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- Title: Le Sacrifice Au Ciel Dans La Chine Ancienne: Theorie Et Pratique Sous Les Han Occidentaux (Book Review)
- Author : The Journal of the American Oriental Society
- Release Date : January 01, 2003
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 202 KB
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By MARIANNE BUJARD. Ecole francaise d'Extreme-Orient monographe, no. 187. Paris: ECOLE FRANCAISE D'EXTREME-ORIENT, 2000. Pp. 261. E 35.06 (paper). At the beginning of the year 31 B.C. Emperor Cheng (r. 32-37 B.C.) performed the jiao sacrifice in the southern suburbs of Chang'an, the capital of the Han empire. According to Dong Zhongshu (195-115 B.C.) the jiao sacrifice, formulated and restored from the hermeneutics of ancient texts such as the Shijing, the Shangshu, the Chunqiu, and the Liji, stemmed from the Zhou dynasty. Following the steps of Dong Zhongshu who, elaborating on these texts, looked for the origin of the sacrifice, M. Bujard examines the occurrences of the term jiao in the aforementioned Classics, in an attempt to outline its history. The author divides her study into three parts: "Le sacrifice jiao dans le Chunqiu fanlu," "Le sacrifice jiao dans les Classiques" and "Le sacrifice jiao dans le Shiji et le Hanshu." In the first she presents Dong Zhongshu's theory: after devoting a short chapter to the biography of the Han thinker, she analyzes and translates the chapters of the Chunqiu fanlu dealing with the jiao sacrifice (chs. 65, 66, 67, 69, 70 and 71), which, according to G. Arbuckle, were written by Dong Zhongshu during the reign of Emperor Wu (r. 145-87 B.C.). (1) In these chapters the ritual practices inherited by the Qin are criticized in favor of a sacrifice to Heaven: "En fait, le sacrifice jiao adresse au Ciel est le rite le plus important au regard des regles redigees par les saints d'autrefois. Dans les siecles precedents, il n'est pas un seul roi qui n'ait accomplice sacrifice, avec ferveur et devotion, pour servir le Ciel. Seuls les Qin, manquant a leur devoir, l'ont aboli. N'ont-ils pas ainsi gravement trahi 'les anciens preceptes'?" (p. 45).