Research On Sacrifice To Confucius In The Early Qing Dynasty

In the Confucian society, the sacrifice to Confucius under the government control was given more political culture implications,and it was seen as a spiritual tool to polish politics and foster people. A sacrifice to Confucius not only revealed much attention to Confucius and Confucian ideologies of every Chinese emperor in ancient history, but enhanced sacred features and legalities and rationality of the government at the time through spectacle and regular process. It was a presentation of the culture and institution of Sacrifice Rites and a window to study Chinese Cultural History.As an essential component of Chinese culture, a sacrifice to Confucius in the Early Qing Dynasty has a profound historical reasons and epoch background, reflecting the acceptance and mastery of the Qing governors to Confucius and Confucian ideology. As a result, the search to the developments and activities of a sacrifice to Confucius is just an example on Chinese Rite Culture.After a study of the history of Sacrifice, providing a outline picture of sacrifice to Confucius in the history and summing up the features of national activities before Qing Dynasty, offer a foundation to study sacrifice to Confucius in the early of Qing. In the following writing, there is a research on the reasons, contents, features and political and social impacts of this sacrifice in details.There are four parts in this article. In the first part, there is a description about much attention to sacrifice rites and definition of"the early of Qing Dynasty", and then the history of the sacrifice rites to Confucius was concerned. In this process, the change of Confucianism led to the shift of government sacrifice to Confucius. At the same time, some features of these activities were summed up.In the second part, there is a discussion about historical reasons of sacrifice to Confucius. There are three parts: the impact of the sacrifice heritage, the political request of the early Qing and the recognizing of governors to Confucius at the time.In the third part, there is a research on sacrifice to Confucius in the early of Qing in all aspects, including sacrifice position, activities, variety and ceremonies.In the fourth part, it is a study on the impacts of sacrifice to Confucius on politics of reality, school culture and descendents of Confucius.