期刊论文

The Mulberry Forest Dance Picture, Immorality in the Mulberry Forest, and the Custom of Praying for Rain from the Warring States Period to the Han Dynasty

中文

艺术探索

1003-3653

2022

36

5

6-15

10.13574/j.cnki.artsexp.2022.05.001

2019年度国家社科基金冷门绝学研究专项“早期外来文化与中华文明起源研究”（19VJX039）；

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The oracle bone and metal inscriptions of the characters"sang丧"(mourning,funeral),"e噩"(ominous,bad)and"sang桑"(mulberry tree)are similar in sound,shape,and meaning."Sang丧"expresses the idea of crying to the thunder god in the mulberry forest to pray for rain,while"e噩"means holding a mulberry wood pillar while calling the thunder god and asking for rain.The ancients believed that"silkworms are dragon spirits",videlicet,that the silkworm is one of the incarnations of the god of thunder.Praying for rain in the mulberry forest,was a rite most l...