Abstract

Shang Zhou Qin and Han period for the founding of the agriculture, the basis of social institutions and social relations is agriculture, and the theocratic regime from the country to folk beliefs and customs are based on agricultural civilization. The country lurks a strong agricultural thinking, which determines the gods as a ritual object, is attached between the subtle agricultural Godhood. This“god of agriculture”is the concept of a broad perspective; agriculture godhood is not the sole godhood of the gods, but as part of the god's godhood. Determined to gods which possess agricultural godhood have two criteria, at first, the gods have been identified in the area of agricultural production capabilities, and second, when the gods of being sacrificed distinctive agricultural expectations. This paper aims to examine historical documents and unearthed documents, unearth the agriculture godhood of Shang Zhou Qin and Han dynasties, hackle the system for gods of agriculture, explore the evolution of the concept of gods and worship-oriented, examining major agricultural ritual gods, liturgical poetry and song, in order to reveal the agriculture implications in worship and sacrifice. The thesis includes five parts. The introduction describes the origin of the thesis, the main concepts and academic history of this thesis. The first chapter mainly elaborates the agricultural godhood of the deity in the Shang, Zhou, Qin and Han Dynasties. The second chapter mainly elaborates the agricultural godhood of land in the period of the Shang, Zhou, Qin and Han Dynasties. The third chapter mainly discusses the agricultural godhood of the ancestral gods in the Shang, Zhou, Qin and Han Dynasties. The epilogue concluded the whole thesis, discussed the reasons that agricultural godhood unchanged, also discussed the reasons that ancient civilization didn't appear A spirit of religion.