How to understand China's traditional sacrificial culture?

If you want to know the traditional sacrificial culture in China, you can know the origin, objects, types, places and festivals of sacrificial ceremonies.

The origin of sacrifice? Sacrifice? It means to worship, pray and worship ancestors. In ancient times, people thought that the human soul could leave the body. The initial sacrificial activities were very simple. People make statues out of bamboo or clay, or draw images of the sun, moon, stars and wild animals on rocks as accessories, and then display food and sacrifices in front of the statues. The host prayed and the worshippers sang and danced to the gods. After entering civilized society, with material,

? The object of sacrifice mainly refers to gods, and the appearance of gods has a development process. Ancient people believed that after death, the soul would have a supernatural ability, not only to communicate with the living in dreams, but also to make the living sick or suffer disasters. This fear of the gods is an important factor in offering sacrifices.

People divide many gods into gods, ghosts and earth. The gods in the sky mainly include God, Sun God, Moon God, Star God, Raytheon, Rain God and Fengyun God.

There are mainly social gods, mountain gods, water gods, stone gods, fire gods and animal and plant gods, which originated from the earth and are closely related to human survival.

There are many kinds of gods in the human world, including ancestor gods, sage gods, industry gods and daily utensils gods, which are directly related to people's daily life.

When offering sacrifices to the gods, you must give gifts. People can bow down and kowtow to the gods, burn incense and paper, but the most direct way to worship the gods is to sacrifice.

Food, the initial sacrifice is mainly to worship food. Jade, the jade god pays attention to clothing and accessories, so jade is indispensable in sacrifice. Man, offer man as a sacrifice to God, as the ancient book says? Employing people? , later said? Human sacrifice? This is the darkest stroke in the history of religion. ? Blood, blood is a special sacrifice. ? The place of sacrifice is relatively flat, so you can sweep a flat land for sacrifice. The ancients called it? Huh? . The altar is made of mud and stone, which is higher than the ground. Flat pit, dig a big flat pit on the ground as an altar. What did the ancients call it? Hey? . A palace temple built on the basis of an altar or mound becomes a palace; After the sacrifice was displayed in the palace, it became? Temple? . Grave robbing and offering sacrifices to the gods in the cemetery is a primitive and simple method, which is mostly used to offer sacrifices to ancestors. The ancients believed that ancestors could hear the sacrifices closest to their ancestors. Online sacrifice, building a memorial hall for the dead online, is a modern civilized way of sacrifice, which is not limited by geographical time and space. ? Tomb-Sweeping Day is an important festival of the ritual in the lunar calendar, which is suitable for maintaining graves, and ancestors are often sacrificed on this day.

The fifth day of May: This is a traditional festival in China-Dragon Boat Festival. On this day, people also offer sacrifices to their ancestors.

June 19: Guanyin Bodhisattva becomes a monk, and there is a folk custom of worshipping Guanyin for help.

July 15: Ghost Festival, a festival to liberate the soul.

July 30th: The birthday of the Tibetan Bodhisattva will help all those who do good.

The first day of October: there is a custom of sending cold clothes among the people.

1 1 month 17: On this day, there are prayers for the dead beyond the Buddha.

1February 23rd: commonly known as off-year, it is a day to celebrate the Spring Festival.