Research Of Shanxi Wheaten Food Offerings In Ming And Qing Dynasties

Sacrifice serves as an important gift for people to sacrifice to the gods,acts as a link for communicating the relationship between man and God,and plays a role in combining the secular world with the sacred world,and plays an indispensable role in the sacrificial activities.wheaten food as an important offering,it is a combination of wheaten food culture and ritual culture,wheaten food offerings is widely used in the food culture circle of the North and has become a unique ritual culture form in the northern region.Especially during the Ming and Qing Dynasties,wheaten food offerings under the influence of various factors have made their use in ceremonial activities the most prosperous stage and have become an important part of the activities in sacrifices to gods and ancestors.And there is still a far-reaching impact on the use of wheaten food offerings in today.Shanxi,as the “hometown of wheaten food”,is the main representative of the pasta culture circle and can clearly reflect the use profile of pasta offerings.Therefore,this article mainly focuses on the pasta food offerings of the Ming and Qing dynasties in Shanxi Province.Through the study of the use of wheaten food offerings in local ritual activities,we can have a deeper understanding of the social culture in Shanxi.The article mainly consists of five parts.The first part is the preface part,which mainly describes the reasons for the topic selection,research significance,research status,research methods and innovation.The second part mainly introduces the origin of wheaten food and its historical development process and distribution scope as a sacrifice.wheaten food offerings originated in the period of the original ancestors.After several thousand years of accumulation and interpretation,it became an important sacrifice in the food rituals and cultural circle of the North,which is mainly represented by the Shanxi region.The third part mainly discusses the general situation of folk sacrifices and the use of wheaten food offerings in the local activities for worshiping gods and ancestors in the Ming and Qing Dynasties in Shanxi.In the Ming and Qing dynasties,where the sacrificial activities in Shanxi were very common,the Shanxi people used a lot of wheaten food offerings for the activities of blasphemy and respecting ancestors to express their respect for the gods and to make of wheaten food offerings with local characteristics appear in the Shanxi region during this period.The fourth part mainly discusses that the wheaten food offerings have become important sacrifices in the sacrificial activities of the Ming and Qing dynasties under the influence of political factors,natural factors,human factors and economic factors.The fifth part mainly introduces the features of the wheaten food offerings in Shanxi during the sacrificial activities,and studies the Shanxi wheaten food culture and its status on the basis of pasta offerings.In short,wheaten food is born because of “food” but it goes beyond the category of “food”.wheaten food contains not only rich folk culture concepts,but also reflects people’s social life in a specific period of time.It has become an important element of sacrificial activities in the Ming and Qing dynasties in Shanxi and is of great value for understanding local wheaten food culture.