《吕氏春秋》反映的先秦宗教信仰-中国古代文学专业论文.docxVIP

PAGE IV PAGE IV 万方数据 Abstract Lv’s Commentaries of History blends the hundred schools of thought into one book, it is an encyclopaedia with a large system contains rich contents include three parts. Firstly, we should make sure that the main content of Lv’s Commentaries of History is not the religious belief, and it is a book full of rational spirit on the basis of blends the thought of the hundred schools. However, it keeps a lot of historical records about ancient Chinese religions in pre-Qin period unwittingly: the first part builds a religious system, the system contains 12 articles, they enumerate all worship ceremonies of the year and classify them as 12 chapters according to the months. In addition, the rest of the articles of Lv’s Commentaries of History also keep lots of information about ancient Chinese religions in pre-Qin period. In consideration of the complexity of Lv’s Commentaries of History, therefore, the paper will analyze and expound the ancient Chinese religions in pre-Qin period mentioned in Lv’s Commentaries of History on the basis of classifying these information, The paper will expound by three parts: the first part is about the religions and worship ceremonies mentioned in the 12 articles, they were guided by two standards: the harmony between the earth and sky and Five Virtue ’s cycle. The religions and worship ceremonies mentioned in the 12 articles reflect the national religious belief in ancient China, so the second part will integrate and analyze them from four chapters detailedly: the worship fo r God, Ancestry Worship, Natural Worship and the Worship for the Four Spiritual Creatures, and the Ancient Minority’s Worship. The first chapter deals mainly with the worship for God, also the supreme god. The supreme god was called as “God” in Shang dynasty and was called as “Heaven” in Zhou dynasty, the two names were combined together in Lv’s Commentaries of History. The second chapter is about the ancestry worship reflected in Lv’s Comme