A Study Of The Offering Sacrifices To The Heaven In The Qin And Han Dynasties

It is formed in the long ancient times for Chinese culture of offering sacrifices tothe Heaven and its basic stereotypes is in the Zhou Dynasty, Qin and Han Dynasties isthe important stage of development.In this paper, "The Book of Rites," "Historical Records ? Fengshan book", "Han ?Jiao Si Chi" and "Later Han ? worship the upper, middle, and lower" as the mainreferences, combined with previous research results, the Festival of the Qin and HanDynasty days were more detail. Article is divided into seven parts, the main contentsare as follows:Part I: Introduction, the main topics of this article based on research topics ofsignificance and the status and shortcomings of previous studies to make a simpleintroduction.Part II: The "offer sacrifices to Heaven" to explain the meaning. Pre Heaven andthe evolution of the gift profile of the recount: that in the Zhou Dynasty, the worshipof heaven has been standardized protocol, procedures, and its Religion, mostlyreflected in the "Yi Li".Part III: The Qin Dynasty's "Zhi" offering to do an in-depth study. Introduced the"Zhi" Festival of origin, research the history of the evolution of object Fiesta, Fiestaetiquette and Zhi's shape.Part IV: The offer of the sacrifices to Heaven Han Dynasty in the country: eachobject from the evolution of the Western Han Jiao Si, Jiaotan formed to discuss andform aspects.Part V: From Emperor Wudi of the ritual, the altar in the shape rural Heaven andritual sacrifice, the article discusses the characteristics of the Eastern Han DynastyHeaven.Section VI: The Sacrifices Culture of the Qin and Han Dynasties other forms,including Fengshan, MingTang ceremony, and the sun, moon, stars and other rituals.Part VII: Heaven during the Qin and Han discussed the political and socialfunctions.