内容摘要：本文通过查阅古籍，网络资源及相关期刊论文文献，从而得出了自夏商两朝至汉朝这段时期内“礼”的产生原因、过程与历史沿革状况，进而对“礼”的涵义进行逐层地分析研究，直至得出“礼”的最深层的涵义，随后通过分析“礼”的双方面内容，“典章制度”和“道德规范”，得出并阐述了“礼治”的本质为“道德规范之治”，并解说了礼治的教化和规范功能。最终介绍了中国传统社会中礼治和法治关系，是从相分立到法治排斥礼治时期，直至最终的“礼法融合”时期，从而知晓中国传统社会中君王的治国治家中心思想为“礼法融合”。“礼治”在中国传统社会的作用是重要的。
关键词：礼 礼治 礼治的本质 礼法融合
Abstract: Through access to ancient texts, journal articles related to network resources and literature to the Xia and Shang dynasties obtained from the period to the Han "ceremony" of the causes, processes and state history, and then on the "gift" to the meaning of layer by layer analysis of research, until the "ceremony" the most profound meaning, followed by analysis of "ritual" dual aspects, "laws and institutions" and "ethics", drawn and described the "Rites" is the essence of "ethics of governance", and explain the ritual function of governance and norms enlightenment. Ultimately describes the traditional Chinese ceremony of governance and the rule of law relations are from the phase separation to the rule of law exclusion ceremony colonial period until the end of the "rites fusion" period, which know the traditional Chinese society, the king of the country statesman central idea of the "rites integration." "Rites" in traditional Chinese society's role is important.
Key words:Ceremony,Rule of Rites,The nature of Rule of Rites,Integration of etiquette
