The Mode Of Love In Shijing And The System And Custom Of Zhou Dynasty

Some works in Shijing writed about the men and women's get-together in spring and autumn, which reflected the real state and social prevailing custom of how the young people got acquainted and got in love with each other. It also composed of a beautiful scene in the history of China's love literature. It was the agricultural civilization, worship of deities and some related celebration or ceremony of Zhou dynasty that had a closed relationship with this phenomena.The place where this get-together took place were the temper of She, the bank of river and the east gate of city .They were the important arena where people of Zhou dynasty held their memorial ceremony for She, Fuxin and the Sun.The nation of Zhou was the earliest agricultural nation in history , however , because of the limited ability about knowing, they often used the memorial ceremony for the deity of the earth , which they named it as She, to pray for good harvesting.And at the same time to pray for having more descendants. What was the adoration for human'srepreduction showed in lives was the method of having water wash in order to beg more children, which they called it as Fuxi. Every year at this time ,people got together at the bank of river ,after having finished a series of memorial ceremony they began to pay court to one another .In addition ,in the lasting production practice,the human beings of Zhou recognized that the sun played a very important role to the corps growth and human's living increasingly. So they regarded the Sun deity as the most prevailing deity and this was why the memorial ceremony for the Sun at the city's east gate was so grand.As a result ,this place became another site for the men and women's get-together.The time when this get-together took place was in spring and autumn, which were the beginning and the coming ending concerning with people's outdoor livies.In detail,it was a period of time when the day time was about equal to the night time.The get-together would be more flourishing especially in spring.The spring and autumn was a season in which the ancient people sowed and harvested crops,and it also a season they sowed and harvested their love.