天时与人时——民众时间意识探源

Natural Season Time and Social Life Time:The Study About Or igin of Consciousness of Folk Time

古代中国民众的时间意识表现为天时与人时二重组合。从民众时间意识的起源上看,自然时序、原始宗教信仰以及社会生活节奏是形成民众时间观念的三大要素。从历史发展的路径看,早期社会以自然时序的天时为第一选择,随着社会生活秩序的确立,人们逐渐以适用社会生活节奏的人时为岁时体系建立的基础。

The time consciousness of ancient china were reformed by natural s eason time and social life time.The natural season,primeval faith and social lif e cadence are three element which came into being the time ideal of demos from o rigin of time consciousness.In order of history,the first choosing is natural se ason for primeval society,along with the life order was established,people first choose the society time as basic of festival system.