1、 1 Subject Offering Department Department of Chinese Culture Subject Code CC 213 / CC 2713 Subject Title Chinese Customs and Rituals 中國風俗與禮儀 Credit Value 3 Level 2 Instructor Dr HO, Koon-wan Medium of Instruction Putonghua (Supplemented with Cantonese) Class Time and Venue To be confirmed Student St
2、udy Effort Required Class contact: Lectures 28 Hrs Tutorials 13 Hrs Chinese Writing Contact 2 Hrs Other student study effort: Reading 38Hrs Writing 35 Hrs Field trip 8 Hrs Total student study effort 124 Hrs Pre-requisite and/or Exclusion(s) Nil Objectives Customs and rituals capture the ways human b
3、eings interact with each other. In the case of rites of passage and seasonal observances, they reveal human beings perceptions of their positions vis-a-vis the larger life-cycle observable in nature. Even though they vary across time and space, customs and rituals perform a cohesive social function
4、that brings together people living in areas that have come under the influence of the same culture. This subject will introduce students to the differences in customs and rituals in the major geographical regions and dialect communities in China, document the process of their transformation over tim
5、e and space, and relate them to Chinese religious beliefs and cultural values. Students will thereby come to appreciate the practices and significance of these social gestures that form part of their daily life. This subject will include substantial reading and writing assignments for the fulfillmen
6、t of the Reading and Writing Requirements in Chinese. 2 Intended Learning Outcomes Upon completion of the subject, students will be able to: (a) comprehend major traditional ritual institutions and prevalent social customs; (b) describe how traditional rites and customs interacted with cultural valu
7、es and religious beliefs; (c) chart the Neo-Confucian effort to foster changes in social customs and the resultant social transformation in late imperial times; (d) tell the reasons behind temporal and regional differences in social customs; (e) read and comprehend texts of traditional rites and eti
8、quettes and bring them to the service of personal cultivation; (f) fulfill Chinese Reading (CR) and Writing (CR) Requirements. Subject Synopsis/ Indicative Syllabus 1. Introduction: Customs, rites, and social order 2. Songs, divination, and the institution of Confucian rites 3. Social customs and cu
9、ltural interaction of social groups 4. Religious ceremony and changes in social custom 5. Cultural significance of seasonal rites and festival celebrations 6. Customs in daily life manifested in different social strata and regions 7. Ancestral halls and lineages: Social significance, state regulatio
10、ns and results in practice 8. Rites for adulthood and marriage: Changes and regional characteristics of classical rites 9. Funeral, burial and sacrificial rites: Changes and regional characteristics of classical rites 10. Efforts to transform social customs: The institutions of communal drinking and
11、 community compacts as rites 11. Zhu Xis Family Rituals and social transformation in late imperial times 12. Ritual communications in the written form 13. The flow of gifts: Reciprocity and social networking 14. The coming of Western customs and the interaction of Chinese and Western rituals Teachin
12、g/Learning Methodology The factual knowledge will be covered in the lectures and tutorials. Students will be asked to formulate responses to the readings before class. They also have to demonstrate understanding of the items chosen for CR in their short reading reports. A field trip in Hong Kong wil
13、l bring students to observe customs and rituals in operation. Students will answer questions set for the observation. The final paper, broadly conceived to cover the content of the subject, will be on a topic that allows students to bring together the key concepts learned in class. The preliminary a
14、nd revised drafts of the paper will be improved with supervision by the Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies (CBS) and/or the English Language Centre (ELC) staff. 3 Assessment Method Specific assessment methods/tasks % weighting Intended subject learning outcomes to be assessed (Please tick a
15、s appropriate) a b c d e f 1. Short reports on major readings and CR readings 40 CR CW 2. Quiz after field trip 20 CR 3. Final paper (Content: 30%; Chinese Writing: 10%) 40 CW Total 100 % For the fulfillment of CW: students have to submit a preliminary draft, revised draft (both to be supervised by
16、CBS staff) and final draft of the Final Paper, in addition to attending instructional activities conducted by CBS staff. CR: students have to demonstrate understanding of the items chosen for CR in their short reading reports. Reading List and Reference CR indicates items used for Chinese Reading Re
17、quirements * Major Readings 1. (CR) 王貴民，中國禮俗史。臺北：文津出版社， 1993。 (Reading Requirement: pp. 1-333) 2. (CR) 梁景和，近代中國陋俗文化嬗變研究。北京：首都師範大學出版社， 1998。（ Reading Requirement: pp. 32-319） 3. (比利時 ) 鐘鳴旦，張佳譯，禮儀的交織：明末清初中歐文化交流中的喪葬禮。上海：上海古籍出版社， 2009。 4. （清）黃以周，王文錦點校，禮書通故。北京：中華書局， 2007。 5. 丁世良、趙放主編，中國地方誌民俗資料彙編（東北、西北、 西
18、南、中南、東南、華北、華東卷）。北京：書目文獻出版社， 1989-1995。 6. 王秋桂主編，中國節日叢書 10 卷（春節，元宵，淸明，端午，七夕，中元，中秋，重陽，冬至，過年）。臺北：行政院文化建設委員會， 1995。 7. 李永匡、王熹，中國節令史。臺灣：文津出版社， 1995。 8. 沈文倬，宗周禮樂文明考論。杭州：浙江大學出版社， 1999。 9. 沈從文，中國古代服飾研究。上海：上海書店出版社， 2002。 10. 周一良、趙和平，唐五代書儀研究。北京：中國社會科學出版社，1995。 11. 秦永洲，中國社會風俗史。濟南 ：山東人民出版社， 2000。 12. 張亮采 ， 中國風俗
19、史 。 臺北 ： 臺灣商務印書館 ， 1969。 13. 陳高華、徐吉軍主編，中國風俗通史。上海：上海文藝出版社，2001。 14. 彭林，中華傳統禮儀概要。北京：高等教育出版社， 2006。 15. 費成康，中國家族傳統禮儀。上海：上海社會科學院出版社，* * * * 4 2003。 16. 楊存田，中國風俗概觀。北京：北京大學出版社， 1994。 17. 齊如山，中國風俗叢談。瀋陽市：遼寧教育出版社， 2006。 18. 齊濤主編，中國民俗通志（生養志、信仰志、喪葬志、婚嫁志、服飾志、節日志）。濟南：山東教 育出版社， 2007。 19. Bodde, Derk. Festivals in
20、 classical China: New Year and other annual observances during the Han Dynasty, 206 B.C.-A.D. 220. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1975. (pp. 1-41, 361-368) 20. Dor , Henry. Chinese customs (translated from the French with notes, historical and explanatory by M. Kennelly). Singapore: Gr
21、aham Brash, 1987. 21. Dun, Lichen. Annual customs and festivals in Peking as recorded in the Yen-ching Sui-shih-chi by Tun Li-chen (translated and annotated by Derk Bodde). Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, 1965, 2nd ed, revised. 22. Bogan, M. L. C. Manchu Customs and Superstitions. In Derk Bo
22、dde and M. L. C. Bogan, Annual customs and festivals in with Manchu Customs and Superstitions. Taipei: SMC Publishing Inc., 1994, rpt * (pp. 1-140) 23. Ebrey, Patricia Buckley. Chu Hsis Family Rituals: A Twelfth-Century Manual for the Performance of Cappings, Weddings, Funerals, and Ancestral Rite.
23、Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991. (pp. 3-34) 24. Ebrey, Patricia Buckley. Confucianism and Family Rituals in Imperial China: A Social History of Writing about Rites. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991. 25. Gernet Jacques. Daily life in China, on the eve of the Mongol invasion, 1250-1276 (translated from the French by H. M. Wright). Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1962. (pp. 144-218) 26. Ward, Barbara E. Chinese festivals in Hong Kong (photography by Joan Law). Hong Kong: MCCM Creations, c2005, 3rd ed. (pp. 1-79) * * * *
