论恭敬与谦让的礼学意蕴

传统社会中，人与他人所结成的各种社会关系是以亲亲、尊尊、长长为基础的礼学关系，礼的行为可以归纳为恭敬撙节退让这六个字。在礼学中，无论是“敬”的理由，还是表现“敬”的方式，都带有浓厚的经验性特征。礼与敬是形式与内容的关系，儒家的恕道是礼仪中敬让原则的基础。

Implications of Respect and Modest in Ritual Knowledge

In a traditional society, one＇ s relation with the others is the association based on the ritual knowledge of loving the consanguinities, respecting the superiors and supporting the seniors, and the ritual behavior can be summed up in the 3 words of respect, retrenchment and concession. In ritual knowledge either the reason for ＂respect＂ or the way to show ＂respect＂ are of marked characteristic of experience. The relation between rite and respect is that between form and content. And the reciprocity principle of confucian school is the foundation of the respect and concession principle in ritual ceremony.