德庆龙母祖庙民间宗教祭祀文化及原型探究

Research on Folk Religion Culture and Archetype of the Long Mu Temple Located in Deqing

西江龙母祖庙是西江人民的圣殿,是西江人民一种原生态的祭祀文化现象。宗教是前工业社会的基础,祭祀是世界性的文化现象。龙是水神,也由此是统摄自然力量的象征。文章阐释了"祭祀"的含义、"龙"文化及其意义;并结合荣格集体无意识原型理论,分析了西江龙母既是与龙文化相关的水神,也是一种大母神心理原型。龙母祖庙是西江人民原生态文化生命的载体。

The Long Mu （the Goddess of Dragon Mother） Temple is the Holy Land of the people living in the Xijiang River Basin. It is a kind of aboriginal worshiping culture there. Religion is a foundation of the pre-industrial society, and worshiping the ancestors is a worldwide cultural phenomenon. The dragon is a water god. It is there- fore regarded as a symbol of the natural forces. This paper explains the meaning of ＂worshiping the ancestors＂ and ＂the dragon＂, and the cultural significance of both of them. Based on Jung~ collective unconscious archetype theo- ry, this paper analyses the Xijiang Long Mu culture, and holds that the Dragon Mother is a water-related nymph, and a psychological archetype of the Great Mother as well. The Long Mu Temple embodies the aboriginal cultural life of the people living in the Xijiang River Basin.