社神源流与民间社祀

The Origin of the God of Soil and the Folk Sacrifice

历史传说故事和文字共同展现了社会发展状况。随着生产力的提高,人们的社会价值观念也发生改变。文字记载、历史故事的变化,反映了社会从母系社会向父系社会的转变。在这一转变过程中,以对"社"的考察为例,从"社"创字起源的背景出发,探析一定时期内"社"祭在国家与地方的两种层面下是如何存在的,追溯社祭活动变化的历史。

Legends and characters show the state of social development. With the improvement of productivity,people's social values also changed. The changes of written records and historical stories show the transformation from the matriarchal society to the patriarchal society. In this transformation process,take the God of soil as an example,starting from the background of the origin of the word,the article makes an analysis of how the God of soil comes into being and develops in certain period of time under the two kinds of national and local levels to trace the history of the change of sacrificial activities.