《周易》思想与文化传播--以道教和西南少数民族禹步为例

On the Transmission of the Thought and Culture of the Zhouyi:Taking the Yu Steps Popular in Daoism and National Minorities in Southwest China as a Case

《周易》是中华传统文化的组成部分,是道家道教思想的重要来源。《周易》中有关乾坤、八卦的思想,是道教和西南少数民族禹步的理论基础。论文以道教和西南少数民族禹步为例,详细考察其宗教法术蕴涵的《周易》思想,指出道教和西南少数民族宗教法师的禹步,其科仪始终按九宫八卦布局行法,此深得《周易》思想天人关系的精要。作为仪式中具有宗教象征意义的《周易》八卦符号,表达出中华先民对自然界阴阳运动规律的认识。

As a component of traditional Chinese culture, the Zhouyi is an important theoretic source of Danism. The idea of Qian-Kun （ symbolizing heaven-earth） and eight trigrams constitute the theoretic basis for the Yu （ a legendary sage king） Steps popular in Daoism and national minorities in Southwest China. This paper takes the Yu Steps as an example to examine the thought of Change conceived in religious liturgies, which are arranged by the Luo shu （ River Chart） and contain the essential thought concerning heaven and humanity. The eight trigrams which possess religious symbolic sense in the liturgies conveys Chinese ancestors＇ outhook on the principle of the interactions between Yin and Yang in the natural world.