The Research Of The Burial-day In Shang To Han Dynasty

The principle of burial-day of The Ch'in and Han dynasty consisted in the bamboo slips just a part of the hole system of the early Chinese.From the Shang and Chow dynasty,the system has been experienced a certain inheritance and evolution, formed a close and complicated one.The Kings and Nobles used a form named Jih-ming(日名)to record their burial-day in Shang time.And the people in Chow dynasty inherited their traditions.In the Spring and Fall time,we could find the Kings and Dukes'burial-day in the book of Tso-Chuan(《左傳》)And then,form Warring states to Han, several kinds of divination mostly appeared and made a complete system. Among them, Ts'ung-ch'en(叢辰)and Chien-ch'u(建除)were the two famous factions.