殷商祖先神的农业神性

The Agricultural Godhood of Ancestor God in the Shang Dynasty

据甲骨卜辞及传世文献,殷商时期有祖先神配至上神"帝"的祭祀传统,商人认为祖先神具有影响农业生产的能力,故而在祭祀时向祖先神祈雨祈晴、求年求禾,以农业诉求为祭祀目的,使得殷商祖先神被赋予农业神的神性。

According to the oracle inscriptions and ancient books, the Shang Dynasty had the tradition that the ancestor god wastied to the supreme god. People believed that the ancestor god had the ability to infuence the agriculturalproduction, so they prayed to the ancestor god for rainy or sunny days, and for peace and harvest. The worship focusedl on agricultural appeals, which gave the Shang Dynasty ancestor a certain depree of agriculture godhood.