The Research Of Ritual Music In 《Zhou Song》

Creation and development of Song is close related with offering sacrifices, The occurrenced time of Song can traces back to a period before the Dynasty of Zhou. It reflects the circumstance of religion before the Dynasty of Zhou. It preciously reflects the thought that the most important national matter is war and offering sacrifices.《Zhou Song》contents the contents of "Five etiquettes", and is the precious reflection to the system of Ritual music.The close contact of religion and politics is the cultural soil of《Zhou Song》. It preciously reflects the religion theology and the political thought. It reflects human pay attention to himself in the thought of nature and ghost man since the dynasty of Yin, and contains abstrusethought of adopt virtue and ritual to manage nation. In dynasty of Zhou, the people regards virtue and ritual as a part of political system. the person of Dynasty of Zhou reform the religion thought in dynasty of Yin with "virtue" , then take it to political realm. As a political system, Ritual music is used to keep social order. "Ritual music" in the《Zhou Song》reflects the thought that it is used to regulate human feelings and manage a society, and implies the different direction of cultural construction from Dynasty of Yin.《Zhou Song》combines the contents of the theology with the political, and has abundant cultural quality.