Ministry of Rites

Ministry of Rites
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese禮部
Simplified Chinese礼部
Literal meaningRites Ministry
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinLǐbù
Wade–GilesLi Pu
Vietnamese name
Vietnamese alphabetLễ Bộ
Chữ Hán禮部
Manchu name
Manchu scriptᡩᠣᡵᠣᠯᠣᠨ ᡳ ᠵᡠᡵᡤᠠᠨ
Möllendorffdorolon i jurgan

The Ministry or Board of Rites was one of the Six Ministries of government in late imperial China. It was part of the imperial Chinese government from the Tang (7th century) until the 1911 Xinhai Revolution. Along with religious rituals and court ceremonial the Ministry of Rites also oversaw the imperial examination and China's foreign relations.

A Ministry of Rites also existed in imperial Vietnam. One of its tasks was enforcing the naming taboo.[1]

  1. ^ François Thierry de Crussol (蒂埃里) (2011). "The Confucian Message on Vietnamese Coins, A closer look at the Nguyễn dynasty's large coins with moral maxims », Numismatic Chronicle, 2011, pp. 367-406". Academia.edu. Retrieved 22 August 2019.