明朝内庙祭祀制度探讨

Sacrificial System to the Ancestors of the inner Temple in Ming Dynasty

明初,朱元璋取法宋代的钦先孝思殿,在宫内设立奉先殿祭祀祖先,创立起明朝的内庙祭祀制度。设于两京宫中以奉先殿为核心的内庙,实为明朝皇帝的家庙。其在设置、渊源及祭祀礼仪上,都有一些不同于宗庙的特点,是明朝皇帝祖先祭祀体系当中的重要一环。

At the beginning of Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang, taking Qi Xian Xiao Si Hall of Song Dynasty as his model, set up Feng Xian Hall in the palace to offer sacrifices to ancestors and therefore founded the system of offering sacrifices in the inner temple in Ming Dynasty. The inner temples, located in the palaces of the two capitals, with Fengxian temple being the core, actually were the emperor's ancestral temples of Ming Dynasty. They had some characteristics differing from those of religious temples in set-up, origin, and ceremony of offering sacrifices. It is an important part of the system of the emperor of Ming Dynasty offering sacrifices to ancestors.