Explanation Of Religious Philosophy In "The Book Of Songs·Song Of Zhou"

The original religious thought of a nation often constitutes the source of its philosophy.As a textual carrier that conveys and records Zhou tribe's ritual culture,Hymns of Zhou,Classic of Poetry contains a wealth of religious philosophical thoughts,including the exploration of human-day relations and the search for social order.Therefore,Hymns of Zhou,Classic of Poetry has very important place in the history of philosophy,but systematic philosophical have not been constructed in the academic area.From perspective of philosophy,this paper uses the method of double evidence law and religious phenomenology research methods.This thesis mainly have researched the religious ideas of the "DIji"(the relationship between human beings and God),God,heaven and rite-music,and reveals the structural system and logical connection between them.Under the historical changing background from Yin dynasty to Zhou dynasty,this thesis is going to reveal that Zhou tribe created the “DiJi” ceremony to worship God under the graces of their ancestor's agricultural morality.What's more,in the form of ritual and music,they presented all the producing procedure on the temple for education and inheritance.On the basis of “a thousand acres of land”,Zhou tribe established the “five services system” which is common belief circle of God from core area of Chinese culture to the barbarians areas.In the history course of Yin-Zhou's change and revolution,Zhou tribe transformed the common belief God from the "ghost" of the Yin tribe to the God of moral will,and then to the soundless and odorless Heaven.The Zhou tribe regarded the victory of defeating Shang tribe as the appearance of the destiny.Behind the military conquest is the obedience and awe of the heaven.As the result of making rites and music at the beginning of Zhou Dynasty,Hymns of Zhou is not only a way for the Zhou tribe to educate in religion by presenting ritual and musical environment.It is also the channel for them to recognize the Heaven.Zhou Tribe's later generations were immersed in the ceremonies through the cultus,and retrospected their ancestral entrepreneurial journey with a religious experience to witness the sacred moments of great morality from their ancestors and Heaven.From the perspective of epistemology,the occurrence of this sacred realm is closely related to imagery thinking,and this way of thinking has always coexisted with rational logical thinking.Except religious experience,it is now more embodied in the aesthetic acts and creation of arts.It is the path for human to achieve “beauty”.