Exploration of Sacrificial Prayer Archives of Unearthed Bamboo and Silk Documents:On the Archival Value of Prayer Documents
According to the type of writing,the sacrificial and prayer documents in the ancient texts on bamboo and silk is divided into records and messages.The message category refers to the words of prayer during sacrifices,which are the words of communication be-tween man and the Supernatural,and the literature of sacrificial prayers indicate prayers for convalescence from illnesses,smooth trav-els,and good harvests,mainly in the Chu region.The sacrificial prayers are the products of sacrifices and prayers,emphasizing prayers and offerings,which are related to the traditional sacrificial habits,the social background of the flourishing of witchery,and the creative habits of the mutual fulfillment of the ritual system and the literature.The sacrificial prayers is characterized with a stable writing pattern either as a whole message or as a presentation of the sacrificial background and with fixed content of the prayed deities,the prayed things and the sacrifices offered.Ritual prayers meet the requirements of different prays in a flexible and variable writing manner,for the official ritual prayers are serious,sincere and far-reaching pattern while the unofficial ones are more oral,concise and lively.As a kind of archives sealed or buried with the tomb owner,the value of the prayer documents lies in the fact that they may provide texts and messa-ges for the descendants and reflect the prayer beliefs of that specific time period.
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