"According to The Times"or"According to the Saints"?--The Dilemma and Transformation of the Construction of the Ritual System in the Republic of China from the Ritual System Seminar in Beiquan
In 1943,Dai Jitao,as the main constructor of the KMT,held a ritual system seminar in Beiquan,Chongqing.He wanted to make a new etiquette system under the opportunity of the Anti-Japanese War and Constructing China,so as to provide the Chinese society with a sense of sanctity and ritual from daily life to national construction.The discussion of the ritual system semi-nar forced on wedding,funeral,sacrificial ceremony.For wedding,they forced on the legal effect of parental orders,The discussion of parents funeral is the specific debate about ritual reflects the conflict,compromise and remolding of ritual system between tradi-tion and modernity.The discussion of the sacrificial ceremony mainly focuses on the state sacrificial ceremony,which reflects the re-modeling of state authority and the new form of national relations in the new era.
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