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the practice in some settled agricultural communities of performing religious or magical rites to ensure good weather and crops and the perpetuity of the tribe 丰收祭礼
Outof the perspectives of fertilitycultandburial codes of practice in primitivesociety, it is easy to showcase the general trend of gendered roles played by ancientChinesewomen.
One notable exception was the late Jacques Cauvin, who, in the seventies, proposed that an early form of religion a cult of the bull and the fertility goddess had fostered a fertility-oriented world view that eventually engendered the shift to agriculture.