人类学的调查研究结果表明,祭天是人类大多数民族都曾有过的礼仪。但是由于时代、观念、文化的差异,从形式到内容都有不同程度的差别。清入关前,满族的祭天活动跟汉族也有很多不同。比如满民族原是元旦堂子祭天,汉族则是冬至圜丘祭天。清入关后,在祭天礼制上发生了很大的变化。《大清会典》上规定:“正月上辛祈谷,孟夏常 Anthropological survey results show that heaven is the ritual that most people in China have ever had. However, due to the differences of the times, concepts and cultures, there are different degrees of difference from the forms to the contents. Before the Qing customs, the Manchu worship activities with the Han also have many different. For example, the whole nation was originally the New Year’s Day temple sacrificial day, the Han nationality is the winter solstice mound festival. After the customs clearance, great changes have taken place in the ceremony of sacrificial offering. “On the ceremony of the Qing dynasty,” it was stipulated: "Xinzheng Shangqin Valley and Mengxia Chang often