Sacrifice is to pay tribute to the gods according to a certain ceremony, worship the gods with respectful actions, and ask them to help people realize their wishes that are difficult to achieve by manpower. "People collect money for others to eliminate disasters", which people add to the gods and become the psychological motivation of sacrifice.
Therefore, in essence, sacrifice is to please and buy off the gods, and it is an activity that extends the relationship between people to the relationship between people and God.
In the world, rituals are complicated. Different environments and nationalities constitute different styles of sacrificial culture. Throughout the history of China, the sacrifices of all ethnic groups are varied and colorful, which attracts us to explore the pearls.
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The object of sacrifice is gods, and the appearance of gods has its development process. In the early days of mankind, people were mysterious and afraid of natural objects and all natural phenomena.
The change of the sky, the movement of the sun and the moon, the rocks, trees, birds and animals on the ground are all considered to be dominated by gods, so the concept of animism appeared. These gods not only nurtured the growth of mankind, but also threatened the survival of mankind; Humans are grateful to these gods, but they are also afraid of them, so they worship these many gods and pray for their blessing to avoid disasters.
The goodness of nature can be called god, and the hidden traces of nature can be called ghosts. The worship of Zen refers to the worship of heaven and earth, and the monarch returns his work to heaven and earth, while the objects of worship we usually say are natural gods and ancestral gods.
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