《鹿鸣》考

The Textual Research on the Luming

《鹿鸣》是周王朝许多仪式的乐歌。《毛诗序》认为它是宴请群臣嘉宾的诗歌。孔颖达认为群臣就是嘉宾 ,故这首诗歌是为宴请群臣而作。后世学者多从之。笔者认为此诗本是聘礼中燕飨聘问使者的乐歌 ,后来才应用到其他燕飨礼仪中。

Luming” was a song used in many etiquettes in Zhou Dynasty.The preface written by Zixia and maoheng thought it was a poem of entertaining ministers and honorde guests.Kong Yingda argued that the honored guests were the ministers and so the poem was written for entertaining the ministers.Many later scholars agreed to his standpoint.I think that the poem was written for entertaining diplomatic missions at a series of etiquettes of feast in the process of diplomatic activities in Xizhou Dynasty and then used for other general etiquettes of feasts.