从光绪《广州府志》看广府大众信仰及其对地方社会的作用

Looking at Popular Beliefs in Guangzhoufu and Their Influences on Local Society from Guangzhoufu Records of Guangxu

光绪《广州府志》保存了大量与广府大众信仰有关的资料,包括信仰场所的分布及变化、神灵的种类、信仰活动的形式和规模以及信仰思想的传播、传承和变迁等。它呈现了广府大众信仰的神灵繁多、分层结构明显、与世俗社会关系密切、官方与民间双向互动等特点。广府大众信仰有建立生活秩序和调节生活,提供社交场所和机会,进行社会管理和服务等功能。

Guangzhoufu Records of Guangxu preserved many reference materials related to popular beliefs in Guangzhoufu,including the locations and changes of places of worship,types of divinities,forms and scales of activities of worship,and the spreading,inheritance,and transformation of religious thoughts.It demonstrated various features of popular beliefs in Guangzhoufu such as great varieties of divinities,obvious class structures,close connections with secular society,and twoway interactions between the government and the people.Popular beliefs of Guangzhoufu played the functions of establishing order and modulating life,providing venues for social activities and opportunities,and conducting social management and services.