The Morality and Religious consciousness of Zhou Dynasty

For a long time, the concept of the morality has been naturally regarded as an important element in pre-Qin's ideological history sphere. But in fact, the true meaning contained by the word of the morality much more touched upon the social political problems, and not only the pure ideological ethics questions no matter it was viewed from the documents or the inscription on wine vessels. The men of Zhou stressed the morality and mainly employed its concept to political area. In Zhou Dynasty, the morality was the base to be a founder and the key to long keep the state and it also was peculiar to aristocrat class; Moreover, the morality not only was a kind of controling power that was radiated in all directions from the emperor of Zhou and the dukes including the whole aristocrat class, also was a kind of means founded on the patriarchal clan enfeoffment to handle multilevel political relationship.