中国南方少数民族的梅山教

在中国南方少数民族传统宗教中,梅山教是受道教影响较深的宗教。本文对梅山教的神灵信仰,梅山教与道教的关系,梅山教在南方少数民族地区的传播进行探讨,认为梅山教的信仰与仪式具有融摄道教法术和原始巫教的特点,梅山教在南方少数民族地区的传播和影响,是中华民族多元一体格局在宗教文化上的反映。

Mei Shan Religious Sect of Southern Ethnic Groups of China

Among the traditional religions of the ethnic groups in southern China, the Mei Shan Religious Sect was deeply influenced by Taoism. In this paper, the writer mainly studies the spiritual faith of Mei Shan Religious Sect, the relations between Mei Shan Religious Sect and Taoism, and its disseminating in the dwelling areas of the southern ethnic groups. The writer thinks that, the faith and the religious ceremonies of it show that it had merged some magic arts of Taoism, but it still keeps its original religious features. The disseminating and influencing of it just proves the outstanding character of the cultural structure of China-Plural Concepts but One Body.