In the Zhou Dynasty, could a wealthy man without nobility enjoy an aristocratic life? Why?

You can enjoy the life of the aristocracy, but many bronze utensils that can only be used by nobles are not allowed to be used privately, such as sacrificial ritual vessels.

The reason is that in a hierarchical society, these utensils are an important symbol of aristocratic status and rank, and they are not allowed to be used beyond the ranks.

Patriarchy is an important political system in the Western Zhou Dynasty, which is based on blood relations, and the core is the primogeniture inheritance system. This system played a role in maintaining the political hierarchy of the Western Zhou Dynasty and stabilizing social order.

The ritual system The "rites" emphasized in the Spring and Autumn Period of the Western Zhou Dynasty were developed and transformed by the aristocracy according to the customs and habits of the patrilineal clan system at the end of the primitive society, and used as a means to rule the people and consolidate the internal relations of the aristocracy. The purpose is to maintain its patriarchal system and monarchy, clan, husband, and divine power, and has the role of maintaining the hereditary system and hierarchy of the aristocracy and strengthening the rule. At that time, many economic and political rules and regulations were often intertwined in the celebration of various ceremonies, relying on the observance of various ceremonies to establish and maintain.

By the late Spring and Autumn Period, there was a situation of "etiquette collapse and happiness". While seizing the power of the king, these princes not only usurped the gifts of the princes, but even usurped the gifts of the Son of Heaven. According to the etiquette, the dance of the Son of Heaven uses "eight qiao" ("佾" is the meaning of "column", eight people in each column, and sixty-four people in eight hundreds), at this time Ji Sun also used "eight hundred dances in the court", Kong Qiu rebuked and said:

It's tolerable, it's unbearable! According to the ceremony, the Son of Heaven sang the poem "Yong" to remove the sacrifice, and at this time, the three families of Lu were "withdrawn with "Yong", and Confucius believed that this kind of thing should not come from the "hall of the three families". According to the etiquette, only the Son of Heaven can "travel" (sacrifice) to Mount Tai, at this time Ji Sun's "travel to Mount Tai", and Confucius accused him of not knowing the etiquette ("The Analects of the Eight Hundred Chapters").

This kind of "arrogance" by Dr. Qing is in essence a manifestation of seizing political power.

The ritual system is mainly used to maintain the patriarchal system and the monarchy, clan, husband, and theocracy. "Xunzi Treatise on Etiquette" says: "There are three books of etiquette:

Heaven and earth are the foundation of life; The ancestors are the origin of the class (race); The master is also the root of the rule. "The heavens and the earth, respecting the ancestors and honoring the monarch are the three books of etiquette. The said "three books of rites", heaven and earth represent divine power, ancestors represent clan power, and monarchs represent monarchy power.

Later rulers took heaven, earth, kings, relatives, and teachers as the main objects of worship, and it was according to this theory that the rulers took them.

It must be a pickaxe.

The feudal system is patriarchal and the ritual music system.

1.Haojing, Xi'an, Shaanxi, Zhou Wuwang, Jifa.

2.Separate envelope system.

3.The foundation is the Ida system.

4.The Zhou Dynasty regulated the status of the nobility through the system of ritual music.

Dingdu Hojing, present-day Xi'an, Shaanxi The Ida System and the Sub-Sealing System The Ida system is the basis of the sub-sealing system.

It should be through the feudal system to regulate the status of the aristocracy.

1. China's regional and ethnic complexity. The Tang Dynasty poet Liu Yuxi wrote "Wuyi Lane", with the poem "In the old days, Wang Xie Tang Qianyan flew into the homes of ordinary people", lamenting that Wang Xie's former residence has long been gone. The concept of "aristocracy" has often become relative due to China's diverse ethnic composition, frequent dynastic changes, and even a few times over the millennia when the Han Chinese, the dominant population, have been ruled by foreign peoples.

For example, after the establishment of the Qing Dynasty, the Aixin Jueluo family could be called "nobles", but before that they were only a relatively large leader among the nomads. A few years ago, it was rumored that the descendants of a family surnamed Zhou claimed to be the direct descendants of the Wen family of the Zhou Dynasty on the Internet, and still retain the lifestyle of the aristocracy, but it has not been clearly verified;

2. About the great aristocracy of Japan, Europe and the United States. In fact, the only nobleman in the world who has been able to maintain a pure bloodline for thousands of years is the Japanese Imperial Family. The so-called "Emperor of the Ten Thousand Generations" refers to the fact that from the first "Emperor Jimmu" to the present, it has always been of the same bloodline.

Of course, there is still controversy in this, because according to historical research, there have been discontinuities among the Japanese imperial families without surnames. As for other European and American countries, the nobles left are no more than a hundred years old, for example, today's British royal family is only the origin of the "Windsor Dynasty" that began to obtain the throne at the beginning of the last century, and the previous Stuart dynasty and Tudor dynasty have disappeared.

In Chinese history, the change of dynasties is more frequent, every time the dynasty changes, most of the original ruling class has been purged, and even brought to the point of cutting the grass and eradicating the roots, driving out all the extermination, so such a continuous cycle, the old aristocracy perishes, the new aristocracy rises, the new aristocracy in maintaining a prominent position after finally being overthrown by the new forces, to modern times, China's many revolutionary movements, the continuous blow to the old forces, especially after the founding of New China, the complete purge of the old forces. Therefore, it is impossible for a great aristocracy to appear in modern China. The Japanese imperial family has never experienced the change of the imperial court, and the imperial family is in the same line, of course, there will be the existence of great nobles.

In Europe, in many countries, in the bourgeois revolution, the bourgeoisie and the aristocracy often reached a compromise, such as England, France, etc., and while the bourgeoisie won the victory, it also retained some of the privileges of the aristocracy, so that the aristocracy could be retained. The history of the United States is short, and there is no aristocracy.

Dynasties change too often. Every change of dynasty will change a group of nobles.

China is generally rich for no more than three generations, and no generation has worked hard, how can it achieve a career.

During the Zhou Dynasty, there were six instruments of sacrifice: wall, cong, ju, zhang, amber and huang.

Cangbi Liten: Blue round flat jade.

Huang Cong Lidi : Yellow-brown square bottle.

Oriental Rite : Oriental wood, wood color green. The god is a dragon, and the sacrificial vessel is made of a cyan rectangular gui.

Chizhang Rite South : The south belongs to fire, and the fire is red. The god is a red bird, and the sacrificial vessel is long red and half-pointed like a knife-shaped zhang.

White Amber Ceremony West : The West is golden, golden and white. The god is a white tiger, and the sacrificial vessel is carved into a tiger-shaped hidden model jade in white.

Xuanhuangli North: Sincerely, the north belongs to water, and the water is black. The god is Xuanwu, and the sacrificial vessel is made of black semicircular Huang.

Xunzi's explanation of jade explains the jade used by the ancient Son of Heaven for the special situation of the stove:

Hire people to be a wall, ask a scholar to be a wall, call people to be a person, be a person to be a person, and oppose a ring.

The surname Ji is the national surname of the Zhou Dynasty, and it is also the big surname in ancient times, so the people are very prosperous. After King Wu of Zhou established the Zhou Dynasty, the capital of the western capital was Haojing (today's Xi'an), and the eastern capital Luoyi (near today's Luoyang), and later due to the war and ruin of the western capital, King Ping of Zhou moved the capital to the eastern capital. Therefore, the nobles surnamed Ji of the Zhou Dynasty are mainly distributed in the western capital and the eastern capital, at the same time, King Wu of Zhou and the Duke of Zhou wantonly divided the descendants of the same surname as the princes and kings, "Zuo Chuan" said that the Western Zhou Dynasty divided the "brother country of five out of ten, the country of the surname Ji forty people", after the victory of the Zhou Gong's Eastern Expedition, a large-scale division of the princes, there are 53 princely states surnamed Ji, and later the larger vassal states such as Lu State, Yan State, Wei State, etc., the governance of these vassal states is also the gathering place of the Ji surname rules.

(1) Answer: The etiquette system was formulated by Zhou Gongdan. The ritual system is a cultural system that maintains the feudal system. On the one hand, it has played a role in maintaining governance and stabilizing order; On the one hand, it suppresses human individuality and creativity.

2) Answer: Critically inherit the traditional ritual and music civilization from a scientific perspective, and the traditional ritual and music civilization is conducive to the construction of a harmonious society "ritual and music impermanence" and should keep pace with the times. The goal of building a "harmonious society" includes many specific contents, such as democratic rule of law, fairness and justice, sincerity and fraternity, vitality, stability and order, and harmony between human beings and nature.

Of course, these contents have the characteristics of modern life, but they are inextricably linked to traditional ritual culture.