Who is the founder of the ancient music of offering sacrifices to Confucius in Liuyang Confucian Temple?

Qiu Shaoqiu is the founder of the ancient music of offering sacrifices to Confucius in Liuyang Confucian Temple.

Qiu Shaoqiu, 193 1, a native of Liuyang, Hunan. From 65438 to 0938, he entered Liuyang Confucian Temple Ritual and Music Bureau to study Liuyang ancient music and participated in Confucius Festival for ten years in a row. He is the only living inheritor of Confucius Temple music in Liuyang Confucian Temple. May 20 18 was recognized as the representative inheritor of the fifth batch of national intangible cultural heritage representative projects.

Sacrificing Confucius is a grand ceremony held by the Chinese nation in the Confucius Temple to respect and remember Confucius, the most holy teacher. In China, almost every state, every government and every county has built Confucius Temple, and there are strict building regulations. This can be traced back to 478 BC, when Lu Aigong held a sacrifice in Qufu, Confucius' hometown, and began the activity of offering sacrifices to Confucius.

Activities of offering sacrifices to Confucius

In BC 195, Liu Bang, the ancestor of Emperor Gaozu, offered a ceremony to Confucius and began to offer sacrifices to the emperor. Since Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty named Confucius "King of Wenxuan" in 739 AD, the activities of offering sacrifices to Confucius began to escalate. After the Song Dynasty, the sacrificial system surged. In the Ming dynasty, it reached the standard of emperors and was called "the grand ceremony of the country". In the Qing Dynasty, offering sacrifices to Confucius reached its peak.

The rituals of offering sacrifices to Confucius are mainly concentrated in four forms: music, song, dance and ceremony, with ceremony as the core and music, song and dance as the foil. All etiquette requirements are "abundance, purity, honesty and respect", which embodies the high unity of artistic form and political content, vividly interprets the meaning of "ceremony" in Confucius' theory, and expresses "benevolence, love and respect"