From April 7 to 9, 2012, the First International Symposium on Rites Studies, co-sponsored by China Rites Studies Research Center in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences of Tsinghua University and Ka Auditorium, was held at Tsinghua. More than sixty experts and scholars from the mainland of China, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, and Japan, Singapore, Australia and United Kingdom, as well as many people interested in the rites, participated in the symposium.