试论我国古代的“天帝”形象

A Study on the Image of Supreme God in Ancient China

中国古代社会存在一个至上神崇拜，文字出现前其名字无考，商称“帝”，西周时期称“天”，东周时期“太一”和“帝俊”混称，两汉时期多称为“太一”。蹲踞姿态和“揽撮阴阳”是其形象的基本特征。他的形象最早出现在距今约5300年-4000年的良渚文化时期，经商周而抵两汉，演变序列清晰。这种变化是不同时期人们的思想意识和世界观变化的反映。

There was a supreme god in ancient society of China. Its name was unknown at preliterate time. Then ＂Di＂was the name in Shang Dynasty; ＂Tian＂ in Western Zhou Dynasty; ＂Taiyi＂ or ＂Dijun＂ were alternatively used in Eastern Zhou Dynast; and ＂Taiyi＂ was the popular name during the Western and Eastern Dynasties. Crouching pose, in regulating Yin and Yang, was generally the image, which appeared during Liangzhu Culture about 5300- 4000 years ago, spanning from Shang Dynasty, Zhou Dynasty to the Western and Eastern Dynasties. The evolution process was clearly marked, which is actually the reflection of the changing mind and the changing world outlook of the earliest Chinese people in different historic period of time.