关于《天作》的主旨迄今大约有七种观点,大致可分为两类,或认为此诗的祭祀对象是周族的祖先,或认为此诗非为祭祀祖先而作。通过对诗中关键语词的细致考释,并结合周初相关史实和颂诗中的相关诗篇,认为“祭太王”一说既符合史实,也符合全诗的结构和意脉。 About the theme of “Heavenly Creations” So far, there are about seven kinds of views that can be broadly divided into two categories, or that this poem is sacrificed to the ancestors of the Chou ethnic group or that the poem is not made for sacrificing ancestors. Through the careful examination of the key words in the poem and the related historical facts in the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty and related poems in the poem, it is considered that the expression “offering too much king” is not only in line with historical facts but also with the structure and meaning of the whole poem.