Chinanews.com, December 20th. Recently, Peng Lin, the first batch of senior liberal arts professors at Tsinghua University and a famous teacher of "Hundreds of Lectures", held a live connection, leading readers to read his work "Rituals and Music China" and experience the profound rituals. music culture.
During the live broadcast, Professor Peng Lin first talked about the origin of writing this book.
Influenced by TV dramas, when mentioning ritual and music, some people think it is a "feudal relic", while others think of kowtowing and bowing. In fact, these are all misunderstandings and one-sided interpretations of ritual and music culture.
"Rituals and Music China".
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As a historian, Peng Lin has been devoting himself to spreading ritual and music culture for many years.
He hopes that through rituals and music, the cultural self-esteem, cultural awareness and cultural self-discipline of Chinese people can be established.
Then, Peng Lin explained the connotation and connection of "ritual" and "music".
"Book of Rites" says: "Li is also the reason." Li is the norm that runs through the principles of all things.
Li is everywhere, and etiquette is everywhere.
The external forms of bowing and bowing are just the details of ritual.
"Guanzi Herdsmen" said: "The granary is solid and you know the etiquette, and you know the honor and disgrace if you have enough food and clothing." When the material life reaches a certain level, and you don't have to worry about food and clothing, you will pursue spiritual development, pay attention to etiquette, and distinguish between honor and disgrace, so that Your own life is more quality.
Chinese culture takes "human" as the center, and regards how a person can grow from a zoological person to a morally perfect person through self-cultivation as a compulsory course in life.
Rituals are the norms of being a human being, so this process is completed by learning and practicing rituals.
Like "ritual", "music" is also the product of a nation's civilization that has developed to a certain extent.
The ancient Chinese divided what people call "music" into three levels from low to high, which are called sound, sound and music respectively.
Among them, "music" is the highest level, which has the function of moral education, as the saying goes, "music is the music of virtue".
The content of Confucian self-cultivation involves all aspects of daily life, and its essence includes internal and external aspects.
The so-called internal means to know how to cultivate one's heart and mind with pure thought, elegant style, neutrality and peace, which has the function of moral education.
The so-called external means knowing how to use etiquette to restrain one's behavior, eliminate hostility, reject vulgarity, know how to abide by social order, respect others, be kind to others, speak elegantly, cultivate virtue, and change temperament.
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Courtesy to self-cultivation, joy to transform the heart.
The double cultivation of ritual and music means both internal and external cultivation.
"Both rites and music are available, which is called virtue." He is gentle and has the style of a gentleman.
Finally, Peng Lin shared two short stories about rituals and music from ancient to modern times, and pointed out that a life without the influence of rituals and music is an imperfect life.
According to reports, "Ritual and Music China" is both popular and professional. The book selects more than 100 famous aphorisms about ritual and music culture from "Book of Rites", "The Analects of Confucius", "Zuo Zhuan" and other classics. All have translation notes and analysis.
In addition, the book is also equipped with many pictures related to ritual and music culture, which further enriches the content of the book.
The etiquette restoration picture in the color insert is really precious, exclusively authorized by Professor Peng Lin, and comes from his project.
According to the written descriptions of ancient etiquette and music in ancient books such as "Zhou Li", "Yi Li" and "Book of Rites", Professor Peng Lin's team restored the ancient etiquette, such as "The Restoration of the Wedding Etiquette of Zhou Dynasty Couples".
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