Han Jiao Si Song "and The Period Of Emperor Wu Of Han Jiao Si

Sacrifice took an important part in ancient political life, among which outskirts sacrifice is the most significant of all. As a kind of religious literature, "Ode to Outskirts Sacrifice", written in Han Dynasty, deeply reflected the activity' s etiquette and religious idea of that period. This essay makes a comment on this ode and the situation it described, trying to restore it to real activities in Han Dynasty, so as to find out its epoch features.Firstly, this essay makes a fundamental research on "Ode to Outskirts Sacrifice", in which it inspects and narrates the development of outskirts sacrifice and the creating time and order of each chapter. Then it reaches a conclusion that the formation of this ode is the same to the perfection of this activity. It also indicates that Hanwu Emperor make a few revisions to some chapters of the ode, which had actually existed before his age.Outskirts sacrifice is a kind of religious activity, so its ode must be some religious literature. As follows, the essay will inspect the religious concept of that age through "Old to Outskirts Sacrifice", which fully reflects the ideas of only one god and god-and-man interaction. All the ideas were based on the political ideal of "Five virtues from beginning to the end".Both religious ideas and etiquette system are essential to the study of ode to outskirts sacrifice. In this ode, the etiquette it shows is contradict to that of the Confucian school. The sacrificial ode and rites of this period took new forms that are different from that of the former and the latter. Artificiality of new ode, form of sacrifice at night and the trend of cruise are historical reappearance of new culture and anti-traditional spirit.