A Study On The Prayers In The Bamboo Slips And Silk Documents Of The Warring States Period,the Qin And Han Dynasties

The prayer was born in ancient times.It is the word of praying to God when the ancestors prayed for blessings and disasters.With the continuous discovery of unearthed documents,a considerable number of prayers have been found in the bamboo and silk documents of the Warring States period,Qin and Han Dynasties,which makes up for the deficiency of handed down documents and is conducive to a further understanding of the style of prayers.Based on the prayers of bamboo and silk documents in the Warring States period,Qin and Han Dynasties,this paper studies its background,classification,formal characteristics,similarity and value with Pre-Qin poetry from point to surface.This paper is mainly divided into three parts: introduction,body and conclusion,of which the body has five chapters.The introduction first defines the concept,rise and prosperity of the prayer,then combs and summarizes the research status of the prayer,introduces the main framework of the paper,and finally points out the research purpose and significance,research methods and innovation of the paper.Body Part:the first chapter mainly discusses the time background of the prayers in the bamboo slips and silk documents of the Warring States,the Qin and Han dynasties,and the influence of war,medical treatment,technology,primitive cognition and the ceremony of The Witch and The Zhu,during the Warring States period and the Qin and Han dynasties,prayers began to flourish.The second chapter mainly classifies the praying words of bamboo and silk documents in the Warring States period,Qin and Han Dynasties.According to the purpose of praying,it can be divided into disaster category and auspicious category,and makes a more detailed division of the specific objects of praying.The third chapter mainly analyzes the formal characteristics of the prayer in the bamboo and silk documents of the Warring States period,Qin and Han Dynasties.The prayer is mainly verbal,combined with prose rhyme and good use of tautology,which belongs to a unique prose style.The use of rhetorical devices such as metaphor and parallelism enhances the literary and artistic effect of the prayer.The fourth chapter mainly discusses the relationship between the prayer of bamboo and silk documents in the Warring States period,Qin and Han Dynasties and the Book of Songs and Chu Ci,which shows that there is a close relationship between the early blessing and prayer and the poetry of the Pre-Qin Dynasty.The fifth chapter mainly discusses the literary and social value of bamboo and silk documents in the Warring States period,Qin and Han Dynasties,The prayers of bamboo and silk documents in the Warring States period,Qin and Han dynasties have a certain supporting effect on the statements of "literature originates from The Witch and The Zhu " and "poetry expresses ambition" in literature,at the same time,this style of prayer was also an inspiration for later literary works on the subject of communication between gods and humans.The epilogue summarizes the whole contents of the thesis and analyzes the shortcomings of the research.