论夏商时期的时间意识

基于长期观察和实践，原始社会晚期已经萌生原始时间概念。商王朝时期，时间概念已非常丰富和成熟，并应用于季节记时、年月日记时以及时刻记时。夏商时间意识特征：一是具有季节变化的周期性色彩，并与农业活动和人们社会生活密切相关。二是已形成了较完整的体系和管理与运作制度，带有原始宗教色彩。三是开始出现了客观时间向主观心理时间的转换，对时间迟滞状态和时光飞逝现象的认识已经呈现。

On the Concept of Time in the Xia and Shang Dynasties

In the late primitive society,primate concept of time had initiated based on long period observation and practice.In the Shang Dynasty,time was used to calculate year,season,month,date and hour.The characteristics of the time concept in Xia and Shang Dynasties are that:the seasons are in a circulating system and closely related to people's agricultural and social activities;A comparative perfect operating and managing system of time with primitive religion hue had been formed;The subjective psychological ti...