清代晋西北地区的农业自然灾害与民间信仰风俗关系

Relevance between Agricultural Natural Disasters in Northwest of Shanxi in the Qing Dynasty and Folk Belief Customs

有清一代晋西北地区自然灾害频发,其中主要以旱、涝灾害为主,蝗灾和霜冻灾害次之。面对频繁的自然灾害,民众在无力抵御的情况下,只得向神灵祈求。而边境之地的形势使其形成了自己独特的民间信仰风俗。同时,由于该地处于农牧交界地带,农业不甚发达,因此在农业灾害信仰上并没有形成统一的标准,而是出现了信仰的"多重性"与"功利性"。

In Northwest Shanxi province during the Qing Dynasty,natural disasters such as droughts and floods were very frequent,followed by locust plagues and frost disasters. Faced with the frequent natural disasters,unable to resist,the public had to pray to the gods. Its borderland geographic location also formed its own unique folk customs and beliefs. At the same time,because of its border on agriculture and animal husbandry,its farming was undeveloped,the folk belief in agriculture disasters did not have a unified standard but with multiplicity and utilitarian.