厉鬼·瘟鬼·财神——论赵公明神格演变的轨迹

Ferocious Ghost,Plague Ghost and Money God——On the character changing track of ZHAO Gong-ming

东汉人即认为春秋时晋景公所梦大厉是赵公明之鬼,晋时其神格由厉鬼演变为瘟鬼,蒙元时则一分为二,并以赵元帅之职强调其善神神格。至有明中期,由于宗教进一步世俗化、三教融合、宗教徒成为职业宗教者及与之相关通俗文学的盛行,赵元帅公明最终定位于财神而广为人们信奉。

The people in the period of east Han dynasty considered that the ferocious ghost Prince Jing of Jin state in period of Spring and Autumn dreamed was the spirit of ZHAO Gong- ming. In the period of Jin dynasty, Zhao＇ s spirit character was considered as plague ghost. In the period of Yuan dynasty,Zhao＇ s character was divided into two roles,i, e. ghost and god and was stressed as god one. In the middle period of Ming dynasty,with the further change of common customs of religion,the three schools i. e. Confucian, Buddhist and Taoist,gradually mixed,religion became into a kind of vocation, religion and the popularized literature concerned with the religion came into fashion,ZHAO Gong -ming finally was raised into the character of money god and was believed in by people.