Ancient Chinese rituals and customs

Author: Zhao Pijie
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Publish Date: 1996-05-01
Features: Ancient Chinese literary works permeate with the social life and thought concepts of ancient times. To deeply understand these works, it is also necessary to learn some ancient cultural knowledge, including etiquette. Creating, performing, or filming historical-themed dramas and films can be said to be a reproduction of ancient social life. To accurately reproduce history, it is even more necessary to be familiar with ancient cultural knowledge. In order to introduce ancient etiquette and customs with evidence and credibility, ancient materials must be cited. Considering that readers have different abilities to read ancient books, different treatments are made for the citations: those that are easy to understand are directly quoted, and annotations are added in places that are difficult to understand; for those with more difficult texts, translation or a summary of the main idea after the citation is provided. In short, it is hoped that it can meet the needs of more readers.