Concept

Book of Rites

Overview

collection of ancient Chinese texts that describe the social forms, administrative structures, and ceremonial rites of the Zhou dynasty, as interpreted during the Warring States period and the early Han dynasty

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Philosophers who discussed Book of Rites

• Laozi
• Itō Jinsai
• Carsun Chang

Related ideas

• Yuan dynasty
• Warring States period
• Great Learning
• Zhu Xi
• Qing dynasty
• Burning of books and burying of scholars
• James Legge
• Doctrine of the Mean
• Ming dynasty
• Han dynasty
• Qin dynasty
• Zhou dynasty
• Xunzi (book)
• Song dynasty
• Chinese language
• Confucianism
• Confucius
• Li (Confucianism)
• Han Feizi
• Lüshi Chunqiu
• Qin Shi Huang
• Zheng Xuan

Opposing perspectives

• Tao Te Ching

Place in the tradition

Part of Confucianism.

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