According to the Book of Rites, in the Zhou Dynasty every school was to perform the Shidian Ritual twice a year--once in the spring and once in the autumn--in honor of those learned ones and teachers who had made contributions to education.
根據《禮記》〈文王世子〉的記載，周朝時，各地學校每年都要按春、秋兩季行釋奠禮，以緬懷對教育有貢獻的已逝賢達和師長。