先秦时期礼教中的和谐思想——从性别的视角分析

The Thought of Harmony in the Pre-Qin Ethics——Analyzing from the View of Gender

先秦礼教对男女性别关系的规定包含若干和谐思想,主要表现在男女言行的和谐、男女受教育内容的和谐、夫妻关系的和谐、子女与父母关系的和谐和尊老养老中的和谐等。出现这些和谐思想的根本原因在于,建立社会、家庭秩序的稳定与和谐是先秦礼教的根本宗旨。从先秦礼教中蕴含的性别和谐因素的本质看,和谐是对立事物存在的一种有序状态,是社会持续稳定发展的前提。

In the pre-Qin ethics, there were several factors of harmony in dealing with the relationship between the male and the female. Those were shown in the harmony in the actions of men and women, in the harmony in the contents of the education of males and females, in the harmony between the husband and the wife, in the harmony between parents and children and also in the harmony in the respect and support of the aged and so on. The essential reason of the harmony in the pre-Qin ethics was that establishing the order, the steadiness, and the harmony was the major purpose of the pre-Qin ethics. From the nature of the harmony of the pre-Qin ethics, we can see that harmony is the state of order in the existence of the natters of contradiction, and it was also the prerequisite of the continual and steady development of society.