论礼器的文化意义与哲学意义

在先秦礼学中,人们将世间的器物划分为祭器与养器两种类型,这是基于神圣与世俗两重世界的理论;而将礼器分为祭器与明器两类,则是依照存在人与鬼神的两个世界的理论。周人在死者的随葬品中,兼用这两种器具,正是灵魂禁忌潜在地表现出理智与情感两种矛盾的反映,礼的器具下蕴含着深刻的礼意。礼意依存于礼器的朴素思想,开启了中国古代哲人对于道器关系的沉思。

On the Cultural Meaning and Philosophical Meaning of the Implement of Rite

In Pre-Qin's theory of rite, people divide the implement into two parts as sacrificial utensil and household utensils it bases on the theory, which the world divided into sacred and secular. When the world was divided into human and the ghost or god, the implement of rite was distinguished two kinds as sacrificial utensil and ghost utensil. In burial articles, people in Zhou Dynasty always use these two kinds of implements, which presented the contradictory of reason and feeling of people. The implements of rite contain the deeply ideal of rite. The simply thought which the ideal of rite contained by implements, arouse Chinese philosopher to think the relation of Tao and concrete thing.