With the essential content of ancestor worship, today＇s mid-autumn funeral culture in Korea has become the most important and widely accepted cultural phenomenon with unique Korean features. In fact, Buddhist rituals had been adopted by Korean people in funerals and ancestor worship ceremonies since the period of Silla until the period of Goryeo. However, the popularization of the ideology of Zhu Zi and the work Ritualism of Zhu Zi made funeral culture change gradualIy. As rituals abide by Confucianism began to spread widely in Joeson Dynasty, viewpoints on life and death became completely different too. Mean- while, Yangban officials＂ life style of ＂worshiping ancestors by way of receiving honored guests＂ played a key role in the establishment of Confucian funeral culture.%在今天的韩国，以祖先祭祀为本质内容的中秋丧祭文化既是对韩国人最重要、在韩国社会中覆盖最广，又是最具韩国人特色的文化现象。其实，从新罗开始至整个高丽时期的近千年，韩国人的丧祭文化还是以佛教式为主导。然而，从朝鲜王朝开始，随着朱子学的“一统天下”和《朱子家礼》的普及，丧祭文化逐渐转向儒教式。这种转向不仅在丧葬形式上，而且在生死观上也都表现出了根本的变化。在这一过程中，“在地两班”以“奉祭祀，接宾客”的生活方式，又为儒教丧礼文化在韩国的最终确立发挥了关键作用。
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