“礼仪之辨”对春秋政治的影响

Influence of“Separation of Etiquette and Ceremony”on the Politics in the Spring and Autumn Period

春秋时期,经历着礼崩乐坏,然而不能忽视的是当时贵族们在这一时期建立新秩序的努力。在这一维新政治发展过程中,礼、仪分立扮演着重要角色。通过对礼与仪的分辨,仪式化的政治行为由于较低的政治效用而被贵族们放逐到政治之外,对礼则进行了改造,贵族们或仰仗武力,或抽绎传统文化,加强了礼的政治效用。可以说,春秋时期的维新政治是伴随着礼仪分立而进行的。这种分立无疑表明了春秋时期贵族社会认识方式的变化,甚至可以说认识方式的变化是这一时期维新政治更为核心的内容。

In the Spring and Autumn Period, etiquette collapsed. However, we can not ignore the work that the nobles did to establish the new order. In the reform of politics,“separation of etiquette and ceremony”played an im-portant role. By“separation of etiquette and ceremony”, the nobles exiled ceremony out of politics and modified cere-mony. The nobles strengthened the political utility of etiquette either by force or traditional culture. It is safe to say that reform of politics in the Spring and Autumn Period was based on the“separation of etiquette and ceremony”, which changed the nobles’ way of understanding the society. And it can even be said the change of the nobles’ way of un-derstanding the society is the core of reform of politics in the Spring and Autumn Period.