Does The Book of Rites have anything to do with Confucius?

Yes, The Book of Rites was written by Confucius and his disciples, and compiled by Dai Sheng, a ritualist in the Western Han Dynasty.

The book * * * has 20 volumes and 49 articles, with rigorous composition, tactful words and orderly and changeable language, which mainly records the ritual system of the pre-Qin dynasty and embodies the philosophical thoughts of the pre-Qin Confucianism (such as the view of heaven, the view of the world and the outlook on life).

Educational thoughts (such as personal cultivation, educational system, teaching methods, school management), political thoughts (such as educational politics, building a harmonious society, etiquette and criminal law), aesthetic thoughts (such as the theory of moving things, the theory of harmony between rites and music).

Creation background

The Six Classics were handed down by seventy-two disciples of Confucius and their students, edited by Dai Sheng, a ritual musician in the Western Han Dynasty, and taught by Confucius disciples. They are the carrier of the highest philosophy in China's classical culture. However, it is not easy to understand ancient documents, so it is difficult to read them thoroughly, and more interpretations are needed to assist understanding. The "ceremony" in the Six Classics was later called "righteousness"

It mainly records the ceremonies of the crown, marriage, funeral and sacrifice in the Zhou Dynasty, which is limited to the style and hardly involves the etiquette behind the ceremony. If you don't understand etiquette, the ceremony will become a worthless ceremony.

Therefore, in the process of practicing etiquette, the post-seventies wrote a lot of papers explaining classics, collectively called records, which belong to the vassal of etiquette. After Qin Shihuang burned books to bury Confucianism, there were still many ancient pre-Qin prose records in the Western Han Dynasty, among which "History of Art Granted by Han Dynasty" and "Literature" were 13 1 piece.