Book of Rites (礼记)
Item
- Title
- Book of Rites (礼记)
- Chinese Title
- 礼记
- 禮記
- Romanizations
- Liji
- Li ji
- Li-chi
- Alternate Chinese Title
- 礼经
- 禮經
- Alternate Chinese Title Romanization
- Lijing
- Li jing
- Li-ching
- Year
- Han Dynasty
- Summary
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The Liji (Record of Rites) is a foundational collection of ritual texts that shaped Chinese social and political life. Compiled during the Han Dynasty (c. 1st century BCE) by scholars like Dai Sheng, it draws on older Warring States traditions. Rather than a dry rulebook, it is an expansive anthology covering mourning rites, court etiquette, education, and music. It emphasizes li (ritual propriety) as the essential framework for harmonizing the individual, the family, and the state. Notably, it contains the Daxue and Zhongyong, which later became core Neo-Confucian classics.
- URLs
- ChinaKnowledge.de
- Item sets
- Classical Texts
Linked resources
| Title | Class |
|---|---|
| Extraits du Li-Ki sur la Pieté Filiale | TranslationSection |
| Le Li Ki, Cinquième Livre Canonique du premier Ordre | TranslationSection |
| Le Li Ki. Cinquiéme Livre Canonique du premier Ordre | TranslationSection |
| Rituum Memoriale | TranslationSection |
| Title | Class |
|---|---|
 Cursus litteraturae sinicae |
Translation |
 Description [...] de l'empire de la Chine (1735) |
Translation |
 Description [...] de l'empire de la Chine (1736) |
Translation |
 Doctrinae Sinicae brevis indagatio |
Translation |
 From Confucius to Zhu Xi |
Translation |
 Mémoires Concernant l’histoire, les Sciences, les Arts, les Moeurs, les Usages, etc. des Chinois, par les Missionaires de Pékin |
Translation |
 Philosophia sinica tribus tractatibus |
Translation |
 Ritualis sinensium Li 禮 Ki 記 (BAjuda Cod. 46-XII-7) |
Translation |
| Ritualis Sinensium Li-Ki capita (Vat.lat. 12852) | Translation |