Study On Huizhou Ancestral Temple Worship Statute In Ming And Qing Dynasty

As a model for traditional Chinese society, the ancient Huizhou region has always attaches great importance to the respect and worship of ancestors. Ancestor worship activities is very prosperous since Song and Yuan Dynasty, specially national sacrifice ritual reform after the middle period of Ming Dynasty, Huizhou region started building the temple of ancestor worship, ancestral temple worship to become the dominant form of later generations sacrifice to ancestors. Therefore Huizhou clan inscribe the ancestral temple worship statute on the clan genealogy in the form of text, restrain ethnic behavior of worship, standardize the serious ritual activities, strengthen the internal control of the clan. This paper carries out a systemic research on Huizhou ancestral temple worship statute by using a large number of Huizhou clan remaining genealogical materials, combined with source materials,such as local gazetteers, Huizhou documents, literati writings, since the Ming and Qing Dynasty.This paper is divided into two parts of the introduction and main text, the introduction mainly discusses the selected topic reason and reviewed the comprehensive academic history of the study on Huizhou clan temple worship statute. The main text divides into three chapters, the content as follows:The first chapter, mainly discusses the forming background and the formulation of Huizhou clan temple worship statute:the first section, analyzes the forming background of the temple worship statute, including Huizhou clan society’s big background, the tradition of ancestor worship and the reform of the national worship ritual, Huizhou region worship activities to flourish, and enumerates the "not compliant" phenomenon in the activities. The second section, discusses the formulation of the worship statute. Firstly, the definition for temple worship statute; Secondly, analyzes the main composition of statute. The analysis of main composition in formulating statute. Finally, illustrates the important factors of affecting the temple worship specifications set, which are the rulers of concept, the profound influence of the Zhu Zi’s Family Rites, as well as the rules of inheriting from the native regulations and absorbing his surname.The second chapter is the focus of this article, emphatically analyzes the content and characteristics of the temple worship statute. The first section discusses the specific content of the temple worship statute. Firstly, the daily management of clan ancestral hall, including ancestral temple using management, ancestral temple items management and production management. Secondly, this paper discusses the process of the activity, in accordance with the preparation, worship ritual process, and the after matters to discuss.The second section, the paper analyzes the characteristic of temple worship statute. The Huizhou clan temple worship statute has its own characteristics:specifications all the objects, the adequacy of the statute guaranteed, the seriousness of statute, he interaction of the statute and the law and the improvement of the code to compile.The third chapter expounds the impact of the statute. The first part, analyzes the positive control function of the temple worship statute. The paper analyzes the function of the temple worship activities by the statute firstly, and discusses the statute in strengthening their families on the role of internal control, including strengthen the clan harmony, and gather families together, strengthen their families psychological integration of "filial piety" culture, and strengthen the control of patriarchal clan social order. The second part discusses the negative control effect of the code. First of all, the Huizhou clan temple offerings activities are frequent, taking long, and too complicated, will inevitably lead to the emergence of the tired heart, will also be harmful to the daily social life in Huizhou area. Secondly, the appearance of "Donation to obtain better memorial tablet" in the clan temple worship, if without effectively curbed, the end result is necessarily that the clan friendship weaken and blood relationship of indifference.