The Preliminary Study Of Worship Sites In Central Plains Of Zhou Dynasty

Sacrificial ceremonies are an important component of Liyue civilization in Zhou Dynasty ." Sacrifice and warship are the country's two major events." We can see that sacrifice plays an important role in the whole society's structure. Many States of the feudal Zhou Dynasty sacrifice have been found and that provides a wealth of materials to a comprehensive study of the meaning of worship,and that make the synthetical research possible and necessary. Sacrifice of zhou dynasty reflected in the form of pits on archaeology sites. The animals and artifacts used in sacrifice ceremony play an important role in cardinal to show the religious philosophy of Zhou dynasty. In this paper, I classified the Sacrificial ceremonies sites of the States based on archaeological materials and historical records, and then divided each of them to groups. And further more ,study the animals and artifacts used in this sort of sites to uncover characteristics of the Zhou to Dynasty ritual, and discuss the evolution of tomb sacrifice ceremony and the rank of Jongmyo state worship in Zhou Dynasty.The thesis is divided into five major parts:Introduction part Illustrate the value of the topics.It is important to social studies of Zhou Dynasty.Have an overview of current research results, and on this basis advance research methods and ideas of this thesis.Chapterâ…¡Describe the archaeological sites found in the Zhou Dynasty, and on this basis make a summary of the characteristics and classification.Chapterâ…¢Discuss the issue of tomb worship which has been argued for thousands of years by archaeological findings. I think it existed in the Zhou Dynasty and began at the time of JIN duke Cemetery.It is a phenomenon before mausoleum and had its own characteristics.Chapterâ…£Systematically list the the combinations of the animals and the kinds of artifacts of the Jongmyo state worship which have plenty of findings.This paper holds the view that this kind of sacrifice had the tradition of using sheep ,cow and horse.In every sacrificial site the combination of sacrificial animals was divided into groups . One group was the result of one sacrifice and in one sacrificial ceremony there were two kinds of cases:one is that the sacrific animals were of the same kind and the other of different kinds.Also, there were two ways of dealing with these animals:sacrifice all the animals and sacrifice part of the animals.The artifacts and animals used in the sacrific sites reflect the hierachical characteristic of the sacrificial ceremonies in Zhou Dynasty.This part is the core of the paper.Chapterâ…¤Besides these two kinds of worship sites,this paper also studys and discusses the house-building and the types of sacrifice such as sacrificial archaic in use and mountain sacrificial archaic and so on.Conclusion part This part concludes the issues and infers disscussed in the text and puts up that the problems and inadequencies existing in the research of sacrificial ceremonies sites are mainly the difficulty to further judge the property of the sites and the enenrgy put in material extract and texting is not enough.