“国之大事,在祀与戎”[1]578。商代统治者对祭祀非常重视,其用牲每每数十乃至上百,更有甚者多达千余。用牲的方法亦是多种多样,有火烧、沉河、对剖、肢解、剥皮、活埋、断首、水煮、曝晒等多种方式。 “National event, worship and Rong” [1] 578. Shang rulers attach great importance to the sacrificial offerings, their use of sacrifices dozens or even hundreds, even worse up to more than a thousand. There are many ways to sacrifice animals, such as burning, sinking, cutting, dismembering, skinning, burying, cutting off, boiling, exposing and so on.