A study on Ling Tingkan's book Explanations of the Classic Rites
Ling Tingkan's book Ex planations of the Classic Rites discusses both the names and objects,as well as the direction and location of conducting etiquette and the rules of conducting etiquette.The standard of his classification is neither the five etiquettes such as ji,xiong,jun,bin and jia nor the eight etiquettes such as guan,hun,shang,ji,xiang,she,chao and pin.He reclassified the things,forms,di-rections,positions,rituals and ceremonies recorded in the entire book"Yili".The book covers a total of 246 styles,mainly based on the scriptures and annotations of The Book of Rites and other books.The Commentary on the Classic of Rites has a great significance in exploring the style of The Book of Rites.The Commentary on the Classic of Rites is not perfect,and its examination of etiquette is worth discus-sing.Ling Tingkan's Commentary on the Classic of Rites has significant academic value and far-reaching academic influence.
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