A Study Of Holy Festivals And Celebrations In The Song Dynasty

China ancient times the official holiday which the birthday established by emperor is called the saint festival,the Northern Song Dynasty “falls the book from heaven” from really Zong Shiyi for to be called by the establishment official holiday celebrates the festival.The saint festival and celebrates festival starting with the formation,essentially with China emperor for the stable rule,the coordinated society was ancient times contradictory,take the rituals of state world,the enlightened world as item,take the holiday ritual determination about the high and low,clear revealed the imperial impressive and dignified manner by the grand activity as the method related,also benefitted the people the world with emperor,clear revealed the enormous and powerful emperor’s graciousness,carried out the benevolent government,thus the prohibition punishment killed,slaughters,remits the convict,and formed the official etiquette system to concern.The Song Dynasty saint festival and celebrates the festival holiday gradual institution and the legalization,becomes one of Song dynasty rule world powerful tools.Is affected the Ming and Qing Dynasties rulers this all to carry on this way,after official sets up carrying out and the entire society,rules by ritual the Confucianist thought taking advantage of the saint festival rituality seepage justice and humanity,taking advantage of celebrates the festival entertainment to boss around day corporal the human and the common people.Has consolidated the dynasty validity and sacred effectively.Song Dynasty’s saint festival and celebrates the festival,compares in the Tang Dynasty already maturely,this article first in combs in the historical foundation which the Tang Dynasty saint festival appears and forms,further has discussed the Song Dynasty saint festival and celebrates the festival to origin,the development and the correlation etiquette,then discovered the two have the similarities and differences in many aspects,even affected three ethnic minority political power which stood like a tripod with the Northern Song Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty distant,golden,the summer related holiday formulation.The article finally discussed Song Dynasty in order to strengthen the rule,enhancement your instructions,but widely set up the saint festival and celebrates the festival reason,not only this behavior and procedure on objective stable Song Dynasty’s political power,moreover also affected Yuan,bright,the clear some holiday formation and the formulation.In brief,Song Dynasty’s saint festival and celebrates the festival to form and the institution many is emperor strengthens the imperial authority rule to seek the reasonable legitimate basis on the rituals of state,therefore the saint festival and celebrates the festival already to be possible to say is the holiday innovation,also may say is the system innovation,its influence and the significance are profound.