The Official-led Revival of Confucian Ceremony at Qufu Confucius Temple

Zeyu KANG

Abstract


In order to achieve the dream of construction Chinese harmony society which proposed by Chinese government, the Confucian thought which influenced China more than 2000 years might be inevitable and the image of Confucius gradually became to a powerful cultural symbol when the rapid of modernization caused the moral and social issue in China. The heritage of Confucian ethos still affects the authorities that the “ritual” has occupied a crucial position especially the cult and sacrifice of Confucius. The revival of Confucian ceremony at Qufu Confucius temple has shifted in significance from the official religion and Confucian philosophy to one of political symbols of the CCP.


Keywords


Confucian ceremony; Chinese tradition; Cultural leadership

Full Text:

PDF

References


Billioud, S., & Thoraval, J. (2009). Lijiao: The return of Ceremonies Honouring Confucius in mainland China. China Perspectives, (4).

Billioud, S. (2010). Carrying the Confucian torch to the masses: The challenge of structuring the Confucian Revival in the People’s Republic of China. Oriens Extremus, 49, 201-224.

Chan, K. (2016). “Moral Crisis and Confucian Resurrection: New Three-Word Classic in China/Crisis moral y resurrección del confucionismo: nuevo Clásico de las Tres Palabras en China”, Araucaria, 18(35), 87.

Chen, L. (2001). The Confucian Conception of Rituals and Modern World. Confucius Studies, 1, 4–12.

Chen, Y., & Wang, Q. M. (2017). The dilemma and evolution of sacrifice to Confucius in modern times. Journal of Hunan University, 31(4), 52-57.

Ecns.cn. (2017, September 28). China marks 2,568th anniversary of Confucius’ birth, In L. P. Gu (Ed.). Retrieved from http://www.ecns.cn/2017/09-28/275585.shtml (accessed 05 Jan 2018)

Flath, A. J. (2016). Traces of the sage: Monument, materiality, and the first temple of Confucius. University of Hawai’i Press.

Ford, C. A. (2015). The party and the sage: Communist China’s use of quasi-Confucian rationalizations for one-party dictatorship and imperial ambition. Journal of Contemporary China, 24(96), 1032-1047.

Fröhlich, T. (2017). Civil Religion on a Confucian Basis. In Tang Junyi: Confucian Philosophy and the Challenge of Modernity (pp.240-249). LEIDEN; BOSTON: Brill. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1163/j.ctt1w8h0ph.13

Lasswell, H. D. (1951). The political writings of Harold D. Lasswell: Psychopathology and politics; Politics—who gets what, when, how; Democratic character. American Political Science Review, 45(3), 936.

Ho, N. (2009). Unlikely bedfellows? Confucius, the CCP, and the resurgence of Guoxue. Harvard International Review, 31(2), 28-31.

Huang, J. X. (1998). Revisit the sacred filed: rightous, faith and legitimacy. Shan Xi University Press.

Golley, J., Jaivin, L., & Tomba, L. (Eds.). (2017). Control. (China story yearbook 2016). The Australian National University press.

Lam, J. S. C. (1999). State sacrifices and music in Ming China: Orthodoxy, creativity, and expressiveness. Albany: State University of New York Press, 15-16.

Mingran, T. (2016). The Problem of Confucian moral cultivation and its solution: Using Ritual propriety to support rule by law. Front. Philos. China, 11(1), 88-103.

Murray, J. K. (2009). “Idols” in the temple: Icons and the cult of Confucius. The Journal of Asian Studies, 68(2), 371-411.

Cai, Y. W. (2018, January 4). China wants students to inherit ‘Red Gene’. SIXTH TONE. Retrieved from http://www.sixthtone.com/news/1001501/china-wants-students-to-inherit-red-gene.

Payette, A. (2016). Local Confucian revival in China: Ritual teachings, ‘Confucian’ learning and cultural resistance in Shandong, China Report, 52(1), 1-18.

Chen, S. G. (Ed.). (2017, November 14). The CCP has the adequate reasons to be self-confident. People’s Daily. Retrieved from http://opinion.people.com.cn/n1/2017/0904/c1003-29511987.html

Radice, T. (2017). Li (Ritual) in early Confucianism. Philosophy Compass, 12(10), n/a.

Sima, Q. (1982). Records of the historian (2nd ed.). Beijing: Zhonghua Book Company.

Sun, L. Y. (2015). Ritual communication of sacrificial ceremony for Confucius (Master’s thesis). Zheng Zhou University, Henan.

The intangible cultural heritage in China. (2006). The national lists 2006: Confucius ceremony (No. X-35). http://www.ihchina.cn/5/11100.html (accessed 04 November 2017).

Wilson, T. A. (2002). Sacrifice and the imperial cult of Confucius. History of Religions, 41(3), 251-287.

Wu, S. (2014). The revival of Confucianism and the CCP’s struggle for cultural leadership: A content analysis of the People’s Daily, 2000-2009. Journal of Contemporary China, 23(89), 971.

Yan, H., & Bramwell, B. (2008). Cultural tourism, ceremony and the state in China. Annals of Tourism Research, 35(4), 969-989.

Zhang, T., & Schwartz, B. (1997). Confucius and the Cultural Revolution: A Study in Collective Memory. International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society, 11(2), 189-212.




DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3968/10706

Refbacks

  • There are currently no refbacks.


Copyright (c) 2018 Canadian Social Science

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Reminder

  • How to do online submission to another Journal?
  • If you have already registered in Journal A, then how can you submit another article to Journal B? It takes two steps to make it happen:

Submission Guidelines for Canadian Social Science

We are currently accepting submissions via email only. The registration and online submission functions have been disabled.

Please send your manuscripts to css@cscanada.net，or css@cscanada.org for consideration. We look forward to receiving your work.

 Articles published in Canadian Social Science are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC-BY).

 

Canadian Social Science Editorial Office

Address: 1020 Bouvier Street, Suite 400, Quebec City, Quebec, G2K 0K9, Canada.
Telephone: 1-514-558 6138 
Website: Http://www.cscanada.net; Http://www.cscanada.org 
E-mail:caooc@hotmail.com; office@cscanada.net

Copyright © Canadian Academy of Oriental and Occidental Culture