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China is understood as culture dominated by “ritual” or, to be more precise, by li 禮. This character’s signification is wider than the English “ritual;” it designates the implementation of ceremonies, from ancestral sacrifices to the proper conduct during the preparation of warfare.
He describes Li in Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism as “the universal pattern branching by division from the Supreme Ultimate (T’ai-chi), setting the lines along which things move,” which is opposed to qi as the “universal fluid out of which things condense and into which they dissolve, freely moving when fine or inert when coarse, active as ...
elaboration of the central Chinese concept Li (礼), which carries a wide range of connotations including not only rites and rituals, but also what are generally concerned as good manners, appropriate behavior and acceptable
The concept of li (rites) in ancient China encompasses three levels of meaning, namely: the rituals and ceremonies themselves, moral ethics, and a system of political hierarchy. While these three levels are related to each other, they each carry specific characteristics.
This article provides an overview of controversies in the history of Chinese philosophy concerning the diversity of meanings of the term Li , as well as the comparative issues raised in various...
China is understood as culture dominated by “ritual” or, to be more precise, by li 禮. This character’s signification is wider than the English “ritual;” it designates the implementation of ceremonies, from ancestral sacrifices to the proper conduct during the preparation of warfare.
28 Μαρ 2008 · This article provides an overview of controversies in the history of Chinese philosophy concerning the diversity of meanings of the term Li , as well as the comparative issues raised in various attempts by modern Chinese and Western interpreters to come to terms with this diversity of meanings.
