RESEARCH ON THE CONNOTATIONS OF XING IN SANLI

The Chinese character Xing appears 386 times in Sanli and most of them are related with rituals. The original meaning of Xing is probably the given ritual performance in primitive religion and on the basis of this it is evolved into a kind of ritual act applied to the ceremony situations. In Zhou dynasty Liyue civilization is the deduction of practice and presentation for Xing. The theoretical origin of Confucius' Xing is the one of music or rituals in Liyue culture. Xing of rituals in Sanli system evolves from the attribute of Xing rituals and develops into Confucius' Xing theory and it is indispensable for Xing theory, laying a solid foundation for Xing shaped into the core scope of Chinese classical poetry.