乡饮酒礼始于周代,最初不过是乡人的一种聚会方式,儒家在其中注入了尊贤养老的思想,使一乡之人在宴饮欢聚之时受到教化。秦汉以后,乡饮酒礼长期为历代士大夫所遵用,直到道光二十三年,清政府决定将各地乡饮酒礼的费用拨充军饷,才被下令废止,前后沿袭约三千年之久,在中国历史上产生过深远的影响。 Township drinking ceremony began in the Zhou Dynasty, initially only a way of gathering villagers, Confucianism in which injected the virtuous elders thought, so that a rural people were feast at the feast of enlightenment. After the Qin and Han dynasties, the drinking ceremony in the township was a long time followed by the literati in various dynasties. Until the Daoguang twenty-three years, the Qing government decided to allocate the expenses for drinking and drinking in rural areas to be repayed and ordered to be abolished. The history was followed for about three thousand years. Have had far-reaching impact.