Formation of the Traditional Chinese State Ritual System of Sacrifice to Mountain and Water Spirits
Sacrifice to mountain and water spirits was already a state ritual in the earliest dynasties of China, which later gradually formed a system of five sacred peaks, five strongholds, four seas, and four waterways, which was mainly constructed by the Confucian ritual culture. A number of modern scholar...
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2021
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Religions
Year: 2021, Volume: 12, Issue: 5 |
Further subjects: | B
four waterways
B state ritual system of sacrifice B five strongholds B Chinese historical geography B five sacred peaks B Chinese religion B four seas |
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