| The sacrificial poems in “The Book of Songs ”recorded the sacrifices and chants of the gods of heaven and earth and ancestors in the Shang and Zhou Dynasties.They were the silhouettes of social life at that time and the mainstream part of the spiritual culture of the ancestors.This thesis takes the sacrificial objects in the sacrificial poems of “The Book of Songs ”as the main subject of research,and contains four parts to analyze.The first chapter elaborates the research object and origin of this thesis,summarizes the recent research status of the sacrificial object and related topics in “The Book of Songs”,summarizes the problems of recent research,and proposes the direction,method,scope and significance of research.The second chapter comprehensively combs the testable sacrificial objects in the sacrificial poems of “The Book of Songs”,a large number of sacrificial objects are classified according to the “deity”,“earth gods” and “ancestor gods” through the text interpretation and textual examination of the sacrificial objects,so that it summarizes the characteristics of different types of sacrificial objects,and explores the mutual connection between sacrificial objects.The third chapter focuses on the shaping of sacrificial objects of sacrificial poems in “The Book of Songs”.The image of the gods in “The Book of Songs” is the literary image formed by the author’s purposeful choice under the combined action of social history,religious concepts,political thoughts and other factors.There was the image of the deity in the Western Zhou sacrificial poems with both the “Supreme God” and “Zhou national ancestor god”and had the image of the pure “The Morality of King Wen”,the ancestor of King Wen;The image of the majestic advocating military force in “Shang Song”and the image of minister of agriculture under legendary Shun of the original crop in “Lu Song” all reflect the sacrificial psychology and sacrificial demands of people in different periods and different social backgrounds.The fourth chapter is based on the development and understanding of contemporary society,and mainly discusses the thoughts of governing the country and the politics in the sacrificial poems of “The Book of Songs”.The sacrificial poems in “The Book of Songs” are the carols of the ruling class to “Telling the gods with their success”,the records of the implementation of good governance,and the music of national prosperity.The destiny view of self-examination and gratitude reflected in the sacrificial poems of Xi Zhou,the virtue view of self-reliance and good deeds,the people-oriented view of emphasizing agriculture and respecting the virtue are the products of Xi Zhou civilization.It has theoretical and practical reference significance for future generations and even contemporary society. |
