Research On The Activities Of Praying For Clear Weather In The Song Dynast

Praying for sunshine is a very sacrificial activity which is eliminative of rain disaster along with the evolution of Chinese agricultural civilization.As a product of settled agriculture,praying for sunshine is mostly carried out to protect farming from excessive rainfall.With the deepening of social division of labor,the target of service became diversified in the Song Dynasty.The theme of this article is qing qing,so,the concept of "qing" for some research is a certain basic significance,so first of all,the author discusses the evolution of qing and its fake words.The disaster corresponding to qingqing is the rain disaster.The author narrates the harm caused by excessive rainfall in the Song Dynasty society.Besides the traditional understanding,the author also tries to investigate the physical and mental diseases caused by long rain from the micro point.The second chapter studies the evolution of qingqing,from the Shang Dynasty to the song dynasty,the method and characteristics of qingqing to stop rain are briefly summarized.Then enter the main body of this paper--the practice of praying for sunshine in song Dynasty.According to the purpose of praying for sunshine,the song Dynasty can be roughly divided into agricultural praying for sunshine,engineering praying for sunshine,ceremony praying for sunshine,etc.Hence rain has a very wide range of hazards,the participation of the main body is also a lot of praying to shine,I will thank you sunny participants subject classification,divided into qi qing emperor,the rulers of the city qi qing to study,in the song dynasty emperor personally for the number of qi qing is not much,only then,to observe more clearly the characteristics of a few emperor,local officials should be accounted for most of the official qi qing qi shine,Its presider has a high degree of freedom in the choice and manner of the gods.It can not be denied that although praying for sunshine is often seen in the official history and literati’s praying for sunshine,with the influence of folk beliefs and daoism,the characteristics of praying for sunshine in the previous generations gradually faded.So this article details the most not qi qing ceremony,methods,in tang and song dynasty’s qi qing changes and its characteristic performance and the reasons of fading,will be around for a temple,as a set,the rise of incense to discuss,especially with incense as the breakthrough point,to help local understanding of the ancient Chinese to not sacrifice by the house and the altar altar and the house,i.e.the altar offerings to the temple offerings to history.Praying for sunshine was regarded as an irrational factor in the famine.The subjects of praying for sunshine in song Dynasty,especially the emperors and officials,should balance between "virtual" and "real".If they only rely on gods to eliminate the disaster,they would be criticized.