我们相信什么——儒学背景下的民族信仰思考

What We Believe——Thinking of National Belief under the Background of Confucianism

以儒家文化为核心主体的民族传统文化,由于早期夏商尊鬼崇神文化蜕变为西周时期的人道设教,以至于没有像西方社会形成彼在性唯一神灵宗教信仰。后来,儒家将西周时期所产生的人本道德观引申推阐为社会的基本思想理论,对民族信仰文化的建构产生了重要的影响,逐渐形成了具有民族特色的信仰文化体系,即以现实性的"相信"为其信仰的心理趋向;以"自然合理有价值意义的现实生活"为其信仰内容;以天人、人人、自我整体优化实现为其信仰的至高境界。独特的民族信仰文化体系,最终沉积为华夏民族久远以来特定的生存文化观念和人格精神气质。

The national traditional culture which takes the Confucian culture as the core,not like the western society in the unique spirit of religious belief because of early Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasty respected ghost and deity and then West Zhou Dynasty changed into respecting humanity teaching. Then confucianist chose human-oriented morality of west Zhou Dynasty as basic though. It had an important effect on construction of the national cultural belief. It gradually formed the culture belief system of ethnic characteristics. Its mentality tendency was realistic believe and its content was natural reasonable value of real life and its supreme realm was that their faith was optimization realization of nature and man, man and man and individual. The unique national belief cultural system enventually became Chinese special life and cultural concept and personality spiritual temperament.