Worshipping States And State Worship

The research of Chinese civilization and the origin of early national mechanism is one major subject about the process of china's ancient civilization. This paper mainly sets forth such a theory model: "worshipping states", based on which, we study china early national development process, worship activities, unique functions of the worship organizations, and the historically evolving process from the unit of worshipping states to typical mature state.First all, this paper point out that the blood relationship contains a kind of God fate relationships. The God fate relationship is the social infrastructure and power mechanisms of the formation and development of "worshipping states". Liangzhu culture and Hongshang culture became typical "worshipping states" because of their full development of their God fate relationships.Central plains region's "civilized integration" process is the further development of relations of God fate relationship. Zhuanxu created the reformation of the established worshipping counties of the commonwealth of God is the essence of the two- tier system of God-civil, the system of "civil service" have become royalty prerequisite and the basis of exists. The inherent contradiction between God and civil eventually led to the collapse of xia Dynasty.Since Panggeng moved to yin , the independent worship status of King Shang family had established,yin-ruins became the center of worship and the communities link, royalty forces though the control activities of dynasty-worship become one role...