The Study Of Taboo In Bamboo Slip And Cloth Piece

The taboo is a negative self-repression for trepidation that come from some mystery or feculent something. As an important part of social convention and belief, taboo had a deep part in society.In the excavated bamboo slips and cloth pieces, there were a large amount of information about taboo,which ,in some degree, reflect social ideology and real life in warring period and qinhan dynasty.In the field of social history, ideology and philology,taboo in bamboo slips and cloth pieces is a important reference. If we can go through these informations to research social history that time, we shall be able to make use of them fully.The thesis draws the outline of taboo in bamboo slips and cloth pieces by triming these informations in LogFile, Menology and Books of Tactics, and anlysize their historical value and social significance.The content can be put as follows:On the basis of analysizing the intension and extension of taboos, the thesis emphasizes their historical meaning and society that they reflected.With best-known philologies and LogFile, we find that taboo had prevailed in warring period and qinhan dynasty, which has a important influence on archons and plebs.The reasons can be put as follows: first, taboo is a reflection of warring hardness;second, taboo is a outcome of Yinyangwuxing.The taboo is important in not only folklore but also history,so we should study it from history view.LogFile was a applied manual that plebs and lower officials judged good or ill luck, the taboo among whom was interrelated closely with daily life.The taboo in daily life included: festival taboo, orientation taboo and behavior taboo. Festival taboos manifest in many aspects, such as Jianchu taboo,Chinese era taboo,twenty-eight stars taboo, special taboo and divinity-evil taboo, and so on.The thesis expounds them concretely. By contrasting with best-known philology, we find that festival taboo in qinhan dynasty had been mature and self-contained. Orientation taboo combined with year, month and day to form a space-time pattern. LogFile comprise of various of behavior taboos, such as rogation,boarding,birth, espousing, building and repairing,business, slaying, escaping, biting and supping, and so on. Boarding and escaping taboos reflected special class consciousness that time.But, in the long period, many taboos had no chang, which indicated the strong continuing of taboo.Menology was a manual that instructed emperor or monarch in theory, which arranged some grand politics by Yinyangwuxing,that is, regulated what emperor or monarch did every month. Menology taboo fastened on cloth piece in chu kingdom and the rescript of hanging-fountain in DunHuang. The thesis illustrates the character of Menology by analyzing roundly the content of cloth piece in chu kingdom , and then to analyzed the taboo. In content, the rescript of hanging-fountain in DunHuang was accordant with TwelveBiography·LushiSpring, Menology·Etiquette, Shizexun·Huainanzi, the excavated philology and best-known philology confirm each other, which is not only in favor of grasping the rescript of hanging-fountain but also correct some deficiencies in best-known philology. Menology taboo had no more actual instruction to real-life. Utilizing the taboo exhibit their interplay between government and peasantry.Martial taboo was a important part of taboo in bamboo slip and cloth piece. On the basis of cloth piece in Mawangdui and books of tactics in Yinqueshan as well as literature,the thesis sets forth Martial taboo from climate, favourable geographical position and personnel'views.Climate includes astronomical phenomena and feast day. Astronomical phenomena comprise of sun and Luna, five-star, comet; feast day comprise of guxu,xianchi,xingde,bingji,huiri in sun taboo and luna taboo. Geographical taboo included ideaistic taboo and actual taboo. Personnel taboo manifest :to some extent,people at that time revere the warfare; both sides in warfare must obey interrelated martial taboo. Martial taboo ,in some degree, restrict both sides in warfare, influence the tactic.In addition, Martial taboo was a tool to delude and bestir soldiers.The study of martial taboo in bamboo slip and cloth piece enriches and enlarges ancient martial theory.As far as concrete content is concerned, taboo in bamboo slip and cloth piece based on chronometer calend, fable and Yinyangwuxing, which manifested the fashion and level that man find out nature. The taboo is a reflection that comes from society in brain, which contains a lot of real social convention and ideology belief. Taboo in bamboo slip and cloth piece was favorable to study the society in warring period and qinhan dynasty, whose true value lies on it.