What is sacrificial culture? Evolution of sacrifice?

Sacrifice is a traditional ritual of seeking blessings and eliminating disasters from the gods, which is called auspicious ceremony.

In primitive times, people thought that the human soul could exist without the body. Sacrificial handle is a derivative of this concept of soul. The initial sacrificial activities were relatively simple and barbaric. People use bamboo or clay to shape gods' idols, or draw images of gods such as the sun, the moon, stars and beasts on rocks as appendages to worship objects. Then food and other gifts for God are displayed in front of idols, the host prays, and the worshippers sing and dance to God. After entering the civilized society, the abundance of material makes the ceremony more and more complicated, and the sacrifice is more and more exquisite and standardized.

The origin of sacrifice:

The so-called sacrifice stems from totem worship and ancestor worship triggered by the concept of soul. In the primitive society where life is not guaranteed, people often fantasize about getting the support of the object they want by luck. Totem worship is produced on this basis. In addition, * * * in the hard life also makes people believe that the soul of ancestors will bless future generations, so the soul of ancestors is respected as a good spirit by future generations. It is driven by this worship of goodness that sacrifice has naturally become the main means for people to know God.