释奠礼诞生于周朝,定制于唐朝,完善于宋朝,明、清时期更趋完美。虽然释奠礼在唐至元也曾用于祭祀武成王,北周偶用于祭祀仓颉,清代用于祭祀关公和文昌帝君,但只有文庙释奠为人们所熟知,而且至今还在使用,释奠几乎成了文庙祭祀的代名词。在中国,至今仍然保留着南朝以来的乐歌和服饰制度,唐朝以来的仪注,宋、元、明、清和民国的乐谱,明、清和民国的舞谱,以及众多关于释奠的诗赋等文学作品,积累了丰厚的文化遗产。 Release ceremony ceremony was born in the Zhou Dynasty, custom in the Tang Dynasty, perfect in the Song Dynasty, Ming and Qing Dynasties more perfect. Although the release ceremony in the Tang and Yuan have also been used to worship Wu Cheng Wang, the Northern Zhou occasionally used to worship Cijie, the Qing Dynasty for worship Guan Gong and Wenchang Dijun, but only the Temple Relief is well known and is still in use, Almost became synonymous with the Temple of Sacrifice. In China, the song and costume system since the Southern Dynasties still remains. Since the Tang dynasty, the instruments of music, musical instruments of Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties and the Republic of China, the dance spectrum of the Ming and Qing Dynasties and the Republic of China, Literature, has accumulated rich cultural heritage.