先秦夷夏桑林崇拜与空桑地望考

Worship of Mulberry in the Ancient China's Central Plain and Ancient East Tribes in Pre-qin and the Research about Kongsang's Location

桑既是农业作物,还是夷夏文化中阴阳、男女关系的象征,根源于早期的生殖崇拜。桑林崇拜投射于上古地域命名的典型例子——空桑,是先秦早期东夷信仰中心,在中原和东夷中有着特殊的地位。传世文献中多有空桑,其地望大致在黄河北折以南至山东丘陵一带,是上古夷夏文化的交汇的重要地点和东夷民族研究的关键。

Mulberry is a kind of crop,and also is the symbol of Yin and Yang,and man and woman relationship based on reproduction worship in the early time in the culture of the ancient China ＇s central plain and ancient tribes in the east.The typical example influenced by the worship of mulberry-Kongsang,which was the center of the central plain and the early ancient east tribes＇ faith and had very special position in the two ethnic groups.Kongsang had been recorded many times in the literature and roughly it is located in the south of the lower reaches of the Yellow River to the Shandong hilly area.This is the intersection of the culture of the ancient China＇s central plain and ancient tribes in the east,and the the key of study about the latter.