英文摘要 |
This article will be Chapter IV in Lun yi li yu jingzhuan suoji di xi a (On grand worship ceremony and di (禘) and xia (祫) ancestor worship as recorded in the classics and their commentaries) by the author. Chapter I of this book has already been published in Zhongguo shi yanjiu (Studies in Chinese history) 2002.1-2002.2. In Chapter I, I have pointed out that the inscriptions on Tianwu gui-bowl (天亡簋) of the early Zhou Dynasty say that after Duke Zhou had become the Regent, he worshipped Heaven first and then offered grand worship ceremony to King Wen. In the poem ''King Wen'' of the Book of Odes, it says: ''When the Yin Dynasty had not yet lost the world, it could cooperate with God.'' Therefore, we know the oracle bone inscriptions failed to record the worship of God before Shang Jia, a late ancestor of the Shang Dynasty. The oracle bone inscriptions recorded that since the time of Shang Jia, after worshipping God, then some people were killed as human sacrifice in the grand worship ceremony (殷). |