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Confucian rituals have had a tremendous impact on modern Chinese education, building a continuity between modern and traditional education.

Many cultures in the world value the passage of tradition through rituals. Geir Sigurðsson argues that li/rituals in Chinese history constituted “a wide range of interhuman or ethical behavior, gestures, and responses informed and partially prescribed by the cultural tradition.” As noted by Roger Ames (2011, p. 109, in Sigurðsson, 2015, p. 96), such rituals would allow individual interpretation and elaboration, emphasizing embodied experience, as shown in the Chinese characters of ti 体 (body) and li 礼 (rituals), which are cognates, referencing “a living body” and “embodied living,” respectively.