Ritual Poetry. "book Of Songs Study

Sacrifice is always been an important religious activitie of human. There are more than fifty sacring poems in The Books of Songs which is the first collection of chinese poems.The sacring poems in The Books of Songs can help us analysis the sacrificial ceremonies and religious thinking of the Zhou Dynasty socity. The essay focuses on the sacring poems in The Books of Songs, and mainly discusses three aspects include classification and definition of the sacring poems in The Books of Songs, sacrificial ceremonies of the Zhou Dynasty which reflected by the sacring poems in The Books of Songs,religious thinking of the Zhou Dynasty which reflected in the sacring poems in The Books of Songs.In addition to the introduction and conclusion, the article is divided into three chapters.The introduction mainly discusses the previous main research results about the sacring poems in The Books of Songs and research significance of the sacring poems in The Books of Songs.The first chapter is the classification and definition of the sacring poems in The Books of Songs. Classification and definition of the sacring poems in The Books of Songs can be done in broad or narrow sense. This paper choose the broadly definition,so every poems involving sacrifice may be taked about. Modern scholars always different sacrifice according to the sacrificed object, this paper definites the sacring poems in The Books of Songs in the same way. The sacring poems in The Books of Songs are divided into five miscellaneous,the God worship, the ancestor worship, the sajik worship,the mountains worship, and the other.The second chapter analyzes the sacrificial ceremonies of the the Shang and Zhou Dynasty reflected by the sacring poems in The Books of Songs. In The Book of Songs there are six God worship poems which contain five ceremonies. In The Book of Songs, the poems about ancestors worship take the most properity. Ancestral worship poems reflect the stability of the sacrificial ceremonies in Zhou Dynasty. The paper outlines the preparatory work of the Zhou Dynasty ancestor frist,then analysis the general ancestor worship ritual process of the Zhou Dynasty according the ancestral worship poems in The Book of Songs. Ancestor worship poems also refer to a variety of offerings used in ancestral worship sacrificial ceremonies of the Zhou Dynasty which are extremely good.It reflects that the importance of Zhou ancestor worship. Zhou people like to worship mountains and rivers too,but the mountains worship of Zhou Dynasty have clear hierarchy. Sajik worship poems are all concerned with agricultural production.Zhou Wang usually personally involved in Sajik sacrifice, it shows the importance of Sajik worship in Zhou Dynasty.The third chapter analyzes the religious thought of the Zhou Dynasty ritual according the sacring poems in The Books of Songs. Zhou Dynasty inherited the God worship of Xia and Shang Dynasty.Because of the impacting of turbulent history,the king of Zhou Dynasty conclusioned the experiences of the previous Dynasty, actually created a set view of their own destiny including the alwayes changing of destiny, the fearing to God,and the virtue repairing of King Wen. Zhou Dynasty rulers used this concept of fate widely to the upper class,the peoplie of Zhou Dynasty gradually accepted it.The ancest king worship in ancestors have two purposes.The first is filialing piety, The second is praying to the ancestors for good fortune. The king of Zhou Dynasty worship their ancestors according to their virtues and achievements.From The Book of Songs,we can see the mountains and Sajik worship of Zhou Dynasty was somehow out of their natural forces, and there is strongger political and military color with it. This article starts with the sacring poems in The Book of Songs, uses other ancient texts and previous research results, analysis the sacring ceremonies of the Zhou Dynasty and the Zhou people's religious ideas. some conclusions break previous point, hoping to deepen the study of The Book of Songs.