supreme power

supreme power

Zongmiao sheji, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is Z à ngmi à OSH è J à, which means zongmiao refers to the place where emperors or literati worship their ancestors. Sheji is a place for sacrificing earth God and grain God. Borrowing refers to the country. The whole sentence represents the supreme power held by the feudal rulers. From the book of changes · Zhen.

The origin of Idioms

"Zhouyi · Zhen" said: "out, you can keep the ancestral temple and the country, thinking that it is also a sacrifice to the Lord."

Idiom usage

As subject, object, attribute; of a country

Examples

The son of heaven is the Lord of all the people. You can't worship without prestige. (the third chapter of romance of the Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong in Ming Dynasty)