Burial In Song China
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Burial In Song China
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Author : Dieter Kuhn
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994
Burial In Song China written by Dieter Kuhn and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Burial categories.
Burial In Sung Song China
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Author : Dieter Kuhn
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994
Burial In Sung Song China written by Dieter Kuhn and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with categories.
Death Rituals And Politics In Northern Song China
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Author : Mihwa Choi
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2017-10-03
Death Rituals And Politics In Northern Song China written by Mihwa Choi and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-03 with Religion categories.
In traditional China, a funeral and the accompanying death rituals represented a critical moment for the immediate family of the deceased to show their filial piety, a core value of the society. At the same time, death rituals were social occasions, and channels for the outward demonstration of belief in a religiously pluralistic society. During the Northern Song period, however, death rituals increasingly became an arena for political contention as attempts were made to transform these practices from a private matter into one subject to state control. Death Rituals and Politics in Northern Song China examines how political confrontations over the proper conduct of death rituals during Northern Song dynasty (960-1127) inaugurated a period of Confucian revivalism. Mihwa Choi interprets Northern Song court politics, family ritual practices, burial practices, and the popular imagination of the afterlife as sites of contest between groups of varying social status, political vision, and religious belief. She demonstrates that the oversight of ritual affairs by scholar-officials helped them gain the political upper hand they sought, and, more broadly, fostered a revival of Confucianism as the dominant value system of Chinese society in the period that followed.
Funeral
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Author : Sangzhang Juan
language : en
Publisher: ATF Press
Release Date : 2017-07-20
Funeral written by Sangzhang Juan and has been published by ATF Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-20 with History categories.
The book is one of Chinese Folklore Culture Series, which systematically introduces the funeral conception and manners, burial methods, criteria for choosing burial sites, mourning garments of the dead's relatives and mourning life in Chinese history, and so on. It reveals the development and evolution process of Chinese funeral customs, making readers have a further understanding of Chinese funeral customs and taboos different nationalities comprehensively.
Inscribed Stones
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Author : Carole Morgan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
Inscribed Stones written by Carole Morgan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with categories.
A Translation Of The Ancient Chinese
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Author : Juwen Zhang
language : en
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Release Date : 2004
A Translation Of The Ancient Chinese written by Juwen Zhang and has been published by Edwin Mellen Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with History categories.
The Book of Burial defined fengshui for the first time: it integrated various local beliefs and practices into the dominant Confucian tradition. It is, therefore, key to any understanding of Chinese culture. Based on the edition of the Book of Burial (Zang Shu) most popular during the last millennium, this translation makes available the text that links the widespread Chinese practice of fengshui (geomancy) to the fundamental beliefs and moral principles of Chinese culture. This annotation and commentary serve to place the text and the history of burial ritual in the proper cultural context. The translator's introduction, which explores the questions of the interaction between elite and folk culture and the continuity of tradition, suggests an interdisciplinary approach to the study of fengshui.
Performing Filial Piety In Northern Song China
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Author : Cong Ellen Zhang
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2020-09-30
Performing Filial Piety In Northern Song China written by Cong Ellen Zhang and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-30 with History categories.
Educated men in Song-dynasty China (960–1279) traveled frequently in search of scholarly and bureaucratic success. These extensive periods of physical mobility took them away from their families, homes, and native places for long periods of time, preventing them from fulfilling their most sacred domestic duty: filial piety to their parents. In this deeply grounded work, Cong Ellen Zhang locates the tension between worldly ambition and family duty at the heart of elite social and cultural life. Drawing on more than two thousand funerary biographies and other official and private writing, Zhang argues that the predicament in which Song literati found themselves diminished neither the importance of filial piety nor the appeal of participating in examinations and government service. On the contrary, the Northern Song witnessed unprecedented literati activity and state involvement in the bolstering of ancient forms of filial performances and the promotion of new ones. The result was the triumph of a new filial ideal: luyang. By labeling highly coveted honors and privileges attainable solely through scholarly and official accomplishments as the most celebrated filial acts, the luyang rhetoric elevated office-holding men to be the most filial of sons. Consequently, the proper performance of filiality became essential to scholar-official identity and self-representation. Zhang convincingly demonstrates that this reconfiguration of elite male filiality transformed filial piety into a status- and gender-based virtue, a change that had wide implications for elite family life and relationships in the Northern Song. The separation of elite men from their parents and homes also made the idea of “native place” increasingly fluid. This development in turn generated an interest in family preservation as filial performance. Individually initiated, kinship- and native place-based projects flourished and coalesced with the moral and cultural visions of leading scholar-intellectuals, providing the social and familial foundations for the ascendancy of Neo-Confucianism as well as new cultural norms that transformed Chinese society in the Song and beyond.
Death Rituals And Politics In Northern Song China
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Author : Mihwa Choi
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2017-10-03
Death Rituals And Politics In Northern Song China written by Mihwa Choi and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-03 with Religion categories.
In traditional China, a funeral and the accompanying death rituals represented a critical moment for the immediate family of the deceased to show their filial piety, a core value of the society. At the same time, death rituals were social occasions, and channels for the outward demonstration of belief in a religiously pluralistic society. During the Northern Song period, however, death rituals increasingly became an arena for political contention as attempts were made to transform these practices from a private matter into one subject to state control. Death Rituals and Politics in Northern Song China examines how political confrontations over the proper conduct of death rituals during Northern Song dynasty (960-1127) inaugurated a period of Confucian revivalism. Mihwa Choi interprets Northern Song court politics, family ritual practices, burial practices, and the popular imagination of the afterlife as sites of contest between groups of varying social status, political vision, and religious belief. She demonstrates that the oversight of ritual affairs by scholar-officials helped them gain the political upper hand they sought, and, more broadly, fostered a revival of Confucianism as the dominant value system of Chinese society in the period that followed.
Chinese Funerary Biographies
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Author : Patricia Buckley Ebrey
language : en
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Release Date : 2019-12-13
Chinese Funerary Biographies written by Patricia Buckley Ebrey and has been published by University of Washington Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-13 with History categories.
Tens of thousands of epitaphs, or funerary biographies, survive from imperial China. Engraved on stone and placed in a grave, they typically focus on the deceased’s biography and exemplary words and deeds, expressing the survivors’ longing for the dead. These epitaphs provide glimpses of the lives of women, men who did not leave a mark politically, and children—people who are not well documented in more conventional sources such as dynastic histories and local gazetteers. This anthology of translations makes available funerary biographies covering nearly two thousand years, from the Han dynasty through the nineteenth century, selected for their value as teaching material for courses in Chinese history, literature, and women’s studies as well as world history. Because they include revealing details about personal conduct, families, local conditions, and social, cultural, and religious practices, these epitaphs illustrate ways of thinking and the realities of daily life. Most can be read and analyzed on multiple levels, and they stimulate investigation of topics such as the emotional tenor of family relations, rituals associated with death, Confucian values, women’s lives as written about by men, and the use of sources assumed to be biased. These biographies will be especially effective when combined with more readily available primary sources such as official documents, religious and intellectual discourses, and anecdotal stories, promising to generate provocative discussion of literary genre, the ways historians use sources, and how writers shape their accounts.
The Funeral Singer
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Author : Anhua Gao
language : en
Publisher: Remembering Publishing, LLC
Release Date : 2023-04-30
The Funeral Singer written by Anhua Gao and has been published by Remembering Publishing, LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-04-30 with Fiction categories.
This book is about the life of a Chinese countryside funeral singer. His name was Han Lao-lao, also known as La-la. Rulers have come and gone without changing their traditional ways. Then, in 1949, the Communists defeated the Nationalists and took power in China, bringing a completely new way of life. Some things have been slow to change. To the superstitious population, the slightest involvement in the handling of a dead member of another family will bring bad luck. Before burial was outlawed in favour of cremation, one professional built up such a high reputation, his participation became an obligatory part of every funeral. He was La-la, the funeral singer, and if he was not involved in a funeral, the deceased family lost much face. Educationally illiterate, La-la inherited a wonderful voice and a gift for people. His songs are known as “on the road ballads” and he never sang a song more than once, making every funeral as individual as the life just ended. For all of his working life, La-la enjoyed the enviable position of knowing that every family would need him at some time, and yet, whilst everybody knew how important his job was, nobody wanted it. This is his story, told with love and respect.