礼乐文明是中华文明的基本形态,也是中华文艺思想的逻辑起点。礼乐以其独特的艺术形式开启了中华文艺发展演变的进程,奠定了其基本走向,铸就了其民族品性。探讨中华文艺思想的起源必须回到艺术的原点,回到早期礼乐文明,回到以典礼为核心的礼仪艺术。按照马克思关于艺术也是一种生产活动的观点,“宗教、家庭、国家、法、道德、科学、艺术等等,都不过是生产的一些特殊的方式”(《马克思恩格斯全集》,人民出版社1979年版,第42卷,第121页),“人们是自己的观念、思 Ritual and civilized civilization is the basic form of Chinese civilization, but also the logical starting point of Chinese literature and art. Ritual, with its unique artistic form, opened the process of the evolution of Chinese literature and art, laid its basic trend and shaped its national character. To explore the origin of the thought of Chinese literature and art must return to the original point of art, return to the early ritual and civilized civilization, and return to the ritual art with the ceremonial as the core. According to Marx’s view that art is also a production activity, ”religion, family, nation, law, morals, science, art, etc. are but some special ways of producing“ (The Complete Works of Marx and Engels, People’s Publishing 1979 edition, volume 42, p. 121), ”People are their own ideas, thoughts