A wizard is a person who manipulates witchcraft. Let's talk about the origin and source of witchcraft first.
The origin of witchcraft
Witchcraft is a religious ceremony in ancient times, and people seek self-comfort in the form of meeting the needs of the gods.
Religion is a special social ideology. Religious ideas are not inherent in human beings. They are the products of the development of human social productive forces to a certain stage, and also the low level of productive forces, which reflects the weakness and blind dependence of human beings on natural forces in the production struggle.
The manifestations of primitive religion can be roughly divided into two categories: one is the direct contact worship of natural forces and natural objects; The other is the worship of elves and ghosts. Witchcraft belongs to the latter.
In ancient times, people didn't know the structure of their bodies at all, and were influenced by the illusion in dreams, so that they separated the spirit from the body and thought that the spirit was independent of the body. That's how primitive people worshipped elves and ghosts. Believing that everything is animistic and the soul is immortal is the ideological basis of primitive religion.
Take the funeral as an example. After the death of their partner, the caveman would bury the body in the clan residence and sprinkle hematite powder around the body, hoping to give the dead new blood and life. This is probably the most distant witchcraft etiquette.
Witchcraft? The origin of this word
Witchcraft originated from the tribe, and it is said that the son of Shun is the monarch of Wuxian County. Leading wuxian to produce salt. Because the local Wuxian people have mastered the technology of making salt with bittern, they cooked the bittern to precipitate the salt into crystals. What do outsiders think? Change? . In addition, in the process of salt making, people in Wuxian held various sacrificial activities, hoping that the south wind would bring them a good climate and be beneficial to the analysis of salt. Their sacrifices have all kinds of performances, accompanied by all kinds of words of wishing and praying. Finally, each process is started until white crystalline salt is produced.
This whole process, in other tribes, is regarded as a kind of magic, so people call this technology of turning soil into salt? Witchcraft? . so this is it？ Witchcraft? The origin of this word.
Did you know today? Witchcraft? Just will? Change? . In fact, witchcraft first refers to the salt-making technology of Wuxian people. This salt-making technology is called. Witchcraft? , that is? The magician's salt-making technology? . Today's wizards are named after this.
From the origin and source of witchcraft, it can be seen that wizards who used witchcraft in the early days had good wishes and expectations in order to help people live a better life, which is a commendatory term.
Then I express my opinion on the question itself: what about wizards? Early history of China? what's up Absolutely? I don't quite agree with the question of commendatory terms.
If you say? Is it an absolute compliment in the early history of China? Not exactly. China's truly elegant history began in the Xia Dynasty. Before that, history was recorded by legends. In the Xia Dynasty before Shang Dynasty, there were few descriptions of witchcraft, which did not prove that wizards in this period also represented absolute praise. So I have some doubts about the early history of China in the author's question.
In the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, witchcraft was a national art, but it was no longer a simple technique to represent religious beliefs and make salt. Witchcraft has been combined with politics, and witchcraft has spread to every corner of social life in Shang Dynasty. The existence of wizards is associated with politics, and the word wizard is no longer an absolute compliment.