Abstract

Since Mo denounce the Confucian "practice was a long time mourning" and that "burial section," claim, the Meng, Xun convenience Mohist are strongly refute accusations, Confucianism, often between Mexico this subject for intense debate. However, careful examination of the debate regardless, tit for tat on the surface, it is not the focus of debate regardless. Those who adhere to the Confucian mourning, funeral etiquette behind the preservation of the main moral awareness, Mohist, aimed at the instrument in practice for the Reasonableness of its actual social effects. Therefore, the Confucian Xunzi mostly taken after a compromise stance, not only adhere to the maintenance of traditional funerals, funeral etiquette, practice area quietly toward funerals, short funeral reorientation. This was also held regardless and the preset different form of mourning, funeral etiquette possible impact. Since pre-Chin period, different assertions on the funeral customs have been a controversial issue in Chinese culture. Confucians insisted to bury their dead family members ceremoniously and to keep on in deeply sorrow for them for a long time. They kept their insistence on this kind of funeral because of their special ethical ideas. On the contrary, Mohists asked for frugality on funeral. They thought that the Confucians' funeral was a kind of waste. Performing this kind of rites would affect people's ordinary doing and reduce the production of living goods. This essay tries to analysis their debates on ethical and metaphysical concern