论文明前夜民间社会的出现与民间信仰的生成

在远古时代,社会结构较为单一,社会分层尚未形成,原始信仰与崇拜自然也就未有分野。在文明前夜的文明形成过程中,城乡分野出现,社会结构也显现出以权力人物为核心的上层社会和以普通劳动者为主组成的民间社会。权力人物与上层社会垄断了与天地沟通的种种崇拜与信仰,那些与社会生产和生活较为密切的信仰则由民间社会所传承。

A Tentative Study on the Appearance of the Folk Society and the Forming of the Folk Belief on the Eve of Civilization

In the ancient times,the social structure was rather unitary and the social stratification had not formed,so the primitive belief and the nature worship had not been demarcated.During the forming process of the civilization on the eve of the civilization,the demarcation between town and country appeared,and the social structure had shown the upper-class society with the powerful people as the center and the folk society with the ordinary laborers as the main part.The powerful people and the upper-class society had monopolized all kinds of worships and beliefs communicating with the heaven and the earth.Those beliefs which were closely connected with the social production and the social life had been inherited by the folk society.