The Influence Of Religion On Ancient Chinese War

In Ancient China, rulers who use religion are not only easy to rule people, often also in the fierce political struggle, to fight for the political initiative, which can play a role in the war. As a political to continue, religion influences war. As a religion in war mobilization, organization armed uprising, military war psychology, strategy and tactics, and many other fields have broad and profound influence. In Ancient China is a patriarchal society, it also stipulated that the Chinese are the political features of man color is very strong, so the political ethics is also deeply influenced the war view, in war, emphasis on human factors, so the war hero- Mars is very honored. As early as primitive society, through the primitive religion means such as sacrifices to honor god of war, the purpose is to develop good " martial arts " and "ShiZhen",In Tang dynasty formed customization, and Taoism and Buddhism some factions also set up their own god of war, their purpose is their religious interests, but objectively is also a social good " martial arts " and "ShiZhen" beneficial supplement. It is worth mentioning that in the study of the relationship between the folk religion and war is more, in which there are two main types: one is that folk religion is directly related to peasants' revolt; Another described the folk religion association into a cult. Natural not actually folk religion is antisocial, they have the nature of subculture groups, only when the social unrest is violence. with the help of Song Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism in Song dynasty has completed and formed Neo-confucianism, in the philosophical views of unity, also deeply affected the military philosophy,the concept of war on Confucianism Taoism and Buddhism are pursuing Shenwu not to kill view of war, and God has no preference but virtue destiny view them with the transfer of power, a maintenance of the fusion and unity of the Chinese nation has made tremendous contributions.