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The Chinese ritual and music system is a social system that originated in the Zhou dynasty to maintain the social order.[1]

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  1. 73 relations: Analects, Archery, Banpo, Beijing, Book of Documents, Book of Rites, Ceremony, Chinese Communist Party, Classic of Music, Classic of Poetry, Complete Classics Collection of Ancient China, Confucian ritual religion, Confucius, Dance in China, Diplomacy, Duke of Zhou, Emperor Huizong of Song, Emperor Shun, Emperor Wu of Han, Emperor Yao, Fengjian, Folk music, Gudi (instrument), Han dynasty, Hemudu culture, Henan, History of Chinese dance, Hunting, King Wu of Zhou, Laozi, Lüshi Chunqiu, Li Zehou, Lyrics, Majiayao culture, Marquess Wen of Wei, Mencius, Mozi, Music Bureau, Music of China, Nanhua University, Neo-Confucianism, Neolithic, Oracle bone, Patriarchal clan system, Pentatonic scale, Qin dynasty, Qing dynasty, Shamanism, Shang dynasty, Social issue, ... Expand index (23 more) »

  2. Ancient Chinese institutions
  3. Ancient institutions in East Asia
  4. Confucian rites

Analects

The Analects, also known as the Sayings of Confucius, is an ancient Chinese philosophical text composed of sayings and ideas attributed to Confucius and his contemporaries, traditionally believed to have been compiled by his followers.

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Archery

Archery is the sport, practice, or skill of using a bow to shoot arrows.

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Banpo

Banpo is a Neolithic archaeological site located in the Yellow River valley, east of present-day Xi'an, China.

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Beijing

Beijing, previously romanized as Peking, is the capital of China.

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Book of Documents

The Book of Documents, or the Classic of History, is one of the Five Classics of ancient Chinese literature.

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Book of Rites

The Book of Rites, also known as the Liji, is a collection of texts describing the social forms, administration, and ceremonial rites of the Zhou dynasty as they were understood in the Warring States and the early Han periods. Ritual and music system and Book of Rites are Confucian rites.

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Ceremony

A ceremony is a unified ritualistic event with a purpose, usually consisting of a number of artistic components, performed on a special occasion.

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Chinese Communist Party

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), officially the Communist Party of China (CPC), is the founding and sole ruling party of the People's Republic of China (PRC).

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Classic of Music

The Classic of Music was a Confucian classic text lost by the time of the Han dynasty.

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Classic of Poetry

The Classic of Poetry, also Shijing or Shih-ching, translated variously as the Book of Songs, Book of Odes, or simply known as the Odes or Poetry (詩; Shī), is the oldest existing collection of Chinese poetry, comprising 305 works dating from the 11th to 7th centuries BC.

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Complete Classics Collection of Ancient China

The Complete Classics Collection of Ancient China (or the Gujin Tushu Jicheng) is a vast encyclopedic work written in China during the reigns of the Qing dynasty emperors Kangxi and Yongzheng.

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Confucian ritual religion

Confucian ritual religion (s 礼教, t 禮教 Lǐjiào, "rites' transmission", also called 名教 Míngjiào, the "names' transmission"), or the Confucian civil religion, defines the civil religion of China. Ritual and music system and Confucian ritual religion are Confucian rites.

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Confucius

Confucius (孔子; pinyin), born Kong Qiu (孔丘), was a Chinese philosopher of the Spring and Autumn period who is traditionally considered the paragon of Chinese sages, as well as the first teacher in China to advocate for mass education.

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Dance in China

Dance in China is a highly varied art form, consisting of many modern and traditional dance genres.

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Diplomacy

Diplomacy comprises spoken or written communication by representatives of state, intergovernmental, or non-governmental institutions intended to influence events in the international system.

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Duke of Zhou

Dan, Duke Wen of Zhou, commonly known as the Duke of Zhou, was a member of the royal family of the early Zhou dynasty who played a major role in consolidating the kingdom established by his elder brother King Wu.

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Emperor Huizong of Song

Emperor Huizong of Song (7 June 1082 – 4 June 1135), personal name Zhao Ji, was the eighth emperor of the Song dynasty of China and the penultimate emperor of the Northern Song dynasty.

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Emperor Shun

Emperor Shun was a legendary leader of ancient China, regarded by some sources as one of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors being the last of the Five Emperors.

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Emperor Wu of Han

Emperor Wu of Han (156 – 29 March 87BC), born Liu Che and courtesy name Tong, was the seventh emperor of the Han dynasty from 141 to 87 BC. His reign lasted 54 years – a record not broken until the reign of the Kangxi Emperor more than 1,800 years later – and remains the record for ethnic Han emperors.

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Emperor Yao

Emperor Yao (traditionally c. 2356 – 2255 BCE) was a legendary Chinese ruler, according to various sources, one of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors.

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Fengjian

Fēngjiàn (l) was a governance system in Ancient China and Imperial China, whose social structure formed a decentralized system of confederation-like government. Ritual and music system and Fengjian are ancient Chinese institutions.

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Folk music

Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival.

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Gudi (instrument)

The Jiahu gǔdí are the oldest known musical instruments from China, dating back to around 6000 BCE.

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Han dynasty

The Han dynasty was an imperial dynasty of China (202 BC9 AD, 25–220 AD) established by Liu Bang and ruled by the House of Liu.

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Hemudu culture

The Hemudu culture (5500 BC to 3300 BC) was a Neolithic culture that flourished just south of the Hangzhou Bay in Jiangnan in modern Yuyao, Zhejiang, China.

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Henan

Henan is an inland province of China.

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History of Chinese dance

Dance in China has a long recorded history.

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Hunting

Hunting is the human practice of seeking, pursuing, capturing, and killing wildlife or feral animals.

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King Wu of Zhou

King Wu of Zhou (died), personal name Ji Fa, was the founding king of the Chinese Zhou dynasty.

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Laozi

Laozi (老子), also romanized as Lao Tzu and various other ways, was a semi-legendary ancient Chinese philosopher, author of the Tao Te Ching, the foundational text of Taoism along with the Zhuangzi.

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Lüshi Chunqiu

The Lüshi Chunqiu, also known in English as Master Lü's Spring and Autumn Annals, is an encyclopedic Chinese classic text compiled around 239BC under the patronage of late pre-imperial Qin Chancellor Lü Buwei.

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Li Zehou

Li Zehou (13 June 1930 – 2 November 2021) was a Chinese scholar of philosophy and intellectual history.

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Lyrics

Lyrics are words that make up a song, usually consisting of verses and choruses.

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Majiayao culture

The Majiayao culture was a group of neolithic communities who lived primarily in the upper Yellow River region in eastern Gansu, eastern Qinghai and northern Sichuan, China.

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Marquess Wen of Wei

Marquess Wen of Wei (Wèi Wén Hóu; died 396 BCE) was the first Marquess to rule the State of Wei during the Warring States period of Chinese history (475 – 220 BCE).

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Mencius

Mencius was a Chinese Confucian philosopher, often described as the Second Sage (亞聖) to reflect his traditional esteem relative to Confucius himself.

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Mozi

Mozi (original name Mo Di; Latinized as Micius;; –) was a Chinese philosopher, logician and essayist who founded the school of Mohism during the Hundred Schools of Thought period (the early portion of the Warring States period, –221 BCE).

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Music Bureau

The Music Bureau (Traditional Chinese: 樂府; Simplified Chinese: 乐府; Hanyu Pinyin: yuèfǔ, and sometimes known as the "Imperial Music Bureau") served in the capacity of an organ of various imperial government bureaucracies of China: discontinuously and in various incarnations, the Music Bureau was charged directly, by the emperor (or other monarchical ruler), or indirectly, through the royal (or imperial) government to perform various tasks related to music, poetry, entertainment, or religious worship.

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Music of China

The music of China consists of many distinct traditions, often specifically originating with one of the country's various ethnic groups.

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Nanhua University

Nanhua University (NHU) is a university located in Dalin Township, Chiayi County, Taiwan.

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Neo-Confucianism

Neo-Confucianism (often shortened to lǐxué 理學, literally "School of Principle") is a moral, ethical, and metaphysical Chinese philosophy influenced by Confucianism, which originated with Han Yu (768–824) and Li Ao (772–841) in the Tang dynasty, and became prominent during the Song and Ming dynasties under the formulations of Zhu Xi (1130–1200).

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Neolithic

The Neolithic or New Stone Age (from Greek νέος 'new' and λίθος 'stone') is an archaeological period, the final division of the Stone Age in Europe, Asia and Africa.

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Oracle bone

Oracle bones are pieces of ox scapula and turtle plastron which were used in pyromancya form of divinationduring the Late Shang period in ancient China.

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Patriarchal clan system

In ancient China, the patriarchal clan system of the Zhou cultural sphere was a primary means of group relations and power stratification prior to the Western Zhou and through the first half of the Eastern Zhou dynasty. Ritual and music system and patriarchal clan system are ancient Chinese institutions and ancient institutions in East Asia.

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Pentatonic scale

A pentatonic scale is a musical scale with five notes per octave, in contrast to heptatonic scales, which have seven notes per octave (such as the major scale and minor scale).

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Qin dynasty

The Qin dynasty was the first dynasty of Imperial China.

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Qing dynasty

The Qing dynasty, officially the Great Qing, was a Manchu-led imperial dynasty of China and the last imperial dynasty in Chinese history.

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Shamanism

Shamanism or samanism is a religious practice that involves a practitioner (shaman or saman) interacting with the spirit world through altered states of consciousness, such as trance.

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Shang dynasty

The Shang dynasty, also known as the Yin dynasty, was a Chinese royal dynasty that ruled in the Yellow River valley during the second millennium BC, traditionally succeeding the Xia dynasty and followed by the Western Zhou dynasty.

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A social issue is a problem that affects many people within a society.

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Song dynasty

The Song dynasty was an imperial dynasty of China that ruled from 960 to 1279.

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Spring and Autumn period

The Spring and Autumn period in Chinese history lasted approximately from 770 to 481 BCE which corresponds roughly to the first half of the Eastern Zhou period.

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Tang dynasty

The Tang dynasty (唐朝), or the Tang Empire, was an imperial dynasty of China that ruled from 618 to 907, with an interregnum between 690 and 705.

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Tang of Shang

Cheng Tang (born Zi Lü), recorded on oracle bones as, in English, Tai Yi (太乙) or Da Yi (大乙), was the first king of the Shang dynasty.

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Theatre state

In political anthropology, a theatre state is a political state directed towards the performance of drama and ritual rather than towards more conventional ends such as warfare and welfare.

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Well-field system

The well-field system was a Chinese land redistribution method existing between the ninth century BCE (late Western Zhou dynasty) to around the Warring States period. Ritual and music system and well-field system are ancient Chinese institutions.

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Western Zhou

The Western Zhou (771 BC) was a period of Chinese history corresponding roughly to the first half of the Zhou dynasty.

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Wey (state)

Wei, commonly spelled Wey to distinguish from the contemporary larger Wei (魏) state, was an ancient Chinese state that was founded in the early Western Zhou dynasty and rose to prominence during the Spring and Autumn period.

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Wu (shaman)

Wu is a Chinese term translating to "shaman" or "sorcerer", originally the practitioners of Chinese shamanism or "Wuism" (巫教 wū jiào).

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Wuxing (Chinese philosophy)

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Wuyang County

Wuyang County is a county in the central part of Henan province, China.

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Xi'an

Xi'an is the capital of Shaanxi Province.

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Xia dynasty

The Xia dynasty is the first dynasty in traditional Chinese historiography.

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Xun (instrument)

The xun (Cantonese.

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Yangge

Yangge is a form of Chinese folk dance developed from a dance known in the Song dynasty as Village Music (村田樂).

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Yayue

Yayue was a form of classical music and dance performed at the royal court and temples in ancient China.

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Yejong of Goryeo

Yejong of Goryeo (11 February 1079 – 15 May 1122; r. 1105–1122), personal name Wang U, was the 16th king of the Korean Goryeo dynasty.

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Yellow Emperor

The Yellow Emperor, also known as the Yellow Thearch or by his Chinese name Huangdi, is a mythical Chinese sovereign and culture hero included among the legendary Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, and an individual deity (shen) or part of the Five Regions Highest Deities in Chinese folk religion.

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Yin and yang

Yin and yang, also yinyang or yin-yang, is a concept that originated in Chinese philosophy, describing an opposite but interconnected, self-perpetuating cycle.

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Yu the Great

Yu the Great or Yu the Engineer was a legendary king in ancient China who was famed for "the first successful state efforts at flood control," his establishment of the Xia dynasty which inaugurated dynastic rule in China, and his upright moral character.

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Zhejiang

Zhejiang is an eastern coastal province of the People's Republic of China.

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Zheng (state)

Zheng (Old Chinese: *) was a vassal state in China during the Zhou Dynasty (1046–221 BCE) located in the centre of ancient China in modern-day Henan Province on the North China Plain about east of the royal capital at Luoyang.

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Zhu Xi

Zhu Xi (October 18, 1130April 23, 1200), formerly romanized Chu Hsi, was a Chinese calligrapher, historian, philosopher, poet, and politician of the Southern Song dynasty.

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See also

Ancient Chinese institutions

Ancient institutions in East Asia

Confucian rites

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritual_and_music_system

Also known as Ritual Music System.

, Song dynasty, Spring and Autumn period, Tang dynasty, Tang of Shang, Theatre state, Well-field system, Western Zhou, Wey (state), Wu (shaman), Wuxing (Chinese philosophy), Wuyang County, Xi'an, Xia dynasty, Xun (instrument), Yangge, Yayue, Yejong of Goryeo, Yellow Emperor, Yin and yang, Yu the Great, Zhejiang, Zheng (state), Zhu Xi.