"Ming" and the Construction of Holy World View in Western Zhou Dynasty

[[abstract]]在西周前期的觀念中，「命」字所傳達的非但是一種神聖的存有性，更是神聖性的代表及象徵符號，並非僅是後世所常用的命令或生命的形式義。不僅我們所熟悉的「周文傳統」絕大部份是築基在「命」的觀念上，周人神聖世界觀的三大領域－政治、信仰、宗法，也是以「命」為中心所建立起來。「命」本身所蘊含的象徵力量，也在實際的文化建構過程中被周人發揮的淋漓盡致。而這樣的原始意蘊也就是「命」在後來中國哲學的言說語境中，作為一個重要觀念及思考焦點的遠因。 In Western Zhou Dynasty, the character Ming conveys not only a holy existence but holy symbols. Ming does not merely represent the orders or lives used by later generations. Our knowledge of the tradition of Zhou Wen is mostly based on Ming. Furthermore, politics, religion and patriarchy, the three dimensions of the holy world view of people in the Zhou Dynasty, were centered in Ming as well. Ming was fully practiced by people in the Zhou Dynasty through the construction of culture. Therefore, the original meaning of Ming is the reason why it is an important concept and focus of later speech in Chinese philosophy