天神崇拜:儒家的大自然敬畏思想

Worship of gods:The Reverence for Nature

对自然物、自然现象的困惑、恐惧,以自身类比方法,远古人想象出了种种神灵,产生了多神崇拜。夏商周时代,多神崇拜演变为统一至上神即天神崇拜。春秋末期,孔子创立儒学,接纳了天神崇拜观念;西汉中叶之初,董仲舒代表的儒家集天神崇拜观念之大成,创立了系统的天神崇拜思想体系。天神崇拜实质上是自然力崇拜、大自然崇拜,它凸显了儒家对大自然的敬畏思想。

The worship of gods, stemming from the primitive society, came into being in the Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties. At the end of Spring and Autumn Period, the worship of gods was carried forward by Confucious with the founding of Confucianism. Later in the Western Han Dynasty, Dong Zhongshu, a representative scholar in Confucianism, developed a complete theoretical system of gods worshipping based on previous achievement. The worship of gods was in essence the worship of natural power, which reveals the reverence for nature in Confucianism.