Origin: Yang Huo in The Analects of Confucius.

Confucius often teaches people to learn etiquette and music, which is not a general etiquette, so we emphasize the spirit of culture and the philosophy of culture. Confucius said here that the gift is not just to send ham, it is just a little gift to express family affection, mainly the spirit of culture. Music is not just singing and dancing, it is to sublimate people's spirit to the realm of eternal optimism.

There are gifts, music and forms. With form, it is easy to get out of shape and get rid of the inside and outside. Jade itself is not a gift, but dedication has become a gift. Bells and drums themselves are not music, only when they are played devoutly can they become music.

Gifts should be human, so they are called gifts, not just ham, but mainly the spirit of culture. Music needs to conform to benevolence, which is the so-called music. Not only singing and dancing, but also subliming people's spirit to an optimistic state. "Rite" and "music" have a kind of vitality and internal strength, which is the spiritual enlightenment and awakening of morality, the pursuit of moderate harmony and maximum well-being, and the highest realm of humanistic education of rites and music.

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Ceremony is the symbol of human civilization, and people are different from animals to a great extent because of ceremony. Ceremony is the conscious form of human stability and the conscious correction of human barbarism. Etiquette is an established behavior habit with clear behaviors and signs.

For example, Jiuding is a ritual vessel of the status of the son of heaven, and jade, bells and drums are symbols of the ceremony. Jade, in the age of Confucius, was a ritual vessel of a gentleman's personality. My word "Yu Zi" originates from the pursuit of a gentleman's personality, and it is also a kind of self-cognition and self-expectation.

The connotation of etiquette is to serve and obey benevolence, righteousness, faith and Taoism. Reading of the analects of confucius, a modern man, inherits Confucian culture, which is not a symbol or a procedure, but a spirit and a modernization. This is the path and pursuit of Confucian modernization.

Baidu Encyclopedia-The Analects of Confucius and Yang Huo