"the Book Of Songs" And The First Week Of Tribal Culture

China's earliest total collection of poetries, the Book of Songs , to which the rulers and the feudal intellectuals from the successive dynasties have paid great attention in the long history, plays a very important role in Chinese literal history.In recent years, the research on the Book of Songs is deepening. The Book of Songs is studied from many new angles such as the culture study, the sociology, the psychology, the cultural anthropology, which leads to a new period of multi-level and multi-aspects research.This paper tries to carry out an overall view on the Book of Songs from the angle of region culture and tribe culture. By the comprehensive understanding of literature, history, philosophy, religion and the folk custom in pre-Qin dynasty, we profoundly explore and state the relation between the Book of Songs and the tribe culture in the dynasty.Zhou Tribe was comparatively early involved in agricultural ploughs. Its culture essentially is the agricultural civilization which is reflected in the epic poems and eulogies in the Book of Songs and was rleated to the worship of the ancestors and God. These constitute the dual subjects of the epic poems and eulogies of Zhou Tribe. The ancient people generally thought people's soul didn't disappear but return to the heaven. This idea has directly affected the constitution of its God system, and also urged the formation of sacrificial culture with a distinctive style. The totemism and the reproduction worship both are importants parts in primitive religion, about which this paper has also made exploration and explanations.In pre-Qin dynasty the courtesy reflectiing the society hierarchical system was becoming more complete. Its diet culture distinctively displays the characteristics of ceremony and rank. The etiquette and the liquor culture gradually melt into in the diet custom. These become the the important symbols and constitutional parts of ancient civilization and the social culture.