Quoted from The Book of Rites Ji Fang edited by Dai Sheng in the Western Han Dynasty.
Excerpt from the original:
Zi Yun said, "If you treat your husband with courtesy, you don't doubt it, thinking that you treat people with courtesy. So the nobles are equal, the clothes are different, and the court has a position, so the people have some concessions. "
Translation:
Confucius said: "Rites are used to dispel doubts, distinguish subtleties and prevent people from deviant. So people's grades are different, and the colors and patterns of clothes are different. The imperial court has a fixed class, so that ordinary people know who should let who. "
Extended data
The Book of Rites, also known as The Book of Rites of Little Dai and The Book of Little Dai, was written in the Han Dynasty. The Book of Rites is an important collection of laws and regulations in ancient China, with 20 volumes and 49 articles.
The content of this book is mainly centered on the pre-Qin ritual system, which embodies the pre-Qin Confucian philosophical thoughts (such as the concept of heaven, world outlook and outlook on life), educational thoughts (such as personal cultivation, educational system, teaching methods and school management), political thoughts (such as educational politics, building a harmonious society, ritual system and criminal law) and aesthetic thoughts (such as the theory of material sense and the theory of harmony between rites and music). It is an important resource for studying pre-Qin society.
The Book of Rites is one of the three rites, one of the five classics and one of the thirteen classics. Since Zheng Xuan annotated The Book of Rites in the Eastern Han Dynasty, the status of The Book of Rites has been rising day by day, and it was honored as "Jing" in the Tang Dynasty. After the Song Dynasty, it ranked first in the "Three Rites".
The knowledge and ideological theory of ancient cultural history recorded in the Book of Rites have an important influence on the inheritance of Confucian culture, contemporary cultural education and moral cultivation, and the construction of a harmonious socialist society.
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