Battle Of The Nobles: Aesthetic Study Of Military Etiquette In Zuo Zhuan

As one of the five rites,the military rite has an early origin,which involves all aspects of the pre-war war,such as the sacrifice before the war,the courtesy of the opponent during the war and the reward after the war.Outside the battlefield,civil and military diplomacy are also constrained by the rules of propriety,such as the elegance of speech in poetry.These norms of conduct fall under the category of military etiquette.The important events of a state are sacrifices and wars,in the spring and autumn period.Different from later generations,the wars of this period showed their uniqueness due to the different identities of participants and cultural contexts,and so did the military rites.During this period,the leading role on the battlefield was the nobility,who were the backbone of the army and played an important role as a chariot driver during the war.In the later period,with the needs of the war,the civilians gradually joined the battlefield,but they were generally serving as apprentice soldiers,and the leading role on the battlefield was still the nobility.However,these aristocrats who had been trained in the culture of rites and music since their childhood showed a different style on the battlefield.Compared with the results of the war,they paid more attention to the ceremony of fighting,and pursued to fight gracefully,courtly and poetically,therefore,more attention is paid to the observance of military salute.Full of performance of the ceremony shows the noble battlefield majestic posture,the belief in the blessing of the ancestors and the determination to win forged the faith of the aristocracy.And the general combat mentality of the game also makes the soldiers fearless,calm in the face of life and death,even if the death,but also pay attention to appearance,elegance,which is a kind of deep bone cultivation.At the same time,the diplomatic occasion was also a battlefield without the smoke of war.The elegant and poetic speeches of the soldiers and soldiers turned the tense atmosphere into a jubilant "song and poetry conference",and the inexpressibilities in the hearts of the vassals were conveyed in the form of "poetry";The way of speech of "classical Chinese" also nourishes the rich spiritual world of the aristocracy and promotes the ideological realm of the cultural stratum.Recorded in Zuozhuan,the aristocracy,each have each style,such as the wisdom of zi chan,Jin wengong kept his promise and Qin Huigong secret,and so on,these people not only pay attention to appearance of dignity,more emphasis on the inner virtue,the outlook of war of "respect","subject to" throughout,they constantly practice the values of the members of their aristocratic class,also gradually grow into military capabilities,elegant gentleman.