敦亲睦族——祠堂教化的社会功能及文化研究

The Traditional Root of Harmony——Social Civilizing Function and Cultural Studies of Family Ancestral Halls

祠堂是族人供奉祖先和祭祀的重要场所,是中国古代社会下特有的产物,是我国独特的文化形态,它的历史演变和我国农村文化建设的发展有着密切的联系。祠堂吸收了传统文化,凝聚了血亲文化,糅和了建筑文化,其建筑形式与构建是中国人民的伟大创造。笔者将祠堂的建筑文化、人文精神同社会管理和社会教化相结合,从社会学和社会心理学的角度去解读祠堂文化,探索祠堂建筑,以期寻找一个新的视角来解读古老的血缘宗亲、祠规家规等,为提高我国农村居民的道德水平、文化水平添砖加瓦,提升美丽乡村精神文明建设水平。

Ancestral hall is an important place for clansmen to worship ancestors. It is not only a unique product of ancient Chinese society, but also a unique cultural form of China. Its historical evolution is closely related to the development of rural cultural in China. The ancestral halls which formed on traditional culture, embodied blood relation, and combined local architecture cultural. Especially, the building form of ancestral half is a great creation of Chinese. By combing its building culture and humanistic spirit with the social management and social education, this article tries to interpret ancestral culture from sociology and social psychology perspectives, to explore the ancestral temple architecture, in order to find a new perspective to interpret the ancient blood relation and domestic discipline and family rules, etc. By doing this. it tries to improve the moral standard and culture level of rural residents, as a result of which, this research will contribute to the beautiful countryside construction and the rural spiritual civilization.