传统礼俗的生死安顿与当代挑战

Settlement of Life and Death of Traditional Etiquette and Contemporary Challenges

在社会变迁下,传统礼俗失去了安顿生死的实质意义,只剩下形式意义。为了重新证实它确有安顿生死的效果,深入传统礼俗本身,从善尽孝道开始,到传家任务的完成,表示它真的可以安顿人的生死。但仅指出它具有安顿生死的效用还不够,还需要进一步面对当代的挑战,看它是否可以安然通过社会背景变迁、科学否认死后生命、性别价值不再父系、个人主义盛行的考验?如果可以,那么它就有继续存在的价值,否则就会失去存在的价值。经过探讨的结果,发现它对孝道传家的强调就是一项超越时代限制的价值,只是这样的价值不再像过去那样定于一尊,而是个人安顿生死的选择之一。

Under the social changes,traditional etiquette lost the essential meaning of settling life and death,leaving only formal meaning. In order to reconfirm that it does have the effect of settling life and death,being deep in traditional etiquette itself,from the beginning of filial piety,to the completion of the mission,said that it can really settle people＇s life and death. But it is not enough to only point out that it has the effect of settling life and death. It also needs to further face contemporary challenges and see whether it can safely pass the test of changes of the social background,scientific denial of life after death,no longer patrilineal gender values,and the test of the prevalence of individualism. If it can,then it has the value of continuing to exist,or it will lose the value of existence. Through the result of discussion,this paper found that its emphasis on filial piety was a value that transcends the limits of the times. Just such a value was no longer fixed as one in the past,butwas one of the choices for individuals to settle life and death.