The Study Of Offering Sacrifices To Dead Officials And The Official Ancestral Temple In Ming And Qing Dynasty In Henan Province

The Official Ancestral Temple Located in Confucian Temple School, it is one part of Confucian Temple School.The activity of offering sacrifices to dead officials in Ming and Qing Dynasty belongs to offer sacrifices to ancestors series system., which means country sends government officials to offer sacrifices to dead officials, do sacrificial sheep and pigs gift. The activity helps know and promote tradition national and religious culture. At the same time ,it can also affect national social development.The whole text spreads out exposition with the ancestral hall and the personage two clues, which is divided into four parts totally.Part One discusses the condition of dead officials entering temples. From the influence of offering sacrifices to gods in Ming and Qing Dynasty, find the definition, standard and the development of dead officials, time, program, we know the effect among government,town, village take together to educate farmers, praise Political achievements.Part Two discusses the process of offering sacrifices to dead officials. It describes the etiquette, oblation and hold a memorial ceremony for silver, the scale and location of ancestral temple and so on. We know the effect of Official Ancestral Temple in offering sacrifices to gods in Ming and Qing Dynasty.Part Three takes figures as clue, it mainly discusses the figures' characteristic of Henan region. This part analyses the distribution characteristic. Then analyses the typical example, concluding the similarity and difference in the sphere of nantion-wide general character and property, especially point out Henan is in the innerland of central plains, the situation is important, so the figure fairness is higher . Do not see the situation broke the role, at the same time,other national forms have the general character to melt the role of road the masses. Part Four discusses offering sacrifices to dead officials can have some influence for the country and society. He first gets the national examination policy influence of imperial examination, especially the economic development in South of China.Conclusion part discover clearly the official ancestral temple in Ming and Qing Dynasty has the characteristic that connects with times feature.