"The Son of Heaven is sovereign lord of all " Dong Zhuo continued "but without awe-inspiring dignity he can not do honor to the ancestral temple or the sacred shrines.

Xian", a fat dog as a religious sacrifice to gods and ancestors in ancient times, was raised in ancestral temples of China."

Ode is used for the sacred music of religion fete, which is very close to music .

Its role was limited in ancestral temples to mediate the relation between gods and men.

Thereupon Lord Wu had sitting mats set out in the ancestral temple hall, arranged in three tiers, and help feast for officers and chief officials.