Ancient ethics in China, which was established on the basis of the Zhou Ceremony and Propriety, is different both from cognitive ethics in the West and from rationalistic and ideological ethics in China. As a matter of fact, this ancient ethics was rooted in human body from which it developed an ethic theory of human relations in society. No doubt, the announcement of physical connotation of ancient ethics in China is of remarkable significance both to Chinese ethics and to ethics of human race as a whole. On the one hand, it reestablishes the real implication of ancient ethics in China. On the other hand, it corrects and criticisizes modernistic ethics which has been deviating from the root of life farther and farther

human body; ancient ethics in China; husbandandwife relation; dialogic ethics; practitionalism