The Study Of Agricultural Sacrifice And The Formation Of Agricultural Poems In The Book Of Songs In Zhou Dynasty

As the first poetry collection in China,the Book of Songs reflects the production and life style in the time of the Book of Songs.The agricultural poems in the Book of Songs provide important reference materials for the study of the agricultural history of the pre-Qin Dynasty.This paper is devoted to exploring the mutual relationship between the sacrificial culture involved in the Book of Songs and agriculture,and holds that in the time of the Book of Songs,agricultural sacrifice,as a spiritual force,had a certain incentive effect on laborers in actual production and life,and could promote the development of agricultural economy at that timeThe first chapter of the introduction,from the "Book of Songs" era of agricultural research and sacrificial studies,as well as the "Book of Songs" in the specific definition of the agricultural poems,three parts of the previous research review,sort out the scholars since the Qin and Han Dynasty on the "book of Songs" of agricultural development in various aspects of the analysis,summed up the Zhou Dynasty agricultural development situation.The research situation of agricultural sacrifice in Zhou Dynasty is summarized.Zhou Dynasty attaches great importance to agricultural sacrifice activity,which is the most important cultural activity of people.The second chapter analyzes the concept of agricultural sacrifice,the historical background and ideological basis of the development of Zhou people’s agricultural sacrifice culture,as well as the differences between Zhou people’s agricultural sacrifice to gods and ancestors and Xia and Shang dynasties after the development of Zhou people,to explore the Zhou people’s dependence on the state and family.The third chapter starts from the agricultural sacrifice custom,which has extended to the whole society at this time.The state attaches great importance to the Ji Tian ceremony,which reflects the state’s attention to the agricultural sacrifice.In addition to the Ji Tian Ceremony in spring,there are other daily agricultural sacrifice activities throughout the year,and these customs have formed the Zhou people’s gentle,peaceful,industrious and optimistic character.The fourth chapter starts from the food of agricultural sacrifice,which directly reflects the agricultural level of a country.It investigates the agricultural sacrifice culture of Zhou Dynasty from the types,characteristics and uses of the food of agricultural sacrifice.The fifth chapter analyzes the thoughts contained in the agricultural sacrifice activities,synthesizes the contents of the previous chapters,and discusses the thoughts of valuing agriculture and simple love for things displayed in the agricultural sacrifice activities,and the inheritance and development of these thoughts by later thinkers.In the end,the paper summarizes the agricultural sacrificial culture formed by Zhou people in the time of the Book of Songs,and elaborates from four aspects: the concept of agricultural sacrifice involved in the Book of Songs,the custom of agricultural sacrifice,the diet of agricultural sacrifice and the agricultural thought reflected by agricultural sacrifice.This paper expounds the urging effect of the cultural activity of agricultural sacrifice on agricultural production and life.And "the Book of Songs" reflected in the agricultural sacrifice of nature,the punctual concept;The influence of agricultural sacrifice Thought on Pre-Qin Confucianism and Taoism;The inheritance and development of the agricultural sacrifice thought in the later Nongshu in order to explore its enlightenment and guiding effect on modern agriculture in China.Under the condition that human’s autonomous initiative is constantly interfering with the natural conditions,does the farming sacrifice culture lose its loneliness? Where is it going in the future? This article will focus on these issues.