1. Riyue means: etiquette and music.

2. Ancient emperors often used rituals and music as a means to achieve the purpose of ruling in an orderly and harmonious manner.

3. Ritual and music began in the Xia and Shang Dynasties. In the early Zhou Dynasty, the Duke of Zhou "made rituals and music" to form a unique cultural system. Later, Confucius and Mencius inherited the past and inherited the future, integrating the essence of their predecessors to create a system based on ritual, music, benevolence and righteousness. The core Confucian cultural system has been passed down and developed to this day and is an important part of ancient Chinese civilization.

4. The "ritual and music culture" of the Chinese nation has laid the foundation for China to become a "state of etiquette and music", also known as a "state of etiquette".

5. "Ritual and music culture" has created human glory in the history of Chinese civilization.

6. Although modern industrial, commercial, scientific and technological civilization places too much emphasis on material interests, the traditional "ritual and music culture" has been impacted by commercial secular culture and has lost its essential spirit of classical simplicity.

7. However, the traditional "ritual and music culture" can still play a role in improving human morality and enabling people to achieve self-improvement today.

8. As early as the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, the ancient sages formed a fairly complete system of rituals and music through making rituals and music, and promoted it as moral and ethical rituals and music education to maintain Human harmony in social order.