The Inheritance And Evolution Of The Funeral Of The Zhou Dynasty In The Weifang Area Of ??Shandong

China has the title of "the state of courtesy" and "the courtesy civilization",which is an important symbol of the Chinese nation different from other nationalities.Before entering the class society,the human had so me original customs and habits,after entering the civilized society,part of the customs and habits to rise to the level of national ideology,becoming a noble behavior at all levels.The content of the ceremony covered customs,morals,institutions,thoughts and so on,which is the criterion for restricting the behavior of the nobility.Rites developed more perfectly in the Zhou dynasty,Zhou people on the basis of inheritance of Xia,Shang culture,would further carry forward,and had carried on the preliminary classification,roughly divided into rites of sacrifice,rites of death,rites of army,rites of guest and rites of goodness.The rites of death was the funeral,which was the most solemn ceremony of all kinds of life etiquette.People out of psychological of "worship in that end",for the funeral held very seriously,"high-profile wedding",the etiquette making people overwhelmed of heavy and complicated,magnificent scenes awesome,it was also one of the longest etiquette,according to the regulation of mourning,short months,three years was long,far more than crown ceremony and wedding.Zhou dynasty of C hina had formed a relatively perfect funeral rites,the funeral customs of Zhou dynasty mainly in " Etiquette and Ceremonial "," Book of Rites" and " Zhou Li ".These books introduced the contents of the four different time stages of the Zhou dynasty funeral,including going to the Quiet Room,feichuang,shukuang and other specific links,including Necromancy,changing one's clothes and puttingthe rice in the mouth.The BinQ i need to hold wailed,have the memory of every month,put the fresh fruit and vegetable and so on.Bury consist of chaomiao,shiguan and other content,they together constituting a complicated content of the funeral in Zhou dynasty.The funeral in Zhou dynasty was for nobilities.With the development of the times,it gradually infiltrated into the folk custom and spread,so the content of the funeral of Zhou dynasty was in the folk funeral activities.However,as a cultural phenomenon,the funeral customs,in the process of inheritance,inevitably have the times and regional imprint,as the region and times,it showing a degree of difference.Region of Weifang of modern times was place where the state of Q i was.The influence of Q i Wen hua is deeper,squire seal after,according to the internal and external situation of Q i,adopting a "simplify its manner,obedience the common" loose enlightened cultural policy,this making the rites in state of Lu through more thoroughly,the local indigenous folk largely destroyed,and the state of Q i kept many indigenous folk rites.In modern times,the funeral activities in Weifang,to a certain extent,inherit the content of the funeral of Zhou dynasty.Since modern times,through the comparison,the Weifang funeral custom is consistent with the rites of Zhou dynasty,as in advance with gearing the coffin,grave for the elderly,choosing the same coffin wood as Zhou dynasty.As he died,he need wear new clothes,and let it clean and tidy away,and the old man must die in the room of principal...Some keep name only,but the actual content have occurred qualitative changes,such as evocation and evocation of Weifang area during the period of the Republic O f China was distinct from the evocation of the Zhou dynasty,where as the earth temple,the main content is to burn,put food and weep.Some actual connotations do not change,but the names have changed,such as hosting funeral,in the Zhou dynasty,which is administered to the funeral,since modern times,it is called "She Tou" in the Weifang area and the name of every place is not the same,too.Some content is new content,later generations add,such as "seven times memory",chanting practitioners,this is not the same funeral as the content of the Zhou dynasty,and the folk funeral activities are under the influence of Buddhism and Taoism.The funerals of Weifang area appear some new factors – the memory of every seven day and the memory of after hundred days,accompanied by some religious factors,Buddhism from the ancient times India,gradually affecting people's thought and social life.As C hina's indigenous religion,Taoism had become more and more popular since its birth,and people's social lives had changed.In the funeral custom,the main expression was to ask the monk tao to read.Since modern times funeral activities of Weifang area have the unreasonable problems such as false cry,Yin marriage,extravagance and waste and so on.Ostentation,extravagance and waste and deliberately form,heavy and light heart appearance,these practices not only lead to waste of money and make the life of people to the irrational.We need to learn from the Zhou dynasty funeral,containing the humanistic feelings,to govern the unreasonable phenomenon of the funeral in real life,to carry forward the positive meaning of filial piety and Increase your awareness of the end.In real life,we should not only oppose extravagance and waste,as well as the vulgarization tendency,but also object to ignore the funeral of the practice of etiquette,strengthen the consciousness of treating death seriously from the deep heart's core,combining with the actual situation,below the premise that does not harm the human,is reasonable for the funeral.