Study On The Daily Use Of Oil In Dunhuang Of Tang And Five Dynasties And Early Song Dynasty

A large number of medieval documents found in the Mogao Grottoes of Dunhuang relate to various records of oil in the Tang and The Five Dynasties and the early Song Dynasty.Through sorting out the documents of Dunhuang,it can be known that the oil in Dunhuang in the tang and Five Dynasties and the early Song Dynasty includes jute,sesame seed,red blue and ghee.The oil processing in Dunhuang in the Tang and The Five Dynasties and the early Song dynasty was mainly carried out in the oil beam.The oil beam was self-run by the temple During the reign of Tibetan.The temple households were mainly responsible for the oil storage.During the period of Return-to-Allegiance Army,oil beam became an operation mode of outsourcing,and there appeared a group of beam tenants who had to pay a certain amount of beam course to the temple every year as the cost of renting oil beam.The daily living oil in Dunhuang in the Tang and The Five Dynasties and the early Song dynasty was mainly reflected in the secular society,the monasteries and the medicine.The dunhuang documents have a wide range of records on daily oil use,which are mainly found in the receipts and payments of the Yomen,monasteries and social organizations of the Return-to-Allegiance Army,as well as some records in dunhuang medical documents.All kinds of oils in Dunhuang are mainly used for hosting envoys and monks in the government offices,for folk god games,for burning lanterns in monasteries,for Buddha food,for funerals and so on.Through the study of dunhuang daily living oil,it fully reveals various categories of dunhuang social material production and life and the wide world of spiritual life.Dunhuang documents of tang,Five Dynasties and early Song dynasty are direct records of production and life,providing the most primitive and precious materials about dunhuang's daily life.The research on this topic can fully reveal the importance of oil in the daily life of the people in Dunhuang temple in the middle Ancient times,understand the real social life scene at that time,and also provide relevant research reference for the academic circle.