The Influence Of The Rites Of Pilgrimage And Meetings To Form Alliance To The Power's Transition To The Lower Classes

Content: As one of the most important parts of the rite system of Zhou Dynasty, meetings to form alliance and pilgrimages had once done good to maintain the normal hierarchy order, but they took effect only in the proper circumstances. While with the decline of Zhou Dynasty , the power under the kings control, though in the name of rite, meetings to form alliance and pilgrimages lost their original purposes, and such changes resulted in the erosion of the rites directly. Based on the research of the transport line and the regulations of the meetings to form alliance and pilgrimages, this treatise tries to point out that it's one of the basic reasons for the kings to loose their powers, who couldn't adapt to the changes of the time , reform their rule measures and wanted to sustain their regimes by vacuous rites of meetings to form alliance and pilgrimages. During the meetings to form alliance and pilgrimages, to the nobility, they could create their own political web to consolidate their social position and expand political rights in their states, even usurp the throne. Just as coin has two sides, too much meetings to form alliance and pilgrimages left great empty room for the servants in the nobility's family, to some extent, meetings to form alliance and pilgrimages are the necessary conditions for the autocracy of the servant official leader in the nobility's family.