Traditional Chinese State Ritual System of Sacrifice to Mountain and Water Spirits
This book focuses on the traditional Chinese ritual system of sacrifice to mountain and water spirits, a significant but largely overlooked sub-field of Chinse religious studies. This system mainly comprised the five sacred peaks, five strongholds, four seas, and four waterways, and was maintained f...
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| description | This book focuses on the traditional Chinese ritual system of sacrifice to mountain and water spirits, a significant but largely overlooked sub-field of Chinse religious studies. This system mainly comprised the five sacred peaks, five strongholds, four seas, and four waterways, and was maintained for two thousand years in imperial China. As state ritual, it was constructed of by Confucian ritual culture, but in practice, it gradually interacted and integrated with various religious traditions, such as Daoism, Buddhism, and folk belief, especially in its local manifestation and dissemination. The eighteen great mountains and waters marked geographical and directional borders and territories modelled on the yin-yang and five-phase framework that helped shape Chinese people’s cosmographical understanding of the world. Together, they constituted a set of sacred spaces symbolizing the sanctioned political legitimacy of the imperium and functioning as the loca for communication with the divine, as well as the media between religion and its secular context, state ideology and local beliefs, or various ethnic groups. Through the discovery of a rich variety of historical sources, especially stele inscriptions preserved in the sacrificial temples, the contributors of the ten chapters in this volume examine the sacred peaks, strongholds, seas, and waterways respectively. While each of the chapters explores one or more perspectives, together they reveal the rich implications and ramification of the ritual system and present the first comprehensive study of this sub-field. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-958662024-04-08T19:53:39Z Traditional Chinese State Ritual System of Sacrifice to Mountain and Water Spirits Jia, Jinhua five sacred peaks five strongholds four seas four waterways state ritual system of sacrifice Chinese religion Chinese historical geography South Sea God state sacrificial ritual Zhang Jiuling Zhang Jiuzhang Zhang Jiugao Tang dynasty Buddhism Mount Yi Eastern Stronghold Temple state sacrifice Daoism Complete Perfection Daoism early Chinese poetry medieval Chinese poetry rivers fu (rhapsody) Milky Way noble titles mountain and water spirits Tang era Mount Yiwulü Northern Stronghold Beizhen ethnic minority in northern China legitimacy of political regime the Yangzi River water spirits official sacrifice codes of state ritual imperial power Tang China Sima Chengzhen shrines for the perfected lords of the five sacred peaks sacred river Jidu state ritual system political legitimacy religious practice imperial China the South Sea God sacrificial ritual national god folk god localization bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HR Religion & beliefs thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs This book focuses on the traditional Chinese ritual system of sacrifice to mountain and water spirits, a significant but largely overlooked sub-field of Chinse religious studies. This system mainly comprised the five sacred peaks, five strongholds, four seas, and four waterways, and was maintained for two thousand years in imperial China. As state ritual, it was constructed of by Confucian ritual culture, but in practice, it gradually interacted and integrated with various religious traditions, such as Daoism, Buddhism, and folk belief, especially in its local manifestation and dissemination. The eighteen great mountains and waters marked geographical and directional borders and territories modelled on the yin-yang and five-phase framework that helped shape Chinese people’s cosmographical understanding of the world. Together, they constituted a set of sacred spaces symbolizing the sanctioned political legitimacy of the imperium and functioning as the loca for communication with the divine, as well as the media between religion and its secular context, state ideology and local beliefs, or various ethnic groups. Through the discovery of a rich variety of historical sources, especially stele inscriptions preserved in the sacrificial temples, the contributors of the ten chapters in this volume examine the sacred peaks, strongholds, seas, and waterways respectively. While each of the chapters explores one or more perspectives, together they reveal the rich implications and ramification of the ritual system and present the first comprehensive study of this sub-field. 2023-01-05T12:36:17Z 2023-01-05T12:36:17Z 2022 book ONIX_20230105_9783036558271_95 9783036558271 9783036558288 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/95866 eng image/jpeg Attribution 4.0 International https://mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/6523 https://mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/6523 MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 10.3390/books978-3-0365-5828-8 10.3390/books978-3-0365-5828-8 46cabcaa-dd94-4bfe-87b4-55023c1b36d0 9783036558271 9783036558288 180 Basel open access |
| spellingShingle | five sacred peaks five strongholds four seas four waterways state ritual system of sacrifice Chinese religion Chinese historical geography South Sea God state sacrificial ritual Zhang Jiuling Zhang Jiuzhang Zhang Jiugao Tang dynasty Buddhism Mount Yi Eastern Stronghold Temple state sacrifice Daoism Complete Perfection Daoism early Chinese poetry medieval Chinese poetry rivers fu (rhapsody) Milky Way noble titles mountain and water spirits Tang era Mount Yiwulü Northern Stronghold Beizhen ethnic minority in northern China legitimacy of political regime the Yangzi River water spirits official sacrifice codes of state ritual imperial power Tang China Sima Chengzhen shrines for the perfected lords of the five sacred peaks sacred river Jidu state ritual system political legitimacy religious practice imperial China the South Sea God sacrificial ritual national god folk god localization bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HR Religion & beliefs thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs Traditional Chinese State Ritual System of Sacrifice to Mountain and Water Spirits |
| title | Traditional Chinese State Ritual System of Sacrifice to Mountain and Water Spirits |
| title_full | Traditional Chinese State Ritual System of Sacrifice to Mountain and Water Spirits |
| title_fullStr | Traditional Chinese State Ritual System of Sacrifice to Mountain and Water Spirits |
| title_full_unstemmed | Traditional Chinese State Ritual System of Sacrifice to Mountain and Water Spirits |
| title_short | Traditional Chinese State Ritual System of Sacrifice to Mountain and Water Spirits |
| title_sort | traditional chinese state ritual system of sacrifice to mountain and water spirits |
| topic | five sacred peaks five strongholds four seas four waterways state ritual system of sacrifice Chinese religion Chinese historical geography South Sea God state sacrificial ritual Zhang Jiuling Zhang Jiuzhang Zhang Jiugao Tang dynasty Buddhism Mount Yi Eastern Stronghold Temple state sacrifice Daoism Complete Perfection Daoism early Chinese poetry medieval Chinese poetry rivers fu (rhapsody) Milky Way noble titles mountain and water spirits Tang era Mount Yiwulü Northern Stronghold Beizhen ethnic minority in northern China legitimacy of political regime the Yangzi River water spirits official sacrifice codes of state ritual imperial power Tang China Sima Chengzhen shrines for the perfected lords of the five sacred peaks sacred river Jidu state ritual system political legitimacy religious practice imperial China the South Sea God sacrificial ritual national god folk god localization bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HR Religion & beliefs thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs |
| topic_facet | five sacred peaks five strongholds four seas four waterways state ritual system of sacrifice Chinese religion Chinese historical geography South Sea God state sacrificial ritual Zhang Jiuling Zhang Jiuzhang Zhang Jiugao Tang dynasty Buddhism Mount Yi Eastern Stronghold Temple state sacrifice Daoism Complete Perfection Daoism early Chinese poetry medieval Chinese poetry rivers fu (rhapsody) Milky Way noble titles mountain and water spirits Tang era Mount Yiwulü Northern Stronghold Beizhen ethnic minority in northern China legitimacy of political regime the Yangzi River water spirits official sacrifice codes of state ritual imperial power Tang China Sima Chengzhen shrines for the perfected lords of the five sacred peaks sacred river Jidu state ritual system political legitimacy religious practice imperial China the South Sea God sacrificial ritual national god folk god localization bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HR Religion & beliefs thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs |
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