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A Study On God Worship Of The Scholar-officials In The Song Dynasty

Posted on:2015-01-21Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:H T GeFull Text:PDF
GTID:2255330431952165Subject:History of Ancient China
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Song Dynasty was a period of great change both in political and economic deve-lopment in China’s feudal society, and new features of Chinese fold beliefs have be-en presented during this period. As one of the folk belief group of literati, it played a great role in promoting the development of folk beliefs, and their specific behavior in speech and worship of the gods has been well reflected. Literati as a feudal society a-nd the public court bridge, their words and deeds to educate the public and even to the construction of Chinese traditional culture are significant. The literati are the res-earch objects, the paper starts with Hu’s beliefs from the perspective of history,throu-gh a literature review and multi disciplinary approach, it tries to reflect the thinking of the Song Dynasty scholar of worship, and simply explores its significance to edu-cate the public as well as to the traditional Chinese culture.The paper is divided into three parts including an introduction, body and conclu-sion.Introduction, the scope of this article is written first scholar to define groups of regional culture in the study were divided explain the reason and the significance of the topic, review the folk beliefs and beliefs related to Emperor Wu of public research results and the status quo, introduced material sources and research methods.Text is divided into four parts:The first part mainly introduces Hu’s life and its process of apotheosis. Giving an account of Huze’s life, and the merits and demerits of Hu’s life were evaluated; the process of turning from the people into a god were also descryibed.The second part discusses the role of scholar Hu plastic God by God’s people into the process played. This chapter revolves around the literati of huze perfor-mance, character landscaping and Hu are recognized God of miracles, both propag-anda narrative content, thus showing impetus scholar Hu then God faith.The third part is about worship ideas and its significance. By introducing literati specific ritual activities, including Hu’s sacrafacial practices and several other gods of the festival, this chapter reflects the thinking of the literati of worship, and further analyzes the meaning to traditional Chinese people and its culture behind the mechanism.The fourth part discusses the literati produce godly thinking behind mechan-ism. This chapter from the social system, the imperial development, economic, and other aspects of traditional worship development, analyzes the mechanism behind worship.Conclusion part, on the basis of summarizing the full text, briefly scholar bur-eaucrat to civilize people worship god thought and research meaning of Chinese traditional culture.
Keywords/Search Tags:Song dynasty, Literati and officialdom, worship ideas, Huze God
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