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"Sacrifice" (ji4), which is a synaesthetic word.
The oracle bone "sacrifice" character, there are many different ways to write, the first is composed of a hand (again) + a piece of meat + a few small dots in the middle (meaning that the newly slaughtered meat is still glued with a lot of blood), the whole glyph indicates that the ancient ancestors sacrificed fresh meat that had just been slaughtered to the gods of heaven, the ancestors of the Liezong. The second glyph adds a "T" (indicating a sacrificial table or a stone pillar or ancestral tablet at the time of worship), and the third is to replace the "meat" in the first glyph with a "dish" containing a delicious shape.
The word "sacrifice" in the first paragraph of the Golden Text continues the third glyph of the Oracle. In several other glyphs, the word "again" is written as "攴" or "殳", which is why the ancient script is often used in conjunction with the expression of the side.
The small seal inherits the golden glyph, and after the transformation, it is written as "sacrifice".
The original meaning of "sacrifice" is to use fresh meat for the ancestral gods to enjoy.
In the view of the ancestors in ancient times, sacrifice was a very important and sacred thing, and it is recorded in the Zuo Zhuan: "The great affairs of the country are in the worship and the rong." (Meaning: the great affair of the state is to sacrifice and fight against the mighty army.) )
The ancient righteousness of sacrifice was divided into two categories, the Western Han Dynasty. Wang Chong's "On Balance. The "Sacrifice Intention" says: "There are two meanings of sacrifice: one is to repay the merits; The second is to repair the first. The ancients believed that the mountains and rivers of heaven and earth provided rich material conditions for people's survival and life, and the gods and ancestors protected the people to reproduce and live, and the best way to repay the kindness of the ancestors of the gods of heaven and earth was to "sacrifice".
Ancient sacrifice activities were very frequent, and there were many objects of "sacrifice", the ancestors of the gods of heaven and earth were sacrificed, the gods of heaven and earth, the gods, the ancestors, the spring equinox, the summer solstice, the autumn equinox, the winter solstice were all sacrificed, and the stove in the home had the stove god also had to be sacrificed. For example, every year on the twenty-fourth day of the 24th month of the waxing moon, the statue of the vesta god on the stove is "please down" (peeled down), "sent to the heavens" outside the stove (burning the vesta god statue), and then "invited back" the vesta god Chinese New Year's Eve night (paste the new "please" vesta statue on the stove), and a couplet is also posted on both sides, uplink: the heavens say good things, the lower link: the netherworld to ensure peace.
Ancient sacrifices were made in the form of "burning sacrifices, offerings, offerings, and festivals". The so-called "cultivation of the first" refers to the "first examination of the first concubine", they are their own relatives, and their kindness must not be forgotten. Although this deceased relative has gone to another world, they can still swim in the real world, which will bring happiness to the living people, and they will also come to do evil, and for peace and tranquility, they will pray for the blessings of their ancestors in the form of "sacrifice".
The custom of "sacrifice" has been followed for thousands of years, and now people sacrifice martyrs on the "death day" of their relatives, sacrifice the tombs of the martyrs on the Qingming Festival, sacrifice the Tomb of the Yellow Emperor, sacrifice the Temple of Confucius, and the state set up a public festival day.
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