This research was to study the relations between cosmology and ritual. Its field was the Shang dynasty in ancient china. It selected the myth of sky-earth separation which was regarded as revealing the cosmology of the Shang dynasty clearly. And it a...
This research was to study the relations between cosmology and ritual. Its field was the Shang dynasty in ancient china. It selected the myth of sky-earth separation which was regarded as revealing the cosmology of the Shang dynasty clearly. And it analyzed the oracle-bone inscriptions reflecting the ritual system of the Shang dynasty. The accounts of the oracle-bone inscriptions included royal genealogies, sacrifices and cyclical rituals. It was proved that the myth of sky-earth separation belonged to not the Shang dynasty but the Zhou dynasty in the course of research. Instead, it was newly presented that the shamanism of the Shang dynasty involved the cosmology of the age. The results ever inquired was already announced in the academic world. Now it is finding out the correlations of cosmology with ritual through digging into the shamanism of the Shang dynasty.