文献和甲骨卜辞祀谱显示,商王武丁在位期间对祭祀制度曾进行过改革。针对这一变革,武丁集团中形成了以太子孝己和傅说为核心的反对派系,批评武丁改革是“黩于祭祀”。围绕着祭祀典制改革的这场政争,以太子派系的失败告终。孝己被流放致死,傅说也可能因此没有进入后世祭祀的谱系中。武丁之后的祖庚、祖甲,兄终弟及相继即位。两人分别反对和支持武丁的祭祀改革。由于祖甲在位期间的坚持,武丁祭祀改革制度终于被确定下来,成为商代晚期历代遵循的“周祭制度”。而这种有悖于传统的过于繁缛的祭祀制度,是导致商王朝最终衰败的重要因素之一。 The literature and the inscriptions on the Oracle Bones show that during the reign of Shang Wang Wuding, the sacrificial system had been reformed. In response to this change, Wu Ding Group formed a opposition faction centered on the filial piety of Princes and Fu and criticized the reform of the Wuding as “sacrificial worship.” This political controversy centered on the reform of the ritual system ended in failure of the Princely faction. Since filial piety was exiled to death, Fu said it may not therefore enter the pedigree of later ritual sacrifices. After the Wuding Zu Geng, ancestral home, brother and one after another ascended the throne. The two opposed and supported the sacrificial reform of Wu Ding respectively. As a result of persecuted during the reign of the ancestral zu, the system of martial sacrifice and sacrifice reform was finally established and became the system of Zhou Festival followed by the late Shang Dynasty. However, this sacrificial system which is contrary to tradition is one of the important factors leading to the final decline of Shang dynasty.