论关公信仰之“标准化”与“伪标准化”-历史文献学专业论文.docxVIP

万方数据 万方数据 Abstract The God is not only some kind of belief, it is a sense system, or it can be regarded as the symbolization and construction, for which different people may endow it with different meanings.The American scholar James L.Watson in his Standardizing the Gods: The Promotion of Tien Hou(Empress of Heaven) Along the South China Coast puts forward the concept of standardization of the gods, while another American scholar Michael Szonyi comes up with the concept of pseudo standardization to refute Watsons idea.I am deeply inspired by these two theories, and then I bring the standardization and pseudo standardization into the study of the belief in Guangong(a traditional Chinese warrior in the Three Kingdoms era) so as to interpret the features of traditional Chinese beliefs. The paper in chapter I introduces the belief in Guangong, the real Guangong in history and the historical development of the belief in Guangong. Chapter II discusses the promotion of the standardization of the belief in Guangong. It first tries to let us understand the concept of the standardization of the gods, then studies the promotion of standardizing the belief in Guangong, and finally analyzes and summarizes the significance of standardizing the belief in Guangong. Chapter III discusses the existing pseudo standardization in the standardization of the belief in Guangong. It first defines clearly the concept of pseudo ii standardization, then chooses the “Five Fiends” in the south of China and the “Fairy Fox” in the North of China as the typical cases from the historical facts that unorthodox sacrifices judged by the government are still worshiped and sacrificed under the cover of Guangong Temples to discuss the fact that Guangong Temples remain in name only, and analyzes profoundly the significance of “pseudo standardization” of the belief in Guangong by the comparative analysis of the Guangong and unorthodox worships in the eyes of all social classes. Chapter IV analyzes the caus