僧侣、士人与胡则信仰

胡则是活跃于北宋初期政治舞台的有才干的官员,其人格与传统的儒教价值观并不太吻合.尽管如此,早在北宋时期胡则信仰便在浙江地区产生并传播.本文旨在考察推动和促使胡则信仰得以产生、繁盛的社会阶层.在建立、修理胡则庙,编造胡则神传说并使之在民间普及的过程中,可以看出僧侣阶层起了关键的作用.同时,胡则是宋代婺州第一位通过科举走上仕途的士大夫,因而除庶民阶层外,其信仰还获得了士人层的支持.通过士人层向朝廷申请封号、赐额,并主张胡则神是儒教正神等活动,该信仰得到了朝廷的许可、支持,由此胡则信仰得以长盛不衰.

Buddhists, Literati and the Worship of Hu Ze

Hu Ze is an official of competence in the early Northern Song Dynasty, when his worship appeared and began to spread in Zhejiang, China. This paper aims to examine the social circumstances which promoted the rise and thriving of this sort of belief, and Buddhists and literati prove to have played significant and active roles in the deification of the God of Hu Ze.