礼,按照《礼记·礼运》的说法,是“大道”隐退之后的产物。其缘由乃在于禹之后的圣王因循天道而治人情,安定和重建“大同”之后的社会秩序。《礼运》以为,禹、汤、文、武、成王、周公六君子“谨于礼”而开始了小康的社会。小康所以可能,全在于礼的维系,子游所谓“礼之急”之问带出的,是“失之者死,得之者生”的社会成立的充分必要条件。在如此之礼 Ceremony, according to “Book of Rites, Li Yun,” is the product of “Boulevard” after its retreat. The reason for this lies in the fact that the sacred king after Yu followed the rule of nature and settled and rebuilt the social order after “Datong”. “Li Yun” thought that Yu, Tang, Wen, Wu, Cheng Wang, Zhou Gong six gentlemen “At the ceremony ” and started a well-off society. Well-off may therefore be based on the maintenance of the ceremony, the so-called sub-tour of the “ritual of courtesy,” the question is brought out, “the loss of those who died,” the full and necessary conditions for the establishment of society. In such a ceremony