《礼记》，儒学经典之一，所收文章是孔子的学生及战国时期儒学学者的作品。西汉末学者戴德将或稍早于他的刘向收集的130篇综合简化，一共得85篇，称为《大戴礼记》，后来其姪戴圣又将「大戴礼记」简化删除，得46篇，再加上《月令》、《明堂位》和《乐记》，一共49篇，称为《小戴礼记》。「大戴礼记」至隋、唐时期已散逸大半，现仅留传39篇，而「小戴礼记」则成为今日通行的《礼记》。

汉景帝时鲁恭王刘余初好治宫室而坏孔子宅，得古《礼》五十六篇于坏壁之中，礼家将其中与今《仪礼》相同的十七篇录下，得以流传。《奔丧》、《投壶》见于另外三十九篇中，也录下得传。其余篇章，因为藏之秘府，世人难得一见，后来散逸不传，称为“逸《礼》”。

The Book of Rites or Liji, literally the Record of Rites, is a collection of texts describing the social forms, administration, and ceremonial rites of the Zhou dynasty as they were understood in the Warring States and the early Han periods. The Book of Rites, along with the Rites of Zhou (Zhouli) and the Book of Etiquette and Rites (Yili), which are together known as the "Three Li (San li)," constitute the ritual (li) section of the Five Classics which lay at the core of the traditional Confucian canon (Each of the "five" classics is a group of works rather than a single text). As a core text of the Confucian canon, it is also known as the Classic of Rites (Lijing), which some scholars believe was the original title before it was changed by Dai Sheng.