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Worship. Shang And Zhou Evolution

Posted on:2010-12-24Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:M LinFull Text:PDF
GTID:2205360272499678Subject:History of Ancient China
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"Book entry form" : "Harcourt Road Zun life ghost worship things and well, theneighbor and Zhong Yan......Shang God, the rate of people to things of God first andthen ghost ceremony, the first penalty and then tours......Zhou Shi Zun-li Shang,spirits and well done, the neighbor and Zhong Yan......" . This is the belief of the threegenerations of a comprehensive analysis of worship. Harcourt Road, there is no from the inquiry. However, Shang and Zhou faith worship comparison, Oracle has Yinxu, Zhou original bones, and more literature in the Western Zhou Clementi historical records, to prove this statement is in line with the historical facts.Shang generation in order to "Timor" as a supreme god to worship. "Emperor" have extensive powers, he can dominate the human disease disaster fortune, and the Secretary in charge of natural Fengyun Thunderstorm. With the process of civilization development, productivity level, the universal ancestor worship God then replaced the supremacy of God "Dili" worship of the universal, the concept of Wang gradually clear and prominent. Zhou Dynasty to tiny to small states in one fell swoop grams, the introduction of this family of "Heaven" to be enshrined as the supreme God. In Shang period, God designed decide everything. Shang carry on Zhou and transformed the god worship and ancestor worship tradition, the development as "Mingde Baomin" political ethics and the public Yi Tianci patriarchal morality.In short, the Shang and Zhou faiths worship the forces of nature from society towards the deification of the deification of force, to downplay religious and rational, ethical colors enhanced with theocratic kingship of checks and balances, its appearance after the profound reasons behind. In this paper, the Shang and Zhou dynasties believed in the object placed in the dynamic system to compare the study to show this period, the Shang and Zhou theocratic beliefs and continuation of the dramatic changes.
Keywords/Search Tags:Shang and Zhou, Belief in worship, Supremacy of God, Theocracy, Kingship
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