The first king was worried that the religion would not be able to spread to the people, so he sacrificed to the god Haotian in the southern suburbs to show that the status of heaven was supreme; He also sacrificed to the earth god in the country, so as to show the convenience provided by the earth for human survival; and worship their ancestors in the temple, so as to show that their people should love each other; He also sacrificed to the mountains and rivers, so as to show that he would pay homage to the ghosts and gods in the underworld; The five rituals were also held.

In this way, it is shown that all kinds of systems come from this.

Therefore, the Son of Heaven is in the temple, and there are Zongzhu to help him; In the middle of the court, there are three dukes to assist; In Taixue, there are three elders who give advice; By the side of the Son of Heaven, there was a witch in charge of handling divine affairs, and then there was a history of words and deeds, an official in charge of divination, an official in charge of music, and an official in charge of admonition.

Therefore, in the southern suburbs, the gods in the heavens will perform their duties; In the national sacrifice ground, all kinds of resources on the earth can be used; Worship ancestors in the temple, and the way of filial piety will be promoted; When a non-ritual sacrifice is held, the various laws and systems will be observed.

Therefore, the five rituals of sacrificing the heavens and the earth, the ancestors and the mountains and rivers are all revealed with the help of rituals.

(Haotian God is the honorific title of the supreme god Emperor in Chinese mythology, one of the core teachings of Confucianism, the god of Chinese civilization, and has been sacrificed by the imperial court since ancient times.)

In the records of ancient documents, there was already a Haotian God in the period of Yu Shun Xia Yu.

In the oracle bone inscription of Yin Shang, the god Haotian is called the emperor, or God, and he is the lord of nature and the lower kingdom, and he is surrounded by the sun, moon, wind and rain as a messenger of ministers.

The Tang Dynasty politician and historian Du You compiled the "General Dictionary" wrote: The so-called Haotian God, because the vitality is vast is called Haotian, and the far-sighted firmament is called Cangtian, and people respect it without more than the emperor, because the emperor is entrusted to the sky, so it is called God.

(The god Haotian is called Taiyi in Han Dynasty texts, and is the god who rules the universe of heaven and earth, the supreme god of Confucianism, representing heaven or equivalent to heaven.)

In ancient books, it is also called Haotian or God, and this term first appeared in the Book of Shang.

Compared with the sky, Haotian God has a certain personification meaning.

Zheng Xuan, a scholar of the Eastern Han Dynasty, said: God is another name for heaven.

The God here and the God in the Book of Shang both refer to the God of Haotian.

(The word God first appeared in the Confucian Five Classics, namely the Book of Songs, the Book of Songs, the Book of Rituals, the Rites of the Zhou, the Rites of the Rites, and the Records of the Rites↘.)

In addition to this, other Confucian classics such as the Four Books and various historical books also mention God, sometimes called Haotian God, in the original mythological and religious system of ancient China, referring to the supreme god, literally meaning the emperor above, meaning the supreme master, also known as the emperor or Tiantaiyi.

(The ancient Chinese belief in God had two origins, one was the worship of the heavens, and the ritual worship of the North Star.)

Zheng Xuan, a great Confucian of the Eastern Han Dynasty, said: God is another name for heaven.

At the same time, there is "six days one"

said.

It is believed that there are six gods, Haotian God plus the five gods in the southeast, northwest, and middle.

Zhu Xi, a great Confucian scholar of science in the Song Dynasty, believed that the principles of the Emperor of Heaven were all different names for the same subject, while Lu Jiuyuan Wang Yangming of the Heart School believed that "my heart is the universe, and the universe is my heart"

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The early God had a strong personality of God, as mentioned in the Book of Shang: God's favor is not always in the family, and those who do good deeds will be given a hundred blessings, and those who do not do good will be given a hundred disasters.

In the later Confucian beliefs, the personality of God disappeared, and it was only regarded as a philosophical formless and nameless ontology, called Li.

Zhuangzi believes that everything is based on the Tao, and heaven is born from the Tao.

Mozi treats God and ghosts as another kind of living being.

(In the "Book of Shang", it is said: God loves the people, establishes a king for the people to reassure the people, and establishes teachers for the people to teach the people; And those who are kings and teachers should help God pacify the people of the world.

In the "Book of Shang", it is also said that the king said: Although I understand your words, but the Xia family is guilty, I am afraid of God, and I dare not go to the expedition!

In the Book of Songs, it is said that the great God has the Holy Spirit, and he sees the world most clearly.

Observe the four corners of the world and explore whether the people can be stable?

In the "Chinese", it is written: The ancient kings had the world and worshiped God, so they had the sun and the moon to teach the people how to serve the monarch.

Therefore, the rite must have originated from the Taiyi (Emperor of Heaven), which is divided into two, with heaven at the top and earth at the bottom, and the sky is transformed into yang, and the earth is transformed into yin, and yang becomes spring and summer, and yin becomes autumn and winter, so there are four seasons, and then there are ghosts and gods.

The rites of the saints are based on these decrees, which are taken from the heavens.

The rites must be derived from the Emperor of Heaven and the Heavens, followed by the imitation of the earth, followed by the five rituals, and then the four times, and conform to the guidelines of issuing orders every month.

Rites are also called righteousness in personnel, which are embodied in various rituals such as money, energy, resignation, diet, crown, wedding, funeral, shooting, and court.

Therefore, etiquette and righteousness are the top priority of being a person.

People use Lilly to pay attention to trust, to maintain harmony, to unite each other as if skin to skin is connected to bones.

People regard ritual as the top priority of health preservation and death and worship of ghosts and gods, and regard ritual as an important channel to implement heavenly principles and straighten out human feelings.

Therefore, only a saint knows that the rites must be indispensable.

Therefore, whoever is ruined and ruined must have ended up like this because he first put aside his courtesy.

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