在国家与地方之间:普庵信仰的生根、扩散

Between the Central Government And Local Areas:Rooting And Spreading of the Pu'an Worship

普庵信仰根源于江西宜春,在明清时期向南方诸省扩散,形成了普庵神信仰圈。在普庵信仰民间化的过程中,地方官府、乡绅成为普庵信仰传播的推力,封建王朝对其也屡屡进行加封,普庵信仰成为国家控制地方社会的手段。而普庵信仰之所以被国家崇祀并成为国家正祀,正源于其本身所具备的文化功能:道德教化、安稳社会秩序。

Pu＇an worship originated in Yichun, Jiangxi, and spread to South China in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, forming the Pu＇ an belief circle.In the popularization process of Pu＇ an worship, the local authorities and local gentry became the main force to spread the Pu＇an worship; the central government also gave them ennoblement repeatedly, and the belief became a means to control the local society. Pu＇an worship became the national worship and then the formal worship, just because of its cultural function, moral education function and the function of steadying the social order.