南亚树木崇拜和佛经母题对于树神传说的触媒

三国两晋时代，南亚树木崇拜传入流播，与中土生态困境引发的理性思考交汇，构成了中土民俗心态的一次震撼。其在介乎民俗传说和文学之间的树神母题中，凄楚而顽强地表现出来。佛经故事母题伴随着佛教的众生平等、戒禁杀生等观念，深入到中国古人民俗心理中。树神崇拜也成为中国古代植物神崇拜的核心。

Catalyzing to the Legend about Chinese Tree Divinity from Tree Worship in South Asia

Spreading into China in the periods of Sanguo and Jin Dynasties, tree worship in south Asia interacted with the rational speculation aroused by the native ecological difficulty and convulsed the state of mind of the Chinese folk-custom. The convulsion was represented deplorably and doggedly by the tree divinity motif with the form between legendary and literature. Under the Buddhist tenets of all life being born equally and abnegating murther, motif of sutra stories went profoundly into the mental of ancient Chinese folk-custom. Tree divinity worship eventually became a nucleus of vegetation divinity worship in ancient China.