony and etiquette, had an profound Impact on individuals and society. All the academic activities, which are formed under the influence of the different forms and categories of the rites, and the integration of ideology, cultural ideas and spiritual wealth, can be named as “the thought of rites.”Rite, which can be used as governing a country, ordering the people, and seeking benefits for the descendants, is a necessary part of our national culture, and for the reason above, it can be passed on generation after generation as gem. After entering the modern civilized society, changes in our national conditions made the development of the rite runs counter to the previous with the exaggerating of the rite's negative effect. And combining with this, the reason above degraded the culture of rite into dross. Fortunately however, at the present time, the Chinese traditional culture is advocated to be inherited and carried forward, and the ritual culture is gradually being treated objectively and fairly.But for the reason that modern college students who were grown up in a market economy have a superficial understanding of etiquette culture, it is significant to make them know the ritual culture much deeper.Moral education is the soul of education. Moral education of college students, which is related to the stability and harmony of the country, is the most important content in education. In contemporary China, accompanied by the rapid development of economic and social, It is easy for everyone to see that different cultures have a profound impact on college students In the field of thought and culture. The change of values, the alienation of moral ethics, the fuzziness of political belief and traditional culture, all of these are against the socialist core values system,and moral education courses in colleges are facing new challenges. Bacon said:” Histories make men wise”. Review the history, moral literacy of ” a nation of etiquette” has written brilliant chapter in the world cultural book. So with the purpose to making the development and innovation of moral education, to consolidating the socialist core value system, we should vigorously promote the moral education in Colleges and Universities. The various ideological connotations of the ritual culture have a positive effect on the correct ideological understanding forming?on the promotion of moral realm ?on the code of etiquette and on promoting harmonious campus culture. So moral education in universities not only has a positive significance to improve the moral quality of contemporary university students, but also has an important influence on the inheritance and development of our excellent traditional culture.