Why do you bow to Confucius IV?

The highest etiquette in Chinese etiquette is the Four Worship, which is a great gift to heaven and earth, to your father and to your teacher. The use of four worships in offering sacrifices to Confucius shows that Confucius has a high status. Recite Zhang Zai's "Four Sentences of Horizontal Canal" during the worship: make a heart for heaven and earth, make a life for the people, carry forward the past and create a peaceful future for all generations.

This shows the lofty position of Confucius in the history and culture of China for thousands of years. In the eyes of ordinary people, three kneels and nine knocks are the greatest etiquette, but three kneels and nine knocks are inherited from the Qing Dynasty, and four worships belong to the ritual system of the Ming Dynasty. The value, spirit and wisdom represented by Confucius, the sage of the East, and the Confucian culture advocated by him will also be carried forward, benefiting China from generation to generation and mankind in the world.

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The source of offering sacrifices to Confucius

In the mid-Western Han Dynasty, natural disasters occurred frequently and the society was in turmoil. Confucian belle believes that this is because the sacrifice to Confucius was not properly arranged, so God was angry. At that time, the state power accepted Mei Fu's proposal and made Confucius a descendant of Shang Tang, inheriting the sacrifice of the former king. It was not until the Eastern Han Dynasty that Confucius was officially regarded as the public god of the country, and his status was equal to that of the national god.

During the Tang Dynasty, every county was ordered to build temples to worship Confucius. There are two big sacrifices in spring and autumn every year, and two small sacrifices on the first and fifteenth day of each month. At first, the big festival was presided over by academic officials, and later by local officials. After the Tang Dynasty, the status of Confucius was constantly improved, and the titles of Confucius were also increasing. In the Qing dynasty, Confucius' sacrifice once became a "great sacrifice" at the same level as God and the national ancestor God. This honor is only Confucius besides Laozi.

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