A Preliminary Study Of Local Archery In Ming Dynasty

Rural archery is a kind of ritual activity prevailing in pre-Qin Dynasty.The rites and music society of Zhou Dynasty was the most prosperous era of rural archery.However,different from the original archery activities,the rural archery of Zhou Dynasty focused on"rites" and its ritual process was extremely complicated and did not focus on competition.Not to hit as the main objective,mainly to emphasize its ceremonial nature.After the Qin Dynasty,the Han Dynasty can be seen frequently in Shandong.Sima Qian wrote in his Preface to the Tai Shi Gong that he had seen the village archery in Shandong Province.However,the development of the village archery thereafter is quite rare in the history books.Until the Ming Dynasty,the village shooting ceremony suddenly revived,from the Hongwu three years(1370),in the Ming Dynasty in the whole society of the village shooting ceremony with a complete,standardized appearance in the nationwide held up,mainly in the local Chronicles everywhere can be seen in the "shooting garden",but because of the former no custom,although the distance from the "ceremonial" book years past thousands of years,However,the formulation of local village archery rites in Ming Dynasty was still mainly based on the rites recorded in Yi Li.Meanwhile,the village archery rites in Ming Dynasty also had its own distinctive characteristics,showing its own style of The Times.This article will start from the Ming Dynasty rural archery mainly according to the rules of literature"Yi Li·rural Archery",to explore the Ming Dynasty rural archery many problems.From the Ming Dynasty official document "Ming Ji Li",we can know the official regulations of the village archery in the Ming Dynasty.From the local Chronicles,we can see the local use of the official regulations of the village Archery in the Ming Dynasty.From the literature compiled by the Ming Dynasty scholars,we can see that under the influence of the Ming Dynasty retro movement,The revival of the village archery led by scholars showed a unique style that was different from the rules of the court,and to some extent returned to the"advance and retreat" of the "village Archery" in the "Yili·Village Archery".Throughout the development course of the village archery in the Ming Dynasty,it shows the characteristics of "its rise and its fall".After a brief revival,the village Archery of the Ming Dynasty fell into decline in the middle of the Ming Dynasty,which is reflected in the local records of the abandoned and occupied area of the archery during this period.However,after Chenghua,Hongzhi,Zhengde and Jiajing periods,Xiangshou ritual began to revive again.The reason should be related to the retro movement of Confucian classics in Ming Dynasty,which can be seen as a reaction to the retro movement in the Confucian classics ceremony.During this period,the revival of archery in Shangxiang was mainly carried out by local officials with scholars as the main body,which was a concrete embodiment of the active participation of the "scholars" class in the Confucian classics retro movement.At this point,we can see a clear development vein from the local Chronicles of the Ming Dynasty recorded in the case of the fire garden Xing waste.In conclusion,this paper will do a preliminary study on the Ming Dynasty from multiple dimensions,in order to supplement the research in related fields.