This dance began with dance for military affairs, and gradually became the dance for grand sacrificial rites.
Folk beliefs exist in the folk legends mainly by means of narrative words of myth's surplus echoes, folk sacrificial rites and historical expression.
Principle of Good Faith, a moral principle in ancient China, evolved from the sacrificial rites in remote antiquity and developed in the assembly activities in Spring-and-Autumn Period.
They engaged in the Taoist sacrificial rites and regimen practices.
These characters were mostly prayers by Shang rulers at divination and sacrificial rites, as well as simple records.
This thesis discusses the nature ofthe society in that period by examining the relics of burning persons alive with the dead and killingpersons in the sacrificial rites at that time.
The sacrificial rites in ancient China have a long history, and their contents are rich and colorful.
The Singing Poems for Dance in Praise of Emperor Wu De s ,Merits and Virtues and the succession and evolution of the sacrificial rites in ancestral temples in the Han Dynasty;
Many of the vessels were inscribed with words describing the slave owner's power, orders, battle achievements, awards and sacrificial rites so his descendants could know about his life.
The person officiating at the sacrificial rites was generally the male head of the household.
This religious reform involved absorbing the Confucian classics, establishing court academician of Confucian classics and reestablishing sacrificial rites of the state, and so on.
