礼教是什么?是“吃人”的制度,还是一种文明进步?本文认为,礼教是超越宗教文明,以道设教所发展出来的高级阶段文明,是教仁义礼智之教,圣人教化天下的人性教典,是一套完备的政治礼仪制度。几千年来的盛衰治乱,西方从来没离开过宗教,中国从来没离开过礼教:礼教兴,则天下治;礼教废,则天下乱;无礼教,则无以为治。近现代中国虽引入了西方科教文明,然由于它在知识论和价值论上存在着两大坎陷,不但没有建立起现代文明与法则秩序,反而带来生态与精神两大危机,及种种困境。 What is ritual education? Is the system of “eating man” or is it a civilized progress? This article argues that ritual education is an advanced stage civilization that transcends religious civilization and is founded on Taoism, The world of humanity canon, is a complete system of political etiquette. Thousands of years of ups and downs of chaos, the West has never left the religion, China has never left the etiquette: ritual Hing, the world rule; ritual waste, then the world chaos; Although modern China introduced science and education in the West, because of its two limitations in epistemology and axiology, it not only failed to establish the order of modern civilization and law, but brought about two ecological and spiritual crises and various difficulties .