Confucian Temple Sacrifice To Their Social Function

Confucian pays close attention to society and reality, the religious does not express strong as Buddhism and Taoism. But as a country and the world of surgery, its advocacy of human relations is a model of governance of the present, people attaches great importance to it. Since the Han Dynasty, Confucianism gradually become the mainstream of Chinese culture.Rulers without exception to the core values of Confucianism as the country's program. Accompanied by an official of the formation of Confucianism, Confucianism is also a revered master of Confucius.Imperial China, Confucian Temple is the most important role in worship of Confucius.After two thousand years of development,Temple worship become a note containing instrument, music, song chapter and dance elements of the scale and integrity of the official ritual and an important part of the State Religion in traditional society.As a comprehensive national ritual, Temple Religions contained a number of subsystems, for example, Confucian temple system, sacrificial system, from the worship system, with a festival system etc.Promulgated by the court unification of these systems and the implementation of the National Temple. Ritual system is a legacy of history and culture, expressed a belief system designers some values of respect and encouragement. Temple as Literature and Religion, the continuous development of comprehensive community are clear to the traditional Confucian culture, and identity respected.In order to worship Confucius, Confucian disciples and many great Confucian scholars were elevated to sainthood and honored in the Confucian Temple by the emperors and royal government.According to the relations and contributes to Confucius, they were divided into three levels. The formation of this system relies on traditional rites and imperial authority. Fundamentally speaking, The system of sacrifice position in Confucius Temple is on behalf of Confucian orthodoxy. But the process from the proposal to there being honored in the Confucius Temple was a long and complex one involving all kinds of academic interpretations and contests in a political context.As Confucius unique social values and cultural status, Authoritarian society adapted to the ancient Chinese culture as an objective demand, becoming the sole representative of cultural authority. Therefore, the core of the Confucian temple of Confucius, from the worship system, Confucius etiquette, dance and other system-building constitutes a cultural authority system of the subject, had a profound impact for Ancient China. As Temple is a religious ritual form of political system, has an important position in national construction, non-ordinary religious worship can not match. It is also the carrier of cultural authority, non-general administrative system can equal. Therefore, the sacrifice to Confucius Temple has a political, social, religious, cultural and other multiple features.