Sacrifice to Heaven

Sacrifice to Heaven
Sacrifice to Heaven
Chinese name
Chinese	祭天
Traditional Chinese	祭天
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Jitian
Vietnamese name
Vietnamese alphabet	Lễ tế giao; Lễ tế Nam Giao
Chữ Hán	禮祭郊; 禮南郊
Korean name
Hangul	제천
Hanja	祭天
Revised Romanization
Transcriptions
Revised Romanization	Jecheon
Japanese name
Kanji	祭天
Hiragana	さいてん
Romanization
Transcriptions
Romanization	Saiten

Sacrifice to Heaven (Chinese: 祭天; pinyin: Jìtiān) is an Asian religious practice originating in the worship of Shangdi in China. In Ancient Chinese society, nobles of all levels constructed altars for Heaven. At first, only nobles could worship Shangdi but later beliefs changed and everyone could worship Shangdi.

Modern Confucian churches make this practice available to all believers and it continues in China without a monarch.

It has been influential on areas outside of China including Japan, Vietnam, and Korea.

The Jì (祭) in the Chinese name is the same Je as in Jesa.

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