The Study On The Sacred Poems Within The Book Of Songs

From the point of view of the broad sense of sacred poems, this dissertation, have a complete view on the sacred poems of The Books of Songs. This dissertation, on the foundation of the full occupancy of the material, combined with the literature sutra of the time of The Book of Songs, its research production of historiography and philosophy, from the point of view of culture, takes a check on the sacred poems, religious ideology, amenity systems, political idea and social structure. The dissertation classifies the sacred poems of The Book of Songs into three kinds, substantially discusses the religious foundation of sacred poems, sacred ceremony during the time of Shang and Zhou. The apotheosis of the "virtue"within the sacrifice for ancestors are important content of the view of the people of Zhou on the fatality, the emphasize on filial piety expresses the basic require of the patriarchal clan system of West Zhou. When address to farming sacred poems ,this article emphasize particularly on the discussion of the sacrifice on the association , agricultural ancestors, and the ceremony of farmland, materialize the people of Zhou's emphasize on the agriculture and rational sense; the sacrifice on the mother earth of the time of Zhou reveals the sense of taking human being as country's root and specially political intention. From these studies, we can find that the adoration of ancestor runs through the most of sacred poems of The Book of Songs, and itself is the product of the adoration of ancestor when it arose at the height of power and splendour. The sacrifice culture of the people of Zhou which take the adoration of ancestor as its mainstream pay particular attention to the needs of reality, possess a practical attitude and rational sense, moreover, the simple language of the sacred poems of The Book of Songs combines with the twinkling rational sense. Through the study on the sacred poems of The Book of Songs, we can realize more clearly the practical spirit and rational colour in Chinese culture. During the time of The Book of Songs, religion had been accommodated into political.