敬天祭祖中的政教合一——析先秦文化的宗教意识

Theocracy in Worship and Sacrificial Rituals ——Analysis of Religious Consciousness of Pre-Qin-Dynasty Culture

在宗法血亲礼制的社会结构的深度影响下,先秦宗教意识将昊天上帝和祖先神灵作为主要的崇拜对象,并且通过"以祖配天"的机制将两者融合成了一个有机的整体。贯穿这个整体的则是某种有特色的"政教合一"意向,这种凭借神性信仰的观念为人间君主的统治权威提供了合法性的依据。

Under the significant influence from social structure with tight control of patriarchal clan system, the pre- Qin religious consciousness treated the Heavenly God and the ancestral spirits as the primary objects of worship, and combined the two into an organic whole based on the mechanism of ＂Ancestry coupled with Heaven＂. The biding thread for this integration is a somewhat unique intention of oneness between regime and religion, which served as legitimate evidence for the authority of the ruling monarch borrowed from belief in divinity.