作为宋代家礼发展的标志性成果,《朱子家礼》不仅与宋代官僚士大夫积极推动的礼仪教化实践、北宋时期家礼的发展趋势紧密关联,更与宋代国家礼制教化的推进直接联系在一起。北宋时期官僚士大夫群体对推行礼仪教化民俗逐渐形成了清晰认知,家礼修撰日趋接近庶民层面,并由此促成国家层面的礼制下移意识的明确及官方礼制的庶民化。北宋家礼与国礼的交接极大推进了南宋时期官僚士大夫的家礼修撰意识。《朱子家礼》直接简化、删改古礼之框架体系,旗帜鲜明地宣示为广大士庶民众修礼的意图和有助于国家推行礼教崇化导民的主张,成为充分考量普通庶民生活实际、规范冠婚丧祭诸事和日常居家生活的士庶通礼。《朱子家礼》的仪制规范走出了“行于自家”的范畴,广泛扩展于士庶社会层面,家礼由此上升到了国礼,官僚士大夫群体的礼教意图、官方礼制的下移趋势由此得到了进一步的推进和演绎。
As a landmark in the development of family rituals in Song Dynasty, Chu Hsi's Family Rituals (《朱子家礼》) not only related closely to the active practice for etiquette education by bureaucrats and scholar - officials and the growing trend of family rites in Northern Song Dynasty, but also associated directly with the motivation of its national rite education, The literati and officialdom gradually formed a clear cognition about promoting etiquette education, so they rewrote family rituals and promoted the national rites down to the common people. The compound of family rituals and national rites promoted greatly the consciousness of bureaucrats and scholar - officials of Southern Song Dynasty to compile family rituals. Chu His's Family Rituals simplified and revised the framework of ancient rites and adapted to the real life of ordinary people, which is helpful for the court to guide civilians by means of Confucian code of ethics. Therefore, it became the commonly used rites by fully considering people's daily life and standardizing adulthood rite, marriage rite and funeral sacrificial rite etc. Chu His's Family Rituals that was suitable for the whole society made family rituals up to the level of national rites.