庙、信仰与社区——从城隍信仰看近代上海城隍庙社区

Temple,Belief and Community——Seeing Modern Chenghuang Temple Community from Chenghuang Belief

从晚清到民国,源于传统的上海城隍信仰,经历了“亦官亦民”到“日益大众化”、“信仰一元”到“信仰商业化”的过程,这一过程体现了精英文化与民间文化、信仰文化与商业文化在近代上海社会生活中的博弈与重构。这些在信仰、仪式等方面表现出的多元因素归结到同一象征点——城隍庙,便会呈现一种空间性的整合,使城隍庙社区成为具有传统气质的以信仰为内核、集文化、商业、娱乐为一体的公共活动空间。这可以看作城隍信仰与近代化过程中的城隍庙社区的互动。

The Chenghuang Temple Belief originated from the tradition,from the late Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China.The process embodied the elite culture gambling with the folk culture,belief culture and business culture among the social life in Shanghai.All to one point—Chenghuang Temple,and made it to be a public room of traditional quality and based on the belief.