Etiquette and rites

The Confucian classics etiquette and rites , Chinese Yili ( Chinese  儀禮  /  仪礼  - "ceremonies and rituals") is one of the thirteen classics from the Eastern Zhou Dynasty (strictly speaking, the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period ) China .

It contains a lot of information about the Confucian rites and is therefore an important source for the history of Chinese culture . An important edition is the book with the title Yili zhushu ( 儀禮 注疏  - "Commentary and sub-commentary on the Yili"), in which the commentary by Zheng Xuan ( 鄭玄  /  郑玄 ; 127–200) from the late Han period and the sub-commentary also from Jia Gongyan ( 賈公彦  /  贾公彦 ) from the Tang period .

The work was translated into French by Séraphin Couvreur (1835–1919) and Steele into English. A photographic reproduction of a Ming time transmission of a song edition is contained in the important Chinese book series called Sibu congkan .

literature

• Séraphin Couvreur SJ, I-li: Cérémonial; Texts chinois et trad .; Hsien Hsien : Mission Catholique, 1916. Digitized
• John Steele, The I-Li or book of etiquette and ceremonial = I-li / transl. from the Chinese with introd., notes and plans by John Clendinning Steele. (2 vols.) London: Probsthain, 1917. Probsthain's Oriental Series ; 8 ( digitized version, vol. I )
• Michael Loewe (ed.), Early Chinese Texts , Berkeley 1993. ( Online )