Research On The Eastern Han Dynasty Temple

Living in the new era of ancestral temple buildings and related ancestral temple rituals has gradually faded out of daily sight.It is inevitable that the history of ancestral temples in China is traced back through the documentation and archeological findings.The most important point is that it is not impossible to understand the literal meaning of"the great thing of the country lies in worship and war",but it is difficult to truly understand the position,function and changes of the ancestral temple in the entire ancient society,not to mention being able to give a fair review.For contemporary people who rely on science and technology for development rather than relying on blessings in ancestral temples to seek blessings,it is necessary to give corresponding attention and interpretation to ancient Chinese,especially the ancestral temples of ancient emperors.This thesis focuses on The Ancestral Temple system in the Eastern Han Dynasty.Eastern Han Dynasty was a period of development and evolution of the ancient Chinese ancestral temple system.It inherited the seven ancestral temple system of the Western Han Dynasty,and started the architectural pattern of the ancestral temple with different halls in the Wei and Jin dynasties.The ancestral temple changed several times in the Eastern Han Dynasty.On the occasion of the Han Dynasty,the separate regimes competed to worship the Western Han Dynasty temple for the legitimacy of their own regime;Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu set up a high temple in Luoyang,the capital,and worshiped the emperors and gods of the Western Han Dynasty by means of joint offerings to advertise the orthodox status of his own political power.The four-parent temple built for the biological ancestors and fathers was deposed by Zhang Chun and others on the grounds of violating Zhou Li,which reduced the enthusiasm of Emperor Guangwu's construction and sacrifice of the temple.In his later years,Liu Xiu implemented the "moving out Empress Lu but moving in Empress Bao" in order to prevent the tyranny of the foreign princes and to establish the foundation for the successful heirship of Prince Liu Zhuang,replacing the posthumous Liu Bao with the empress dowager.In short,the question of the temple of Emperor Guangwu was closely related to the political needs of the Eastern Han Dynasty from the founding to the founding of the country;The Period of Emperor Ming,Zhang and He had formed the"common hall and different room" ancestral temple construction pattern,and the ancestral temple destruction system was abolished;after Emperor An and Sun,the ancestral temple sacrifice went down in the national sacrifice,and their status was gradually replaced by the mausoleum sacrifices,but the tomb sacrifice was flourishing.In the period of Emperor Xian,Emperors tried to save the life of the Eastern Han Dynasty by implementing the destruction of Temple and restoring seven temple system,but this sense of self-saving in the last years of the dynasty was no use in the context of the impending Han Dynasty.It was undeniable that the Eastern Han ancestral temple system had a profound impact on the descendant ancestral temples.The differences of the ancestral temple system in different historical periods of the Eastern Han Dynasty seemed to be a matter of etiquette.In fact,they were closely related to the politics,economy,culture,etiquette and even the identity of the emperor in different historical periods of the Eastern Han Dynasty.They also reflected the Changes in the political situation of the Eastern Han Dynasty.Changing situation.The overall trend of the development of the Eastern Han Dynasty was the continuous differentiation of the unified central government from local separatist forces.The Eastern Han ancestral temple also realized the metastasis from relying on worshiping high temples,flaunting orthodoxy,and gathering people's hearts to raising intimate by emperor who succeeded as an alien.The political function of ancestral temple weakened gradually with the weakening of the Eastern Han Dynasty.