Historical Investigation of the Opinion of “People’s Advocacy of Red in the Zhou Dynasty”

The opinion of “people’s advocacy of red in the Zhou Dynasty”offered by the confucian in the Warring States Period is a hypothesis founded by means of exaggerating the meaning of individual facts like people’s habits of advocating red immolations in the Zhou Dynasty. The opinion is hard to establish for it is contradict to the historical facts that white flags and black formal attires advocated in the Western Zhou and the Spring and Autumn Period. Confucian’s argument of “people’s advocacy of red in the Zhou Dynasty”is very farfetched at first and supplementary explanations given by scholars especially Dong Zhong-shu in the Qin-Han Period are the results that they ignored historical facts and deduced randomly. Totally speaking, the opinion of “people’s advocacy of red in the Zhou Dynasty”is not much valuable for us to study ritual system of Zhou Dynasty as references. If we readily believe it and infer relevant cultural phenomenons of Zhou Dynasty according to it, mistaken conclusions will be reached easily.