Research on the Annotation of the Ritual System of the Emperor's Ancestral Temple in the Zhou Dynasty by the Confucian Scholars of the Song Dynasty

As far as the ritual system of the seven emperors' ancestral temples,and various forms of sacrifices of the Zhou Dynasty recorded in some Confucian canons were concerned,the Confucian scholars of the Song Dynasty either followed the teachings of Confucian scholars such as Zheng Xuan,Wang Su and Zhao Kuang,supplemented and perfected their teachings,or established new explanatory systems on the basis of their own understanding and analysis of the Confucian canons,thus pushing the methods of annotating Confucian canons to a new level.