The Nobility of Wine and the Nobility of People: a Preliminary Study on the Hierarchy of Wine Vessels Found in the Eastern Zhou Ritual Books
by Yan Buke
About This Novel
This collection of essays contains 8 articles by the author, with a very concentrated theme, all of which revolve around the hierarchy of wine vessels in the pre-Qin ritual books. The topic of "Wine Vessel Hierarchy and Etiquette" has been almost ignored before. The author discovered a rich mine here. After careful examination, he clarified some old doubts and unearthed some previously unknown historical facts. For example, it sorted out the changes in the concept of "jue", revealed that "Five Jue" was a set of "capacity device names", and made the hierarchical structure of the ceremonial jue known to the public. In addition to providing new knowledge of literature and history through specific research, this study also has theoretical significance. In the traditional era, "Jue" is the oldest and most continuous taste, which is used to confer and maintain dignity. At the same time, "Jue" is also the name of a drinking vessel. "Zun" is the most important status word in ancient times, and "Zun" is also the name of a drinking vessel. The words "Jue" and "Zun" already exist in the oracle bone inscriptions of the Yin Shang Dynasty. At the same time, among the bronze ritual vessels of the Yin Shang Dynasty, wine vessels actually accounted for 70%-80%. Although the proportion of food vessels in Zhou Dynasty bronzes has greatly increased, the offering and drinking of wine still constitute the core etiquette in major ceremonies such as sacrifices, banquets, and shooting marquises. This situation was recorded in the Rites of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty. It is not difficult to deduce that wine vessels must have occupied a special position in the pre-Qin hierarchical etiquette system, which actually made the names of wine vessels such as jue and zun become terms for people's hierarchical status. In the books of rites, which embody the essence of pre-Qin rites and music and serve as cultural classics of all dynasties, we can see that people of all colors and ranks use wine vessels with different names in different aspects of different ceremonies, and this is the research object of this book. The rank of wine nobility (and wine nobility) is used to maintain the dignity of people, so this collection of essays is titled "The Nobility of Wine and the Nobility of People".
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