浅议汉以前嵩山仙道人物及宫观建设

On the Immortal Taoist Figures and Temple Construction in Songshan Mountain Before the Han Dynasty

嵩山是华夏文明的重要发祥地。早在旧石器时代,华夏祖先就在嵩山繁衍生息,留下众多的文化遗存。夏商周三代,嵩山是中国重要的经济文化中心和建都之地。秦汉时期,帝王开始巡祭五岳,中岳嵩山自然也受到青睐。东汉末期,道教孕育并产生,嵩山是重要的策源地,被道教称为第六洞天。对道教建立前的嵩山仙道人物和宫观建设进行梳理和研究,可以为研究嵩山道教的产生和发展提供重要帮助。

Songshan Mountain is one of the important birthplaces of Chinese civilization.As early as the Paleolithic periods,Chinese ancestors lived here,left numerous cultural relics.Songshan Mountain was the capital and an important economic and cultural center of Xia,Shang and Zhou Dynasties.During the Qin and Han dynasties,emperors began to hold religious sacrificial ceremonies in the Five Mountains,thus Songshan Mountain was favored by the emperors for its superior geographical location.As the cradle of the Taoism in the late Eastern Han Dynasty,Songshan Mountain was also hailed as one of the best thirty-six sacred places for Taoists.This paper focus on the immortal Taoist figures and the temple construction in Songshan Mountain before the establishment of Taoism,which is vital to the study of the emergence and development of Songshan Taoism.