The Study On The Rites Of Sacrifice In Jin Dynasty

Occupied the north areas of China for nearly 200 years, the Jin dynasty not alsoinherited the central plains dynasty's rites of sacrifice but also formed its unique ritualsystem, which together with the Southern Song Dynasty developed Chinese rites. Upto the present, scholars paid little attention to the rites of Jin dynasty, however, it is notexaggerate to say that the rites of Sacrifice take an important part in the rites of adynasty. As for this, the thesis would give a comprehensive investigation to the rites ofsacrifice in Jin dynasty, in this research, it would focus on the rites of suburb, thetemples of ancestors, the temple of god and land, the temple of Confucius and so on.Moreover it would take the characters of rites of sacrifice in Jin dynasty intoconsideration and bring the traditional rites of Jurchen(女真)discussion.Besides the introduction, the thesis mainly divided into six chapters. The firstchapter clarifies the course of rites'evolution and its development in Jin dynasty, thiscourse consists of three stages, the initial stage is in the earlier days of Jin dynasty, thedevelopment stage is in the middle age of Jin dynasty and the last days of Jin dynastycontributed to its decline. Furthermore, it gives an overall evolution of rites of sacrificein Jin dynasty and points out the crucial stages and key events.The second chapter discusses the rites of sacrifice to the god. On the ethicaldistinguishing feature extremely popular and engaging manner of worship ceremony,the Jin Dynasty Jurchen traditional Asahi, worship days and Chinese rural day threeworship ceremony into a sacrificial system, research, corrected some scholars on the"did not adopt the Han worship ritual" wrong understanding, pointed out the JinDynasty not only inherited the Chinese worship ceremony, but also in the main section,often in Tang and Song Dynasty more than straight bearing ceremony, this is thesacrificial ceremony of a notable feature.The third chapter basically confined to the study of sacrifice to the god ofimperial territory on the earth mound, the god of forest and mountain. Some scholarsbelieve that the corrected current without North of the city to the suburbs Hill offeringto ceremony wrong understanding, test the Qing Jin a standardized North of the city to the suburbs ceremony; in the academic circles have made on the basis of the results, hefound and corrected <Scroll of Rites in Jin Dynasty > in several historical error; inaddition, the author of the cult of Changbai Mountain special in the Jin Dynasty, theChangbai Mountain cult specifications long Five Sacred Mountains conclusion.The fourth chapter discusses the sacrifice of the imperial ancestral temple. In theroyal temple cult part of history, lack of details of the Jin Dynasty temple for specificresearch, analysis, put forward the basic implementation of the" seven temple is underthe name of" etiquette" Seven generations Temple" point of view, and points out thatthe emperor on the central ritual not all copy, but according to the actual needs of"feelings towards make a gift", the Imperial Ancestral Temple system has alsoappeared in Eight generations The twelve rooms(八世十二室); clear the originalTemple, the system origin and the difference between the two, and the original templesystem for a specific test is, that the" Temple" is different from" ancestral Temple", theoriginal temple is a temple on the a royal ancestral temple system, and the ImperialAncestral Temple together constitute the Jin Dynasty sacrificial system, in twoemperor advocate Filial Doctrine in ruling the world political culture, plays animportant role in.The fifth chapter explains the sacrifice to the temple of parting emperors', templeof king of military's and especially discusses the sacrifice to the temple of Confucius.The author considers that it is very important for Jin Dynasty to carry out the policy ofConfucianism in the uncivilized region, it not only contributes to build the ideal ritessystem but also accelerates the development of north-China.The sixth chapter, in the first place, the author analyses the supervision and thefunction of rites of sacrifice, discusses the functions of Ministry of Rites and theofficial who controls ritual, moreover the author will give a brief introduction to theelection of officials who control ritual. In the second place, the author analyses theeffect of rites in systematic concept and concrete practice, narrates the emperors'policies on educating the common people as well as punishment to the convict in thecourse of strengthen his authority.To sums up, in order to make a full understand to the rites of sacrifice in Jindynasty, this thesis reviews the origins of ritual thoughts, summarizes its'benefits anddrawbacks, analyses its'actual effects, makes a thorough inquiry to its'spiritualessence. The author belief that the thesis would made a concise understand to theIV evolution of rites of sacrifice in Jin dynasty and give a comprehensive knowledgeabout the society in this period, what's more, it would be helpful for us to investigatethe historical development of civilization in north-China in the field of rites ofsacrifice.