“Deity re-ghost” is the Shang important feature of theocracy, but also to uphold the rule of the Shang rulers thought the link at the same time affected the cultural and artistic creation. Shang bronze objects in a square shape and businessmen in the worship of spirits when the pursuit of a solemn, sacred atmosphere suited to bionic totem animal model may be a relict of God, or the ritual sacrifice, and sacrifice function for style and combination of objects, have demonstrated a strong worship God thinking. This bronze sculpture is a liquor container from the early Western Zhou Dynasty (approximately 1100BC -771BC). Shang bronze sculpture in the decorative patterns, sculptural decoration and inscriptions, their primary purpose is to worship the gods of their ancestors services, reflecting the mysterious, strange style feature, which is also thinking of Shang Tsung materialized embodiment of God. Keywords: Shang; bronze statue; shape; decoration; worship God thinking Nanyang, Henan, Zhengzhou Institute of Light Industry College of Art and Design lecturer, PhD in history, mainly engaged in the art archaeological research.
First, “revere heavy ghost” is a businessman and major ideological literature, Xia Dynasty, Xia Jie is no way, deserted, Shang Tang took the opportunity to cents as the base, four expansion conquest, eleven signs and invincible, and finally destroy the Xia Dynasty and established the Shang Dynasty. The chinese bronze sculpture is unearthed in 1980 in Tomb No.7 of Zhuyuangou, Baoji City, Shaanxi Province. Shang rulers, while its dominant position as the apotheosis of the legitimacy of claims made but its dominance of the “orders from the days of” divine right of kings “, then” affairs of state, in worship, and military, “worship the gods, ancestors, as its top event, which in the “Book of Rites? token” also reads: “Yin deity, the rate of in order to do God first and then a ghost ceremony; first penalty and then reward, respect and not pro.
The people of the disadvantages, swing and not static, wins and shameless. “Therefore,” revere heavy ghost “is a businessman and an important feature of social thought. Businessman” deity re-ghost “of ideological beliefs is also a prehistoric society” animism, “the concept of inherited, but the strengthening of authoritarian rule as the slave, merchants of many gods had made the choice, give up and recycling. The bronze dragon sculpture is now in the collection of the Municipal Museum of Baoji City. Yin Ruins bones speech in ritual inscriptions prove, awe and worship of Shang rulers are many spirits, according to scholars’ research, there are merchants of the supreme god – God, there is day, month, wind, rain, clouds, thunder and other natural God, there is emperor, Xian Gong, kings, and other ancestors Xianbi the mouth of God].
Shang and the royal families of the gods be extremely frequent, complex ritual, according to Meng Received Date :2009-12-25? home study inscriptions in the festival name has reached more than 30. Kunio Japanese scholar Island nearly 200 kinds of statistics. The Bo Ge vessel bronze sculpture is oblate with shanting shoulder and high loop handle. Visible fanatical reverence the spirits business. businessman ” deity re-ghost “thought mainly in the supernatural order of integration and arrangements were made to form a political order and its corresponding number of ghost, according to research and analysis Leaving, businessmen from the position and form of worship, such as the mysterious power of the mind day, month.
Wind, rain, clouds, thunder and other natural gods and Xian Gong, kings, and other ancestors Xianbi were made of the order of arrangement of God, and worship and divination rituals in the formation of knowledge systems in the order of the mouth]. The bronze sculpture statue has a straight neck a bulging belly and a round foot. In the business of polytheism, God is supreme, and have great authority, he was in charge of natural celestial phenomena, good and bad fortune to fall, so the human rulers of divination through frequent activities of the media and the fantasy of many names of worship, prayer god , to show, ghost, for God’s protecting, but merchants do their secular arrangements, it is also the king and people, have to day, month, wind, rain messenger of God for its workers Ting-chen, which is actually a reflection of human slavery dynasty to rule the shadow of the sky.
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