论桂北地区商业发展和民间信仰的互动关系——基于大圩祭祀圈的考察

Discussion on the Interactive Relationship between Business Development and Folk Beliefs in the Northern Area of Guangxi——Based on the investigations of the Sacrifice Circle in Daxu

大圩是明清时期广西四大圩镇之一,其商民祭祀活动主要集中在关帝庙、汉高祖庙等寺庙,并且由于这些信仰的普遍认同性,进而在大圩及其周边村落形成了一个共有的"祭祀圈"。外省商人及本地"坐贾"在大圩开展商业活动,更多的是依赖中国传统社会的"熟人网络",而民间信仰在这种网络的构建中起了很大的作用,且一定程度上规范了地方商业活动的秩序。桂北商业圩镇的民间信仰发展,主要由商人、地方士绅与移民等三种主要力量来推动。

Daxu was one of the four biggest trading centres of Guangxi in the Ming and Qing Dynas- ties. In this town, the merchants and the common people＇ sacrificial activities mainly concentrated in the Temple of Guan Yu and Temple of Han fitst Emperor and so on, while because these beliefs had common i- dentity, a mutual Sacrifice Circle was formed in Daxu and its surrounding villages. Both the merchants from other provinces and the local retailers who carried on business activities in Daxu mainly dependecl on the Chinese traditional ~~~ciety＇ s acquaintances network, in which the folk beliefs played a very significant role, at the same time the folk beliefs regulated the order of the local commercial activities to a certain extent. In the commercial town and its＇ surrounding villages of south of the Five Ridges, the three main forces which promoted the development of the Folk Beliefs are mainly businessmen, local gentlement and immigrant.