"the Book Of Songs" Ancestral Poetry And Ancestor Worship Ceremony

Sacrificial-offering is one of the important means which get the Chinese nation together. The statment of"the temple for ancestor on the left of palace and the temple for national god on the right"in Rites of Zhou indicates their ancestors were very important to the people of Zhou Dynasty.Such strong feelings also infiltrated in Memorial Poems from The Book of Songs.Memorial Poems from the Book of Songs reflect the sincere worship from descendants to their ancestors' achievements, and the strong desire of blessing from their ancestors, which is a form of ancestor worship.The existence of Rites in the period of The Book of Songs is objective. Outside of the ancestor worship is the Memorial Ceremony.It can be seen that the Memorial Poems from The Book of Songs reflect the content of Memorial Ceremony which existent in that time objectively, specific ceremony of Memorial Ceremony, the grand scenes of Rites in that time.Consequently, Memorial Poems from the Book of Songs have significant value for us to understand ancient Memorial Ceremony more objectively,and interpret the Book of Songs in the background of Rites of Zhou.The reseach for the Book of Songs and Memorial Ceremony focus on three parts.The first part: discussion about the connotation of Sacrificial Offering and the table of contents about Memorial Poems from the Book of Songs.The limits to the Memorial Poems and it's table are chaotic. In this part, the auther according to the characteristic of the Memorial Poems from the book of songs and the meaning of Sacrificial offering,recognized the Memorial Poems from the book of songs which related to the Sacrificial offering, based on the content and function of Memorial Poems from the book of songs.The second part: discussion about the basic content of Memorial Ceremony manifests in the book of songs.The Memorial Ceremony divides into Regular sacrificial offering and Temporary sacrificial offering.In This part, the author unifies books of Rites and other literature, renew the Memorial Ceremony, researches primary intention of Memorial Poems from the Book of Songs based on the system of Memorial Ceremony and the content,to reseach the performance of the system of Memorial Ceremony in Memorial Poems from The Book of Songs.The third part: discussion about general process of Regular sacrificial offering unifies The Book of Songs.Memorial Ceremony for Emperor and Feudal Lord are absence from The Book of Rites System.Memorial Poems from the Book of Songs carries on the description to Memorial Ceremony for Emperor and Feudal Lord by art form, which provide us important material to inspect original condition of Memorial Ceremony for Emperor and Feudal Lord.In this part,the author inquires into the general process of Memorial Ceremony for Emperor and Feudal Lord ,through the explanation of Memorial Ceremony reflected in The Book of Songs,takes The Book of Songs as the main object, Ritual Records and Rites of Zhou and so on the literature, as well as some content of The Book of Rites as reference.