In 1943, Jitao Dai held a symposium about etiquette at the ChongQing Beibei Spring, and Ceremony of the Republic of China was formulated, and its background, formulation process, main contents, progresses and limitations are discussed and analyzed in this paper. On the background of the demand of society and political activity and the pushing of high-ranking officials' person, and based on Rituals of state Draft, and after a conference of the rituals and discussing the ritual in BeiQuan, Ceremony of the Republic of China was formulated, and its main contents are the five ceremonies of auspicious, fine, military, guest, inauspicious. For a variety of reasons at that time, inevitably, some limitation exists, for example, superstition, tediousness, behind the time and ideology of hierarchy and so on. But the progresses is indispensable, such as, simplifying ceremony and etiquette in the content, and having certain innovation, and absorbing western etiquette, and acting on international convention, and having strong systematicness and sense of order. |